The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) Janis Joplin/Raquel Welch/Douglas Fairbanks Jr./Chet Huntley (1970) User Reviews

Wonderful Crosstalk

[babyfreen · 8/10 · 25 August 2022]

On the Carson show, once the next guest was introduced, you rarely heard a peep out of the previous guests. Not so the Cavett show, and this episode in particular. Everyone joins in. After Chet Huntley is introduced, the subject of discussion is broadcast journalism, all have their say, concluding with a spirited exchange between Joplin and Welch. I miss this show.

Oh to be Dick Cavett!

[blockerlover · 10/10 · 30 May 2007]

Seated in-between this installment's eclectic guests, Janis Joplin and Raquel Welch, Dick Cavett wryly comments they were all once roommates in college. This glorious chat-session exemplifies how low TV talk shows have sunk in the last two decades--and how we, as the TV-viewing public, have been shortchanged in terms of quality, smart humor, and interesting conversation. Joplin, decked out in a frilly thrift-store ensemble, is quiet and contemplative, an intense listener who had savvy, though soft-spoken opinions. For instance, as Welch is attempting to sell her stillborn controversial sex-change comedy "Myra Breckinridge", Joplin tells her, "You looked good in it...but the movie's too choppy. I couldn't follow it...it kept changing." Welch, far from being rattled, winks and tells Janis, "Well the whole movie's about change." And the audience is hip enough to be in on the joke.