Clive James writes an appreciation of one of my favorite TV performers, Dick Cavett. It's a shame that it's been so long since television has found a place for Cavett. When you see some of the graceless, cloying hosts on cable these days, you wonder if it's his choice or everyone else's that there's no current Dick Cavett Show.
Mr. Cavett, by the way, is however now writing some sort of blog or column about the language of politics (or maybe it's the politics of language) for The New York Times. But it's in their online "pay" section, to which I no longer subscribe so I haven't seen it yet. Someone let me know if it's any good, which it probably is.