Category / Television
1981 Time Warp
Vidal & Cavett vs. Mailer
It turns out that the Charlie Rose shows on Google Video are good for something. As an addendum to Boris Kachka’s Mailer enemies list, consider the following television history.
Rose interviews Cavett and plays an extended clip of the infamous Vidal-Mailer-Cavett showdown. It’s at the 29:18 mark. It starts as a smackdown between Vidal and Mailer, with New Yorker writer Janet Flanner also commenting upon the verbal melee. And then Mailer turns on Cavett and boasts of his giant intellect. Witness Cavett’s response. They don’t make television like this anymore.
Sorry, Charlie. You’re not one tenth the interviewer that Cavett was.
What is Russell T. Davies Doing to Chase These Great Actors Away?
BBC: “David Tennant is ‘committed’ to Doctor Who, the BBC insists, despite a report that he is leaving the sci-fi drama. The Sun claimed the actor, 35, planned to depart next year, in the middle of the fourth series of the hit programme. But he was currently filming the third series, a BBC spokeswoman said, adding that any episodes beyond that had yet to receive the go-ahead.”
Second Wind for Lost?
Brian K. Vaughan, the comic book writer behind the excellent Y: The Last Man, has been hired as Executive Story Editor for Lost.