Dick Cavett - I knew I loved that guy [View all]

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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/03/dick-cavett-perfectly-sums-up-why-we-despise-ayn-rand-and-why-the-right-loves-her/

CAVETT: … You can piss away valuable hours of your life reading Ayn Rand—her wretched appeal to the young, her wretched writing, her wretched person.

She was supposed to be on my show; I was kind of sorry she wasn’t, because I was kind of laying for her. I did not succumb, as a kid, to being enthused by Ayn Rand, and that sense of power, as every kid was at one time until they outgrew it. The old bag sent over a list of fifteen conditions for appearing with me, or for appearing with anyone, I guess. One of them was, ‘There will be no disagreeing with Ms. Rand’s philosophy.’

GREEN: You’re kidding.

CAVETT: No! I wrote at the bottom of the list, to be sent back to her, ‘There will be no Ms. Rand, either.'”

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My cousin was on Cavett in the 70's.
He worked at a TV station in Greenwood , MS and snagged an interview with Margaret Mitchell who was in hiding with friends there. Cavett bought the interview and had him on his show.

I was talking to another cousin (his older brother) during the holidays to meet my wife. Of course I brought up the interview. I knew most of the details except that I hadn't known that Cavett had had John up to his home in NY for about a week preparing for the show.