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Groucho Gave Secretary High Marx: Author Steve Stoliar Recalls His Days as Groucho Marx's Secretary

Steve Karras | Posted 04.07.2013 | Comedy
Steve Karras

Stoliar's storied tenure as Groucho Marx's secretary is tempered with highs and lows, bookended by the psychotic Erin Fleming -- Groucho's young and mercurial life manager and companion who hitched her wagon to the star in his declining years.

Mighty Movie Podcast: Dick Cavett on Duck Soup

Dan Persons | Posted 01.09.2013 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

The late '60s had its share of momentous events: Nixon attaining the presidency; the manned moon landing; and most important of all, Dick Cavett interviewing the 78-year-old, and still blisteringly funny, Groucho Marx on his late-night TV show.

Hamptons Journal: The History of Art and the Big Apple Circus

Regina Weinreich | Posted 11.03.2012 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

Audrey Flack and the History of Art String Band offers a crash course in such giant art figures as Caravaggio, Camille Claudel, Lee Krasner, Van Gogh, Picasso, Mary Cassat, and Jackson Pollock.

What the Vidal/Mailer Feud Taught Us: When In Doubt, Laugh

Nick Kolakowski | Posted 08.05.2012 | Books
Nick Kolakowski

He was neither the first nor last intellectual jailed for heretical writings, and in some respects he proved lucky: Governments and other powers have a longstanding habit of killing thinkers whose ideas threaten the status quo.

Gore Vidal (1925-2012): He Did It His Way (And Loved Every Minute)

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 08.01.2012 | Books
Jesse Kornbluth

Vidal had no self-doubt. He used his legendary intellect in the service of opinions that drew blood. Feuds thrilled him. And he never lost the swagger that comes from knowing that -- at least in his youth -- he was a stunner. Want a guided tour?

Happy Birthday to the World's Weirdest Comic: Professor Irwin Corey, the Gibberish Maven

Myra Chanin | Posted 09.29.2012 | Weird News
Myra Chanin

At the ripe age of either 98 (per Wikipedia) or 100 (per his faded driver's license), Professor Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost Authority," is still a man of many words, usually multisyllabic and unintelligible.

WATCH: Hilarious Book Trailer Features Dick Cavett And Malcolm Gladwell

Posted 05.17.2012 | Books

Comedian and musician Dave Hill has written a memoir. Aside from comedy and music, he shares stories on girlfriends, hockey and "Misguided Attempts at...

Elaine Kaufman Memorial: The Salon and Its Resaurateur Remembered

Regina Weinreich | Posted 02.01.2012 | Home
Regina Weinreich

When Elaine Kaufman died last December 3, she left a city of broken hearts. For months, "Elaine's" lingered on, a nostalgic haven for "regulars," but many still had to admit, Elaine's was simply not the same without Elaine.

WATCH: John Hodgman's New Book Gets Celebrity-Packed Promo

Posted 12.26.2011 | Comedy

First there was The Areas of My Expertise. Then came More Information Than You Require. And now there is That Is All, the final book in John Hodgman's...

Obama's The "Dick Cavett President"

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.19.2011 | Politics
Andy Ostroy

I love Dick Cavett. He's a brilliant, irreverent thinker with a uniquely dry, sardonic, sarcastic wit and deadpan delivery. Qualities that make for a terrific writer, humorist and interviewer, but unfortunately not a United States president.

Hamptons Journal: Tennessee Williams at 100, Dick Cavett at _____

Regina Weinreich | Posted 10.08.2011 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

The weekend had audiences waxing wistful about the good old days of television talk shows when you could catch a witty hour-and-a-half interview with a listen-worthy celebrity.

David Hyde Pierce Plays The Perfect Host

Regina Weinreich | Posted 08.21.2011 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

When a wanted bank robber stumbles into his L. A. house as he prepares for a dinner party, Pierce is perfect as victim, but then who is the more dangerous?

Tribeca Film Festival Exclusive Interview: Thomas Dekker Rises to the Angel's Crest with Cinema VƩritƩ

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 07.04.2011 | Entertainment
Cynthia Ellis

Thomas Dekker is almost offensively photogenic. But what makes Dekker fascinating is his complete transformative power as an actor.

The Agenda: Mel Brooks And Dick Cavett, Guillermo Del Toro At Amoeba

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

Go for laughs with Dick Cavett and Mel Brooks at the Saban Theatre or screams with Guillermo Del Toro and his new film, Cronos. Or transcend both with...

Dick Cavett: Get This Man a Show!

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Tamar Abrams

Dick Cavett does his homework. He's a witty conversationalist. His writing is as sharp, witty and engaging as his talk show hosting was. All this begs the question: Why is this man not currently hosting a TV show?

Literary World Loses Jill Johnston at 81

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Georgianne Nienaber

Author and critic Jill Johnston is remembered most in some circles as one of the first intelligent and honest champions of the lesbian and gay movements of the early 1970s.

The (Self) Killing Of Brother Dee: A Memory Of The Late Simon Dee

Martin Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Martin Lewis

Simon Dee was Britain's equivalent of Dick Cavett -- for a heartbeat in the Sixties -- until he self-destructed.

"Kidlessness" or, It's Not About the Children

Richard Laermer | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Richard Laermer

As you know, unruly children make the kidless nuts! Pals complain about their messy homes all the time. I tell them: "I didn't tell you to have them."

YouTube and MySpace Leaves "No Space" for a Generation

Francesca Biller | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Francesca Biller

A generation suckled on the need to be constantly seen and heard leaves a generation that is heard and seen, but doesn't listen much.

The "N" Word on Network Television

Samara O'Shea | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Samara O'Shea

Thanks to the First Amendment, there's not a single word in the English language that I should be afraid to say. But I am -- and the more afraid we are to use a word the more control that word has.

Dick Cavett Talks About His Depression

AP | NATE JENKINS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

LINCOLN, Neb. — Funny man and former talk show host Dick Cavett came home to talk about depression, what he called "the worst agony devised for ...

Dick Cavett Knocks Today's Late-Night Hosts: "Back In The Day, We Had Real Men"

New York Post | Page Six | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Dick Cavett doesn't have much sympathy for today's coddled late-night talk-show hosts, who need teams of writers to be funny. At Julian Schnabel's sho...