Tennessee Williams On His Obsession With Death | The Dick Cavett Show

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  • @averytaylor2001
    @averytaylor2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Can you believe conversations like this used to happen?! Now we have Jimmy Fallon 🥺

    • @kingy002
      @kingy002 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Fallon, Letterman, Kimmel, Ferguson, Winfrey, DeGeneres....they are all the same sadly.

    • @barflytom3273
      @barflytom3273 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      avery taylor. ı get what you are saying but this is pretty bad too. you don't just make conversation when you have a guest like Tennessee Williams. what a waste.

    • @user-nq9gz4xf7f
      @user-nq9gz4xf7f 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Dick Cavett was the best, still alive i think. His interviews are a treasure.

    • @kingy002
      @kingy002 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-nq9gz4xf7f His TH-cam channel is superb

    • @jackyoung2110
      @jackyoung2110 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kingy002 at least Ferguson is funny

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    “Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.......................

    • @Mike-rw2nh
      @Mike-rw2nh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The above is such an eloquent description of psychological time.

    • @ChefSheefluciano
      @ChefSheefluciano 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      🧐🧐🧐🤦🏾🤦🏾damn,he's right.

    • @Lyndanet
      @Lyndanet 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      great quote!

  • @101......
    @101...... 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Dick Cavett really did interviewed with some of the most iconic and influential people of the 20th century. Could you believe it? _Tennessee Williams_ , He's up there along with two other greatest American playwrights of that century - _Eugene O'Neill_ and _Arthur Miller._
    I kind of consider these interviews as modern historical artefacts.

    • @deirdre108
      @deirdre108 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Gore Vidal/Norman Mailer interview/slugfest was epic!

    • @ChefSheefluciano
      @ChefSheefluciano 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I totally agree

    • @serafine4895
      @serafine4895 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@deirdre108lol 😂😂

  • @tp8773
    @tp8773 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    what a fantastic voice

    • @stjohnssoup
      @stjohnssoup 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Marlon Brando copied it

  • @catsonnets
    @catsonnets 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    My favorite playwright. The man wrote beautifully.

    • @kelman727
      @kelman727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Until the booze destroyed his talent.

    • @davidcawrowl3865
      @davidcawrowl3865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Glass Menagerie can still leave me shaken (the stage).

    • @CuckLordSinbad
      @CuckLordSinbad 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kelman727 did he not drink throughout all his writings? or when did he start really boozing?

    • @101......
      @101...... 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CuckLordSinbad "Write Drunk and Edit Sober." forgot about the author's name who quote that. Was it Hemingway?

    • @degsbabe
      @degsbabe หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kelman727 Have you got anything worth destroying....?

  • @sisterearthful
    @sisterearthful 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I enjoyed watching Dick Cavett chat with Tennessee William's obsession with the brass bed, etc. Dick Cavett always seemed to make his guests feel comfortable.

  • @superfuzzymomma
    @superfuzzymomma ปีที่แล้ว +15

    People of 2023, please take a glimpse at intelligent, civil conversation.

  • @isabelnunes6334
    @isabelnunes6334 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Dick has had amazing interviews with th most iconic people of the XX century.

  • @OctPSfever
    @OctPSfever 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love to be his friend in another world...

  • @jadezee6316
    @jadezee6316 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    how wonderful...for someone to have lived with that court yard as part of their life....no one takes the time to appreciate such a thing anymore.......every loss just makes life worse.....

    • @kingy002
      @kingy002 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "no one takes the time to appreciate such a thing anymore". What a bizarre comment.

    • @geneobrien8907
      @geneobrien8907 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kingy002 It seems that with too many people, their first instinct is to be didactic. They don't think before speaking or typing, they create a strawman or a fictitious scenario and sermonize about it as if they were an authority.

  • @davidcawrowl3865
    @davidcawrowl3865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "You said you had comes to terms with death...What did that for you?". The perfect question from the perfect interviewer.

    • @jimnewcombe7584
      @jimnewcombe7584 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The perfect question? It barely makes sense! In fact the choice of words borders on the illogical. What did what for what?

  • @ancientname
    @ancientname 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Tennessee is engaging without even trying. It's as easy for him as drinking a cup of water.

  • @theaterobscura
    @theaterobscura 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I visited a museum in NOLA, and the highlight was a section that stated "There really was a street car named 'Desire'" and displayed photographs of said streetcar in use, in addition to biographical info on Williams.

    • @christineleblond7777
      @christineleblond7777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’ve seen a pic of the street car on TH-cam with the name Desire on it. Not sure where . I think it was a video in Tennessee Williams.

  • @thomaspiccirillo6820
    @thomaspiccirillo6820 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I WENT TO HIS MEMORIAL ON MARCH 25,1983 AT THE SCHUBERT THEATRE-JESSICA TANDY DID THE MOON LAKE CASINO MONOLOGUE-"TENN" WAS WELL LOVED BY BROADWAY -IT WAS A GREAT TRIBUTE TO A GREAT WRITER -RIP THOMAS LANIER WILLIAMS

  • @user-nq9gz4xf7f
    @user-nq9gz4xf7f 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love his accent, is it affected or a true southern accent, i suppose that accent is lessened nowadays. He was a rare bird. He lived to be 71 despite severe alcoholism.

  • @taylorh1020
    @taylorh1020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    It's sad that he didn't get to be buried at sea, but was in fact buried under the religion he just said he didn't believe in and is now resting in St. Louis.

    • @Powertuber1000
      @Powertuber1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Which cemetery in St Louis?

    • @taylorh1020
      @taylorh1020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Powertuber1000 It's the Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis

    • @Powertuber1000
      @Powertuber1000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@taylorh1020 Thanks, I live about 20 miles away.

    • @taylorh1020
      @taylorh1020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Powertuber1000 That's cool! I've been there a few times and had NO idea. Even if he isn't happy at least it's a cool fact for people that live in the Midwest.

    • @thehouseofcm
      @thehouseofcm 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      But then people wouldn't be able to visit his grave.

  • @clintonsmith5163
    @clintonsmith5163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I believe the pirate that Cavett was referring to was Dominique You (1775-1830.)

  • @jm-rf7kl
    @jm-rf7kl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    That's the New Orleans I'd like to visit.

    • @trishachamberlain5692
      @trishachamberlain5692 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      j m sorry. Katrina took that away. Gentrification has also obliterated that city. Progress, a sometimes awful concept.

    • @Plantlady70
      @Plantlady70 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’ still exists. Come see us.

    • @themysteriousdomainmoviepalace
      @themysteriousdomainmoviepalace 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@trishachamberlain5692 Its funny how these disasters often result in new building projects.... wars too.

  • @RobboCombs
    @RobboCombs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am 77 America has slipped so far in my lifetime...I am a Vietnam Vet; when I got back home; I couldnt recognize America...

  • @lepetitchat123
    @lepetitchat123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "His brother Dakin Williams arranged for him to be buried at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, where his mother is buried"
    Too bad his wishes were not respected

  • @pattiwinn5217
    @pattiwinn5217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    American Icon

  • @bytheway1031
    @bytheway1031 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tennessee Williams🎂03-26-2023

  • @timothystephenson2498
    @timothystephenson2498 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:12, Sounded like he said, "Sex and the city,'' like the show. What a strange, but yet interesting man this was. I discovered him through a caricature character of him through watching the show King of The Hill on June 16th, 2022, at around 6:07AM, which was precisely the time that I wrote this comment as well, yes. Have a wonderful day, and a happy life, my dear.

  • @roxanneandrew530
    @roxanneandrew530 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Imagine being ten years old and watching The Dick Cavett and Merv Griffin Shows interview all these important people?

  • @NxDoyle
    @NxDoyle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    How could Tennessee Williams not have known about Delphine Lalaurie's house on Royal?

  • @Krawberry
    @Krawberry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This has to be where Seth Macfarlane got the voice for Stewie

  • @Gannooch
    @Gannooch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other ones.

  • @kyilmaz2
    @kyilmaz2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love Dick Cavett for bringing Tenesee WIlliams to me...who I never heard before. I watch Dicks interviews with interesting people on you tube. For some reason Verizon Fios took the channel that had dick on off....and court TV...bad moves Verizon Fios.

  • @tp8773
    @tp8773 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Tennessee sorta sounds like a southern Bob Dylan

    • @ModMokkaMatti
      @ModMokkaMatti 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He just wants to lay on his big brass bed.

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But Tennessee isnt a fraud.

  • @Frankincensedjb123
    @Frankincensedjb123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Why people focus on life when we're dead for an eternity is beyond me.

    • @JBJB-uk7xu
      @JBJB-uk7xu 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow! I thought I was the only one who felt that way.

    • @thomaspiccirillo6820
      @thomaspiccirillo6820 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Frankincensed I AGREE BUT FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN CAN TRIGGER SUCH AN INFINITE INSECURITY

    • @bradpenley
      @bradpenley 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Out of sight, out of mind. Some people only see to the end of the visible. God is good.

    • @kelman727
      @kelman727 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      bradpenley
      Religions are advertising agencies for a product that doesn’t exist.

    • @ModMokkaMatti
      @ModMokkaMatti 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bradpenley Dog is good. god is nothing.

  • @michelez715
    @michelez715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Too much Cavett, not enough Tennessee.

    • @peterdavino4408
      @peterdavino4408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @michelle/ twas always the case. He just can't stop editorializing.

  • @thefakenewsnetwork8072
    @thefakenewsnetwork8072 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Long live democratic socialism and freedom

  • @danielwhittaker695
    @danielwhittaker695 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    WHAT A DAMN LEGEND!!!!! BUT I SWEAR IN MY 17 YEARS ALIVE I DONT THINK IVE EVER SEEN A MORE DRUNK MAN IN MY LIFE HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @blanchefan
      @blanchefan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't think Tennessee was drunk here. I think he was bored with Cavett's lackluster questions. I was.

    • @mrogrady2227
      @mrogrady2227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Jesus christ....you obviously haven't seen many drunk people then 🙄

    • @jefolson6989
      @jefolson6989 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He is sober compared to some interview he did. One with Studs Terkel, Tennessee gets drunker and drunker, you can hear the ice in the glass and the pour. By the end he was too slurred to continue.

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      17 and ignorant

  • @kristofthibaud8491
    @kristofthibaud8491 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dick needs a new Ken Doll hairdo

  • @blanchefan
    @blanchefan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Dick Cavett, who has conducted some fine interviews (like K. Hepburn) was certainly not up to par here. Cavett might as well have been talking with his Aunt Tillie or someone--rather than America's master playwright. He certainly didn't do any homework. Oh well, I'm glad Tennessee looked good and seemed to enjoy himself.

    • @user-bx9dd7bd2t
      @user-bx9dd7bd2t 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I disagree respectfully,
      I thoroughly enjoyed
      this conversation.
      and it's incisive
      entertaining conversational
      easy going style
      ,that Mr.Cavett,deploys,
      he allows the playwright
      to be open and candid
      and relaxed enough
      to reveal sides
      of his character
      and personality,in.a
      free flowing manner.
      Hands down he remains
      the interviewer,
      that can carefully
      and entertainingly,
      make a interview
      informative and entertaining.
      He had,and still,
      doesn't
      have peers of his caliber.I
      Im only happy to have seen,
      heard and appreciated
      the rarified artistry
      that Mr.Cavett has done
      to enrich a few moments
      of our time,
      in a most satisfying way.
      A true artist and raconteur.
      🙏🇺🇸📺🎤🏆

    • @blanchefan
      @blanchefan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@user-bx9dd7bd2t I too am an admirer of Dick Cavett. It's just that I'm a much greater admirer of Tennessee Williams, and would liked to have heard more from him about his art. But there are time limitations; I guess they both did the best the could under the circumstances. By the way, I hope you've seen the long interview Cavett did with K. Hepburn. He worshiped her, and it may be his finest interview. She was brilliant and witty and funny. It's in two parts, both done in 1973.

    • @user-bx9dd7bd2t
      @user-bx9dd7bd2t 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blanchefan
      Well said,
      enjoy your spring,
      and God Bless.🙏

  • @belamoure
    @belamoure 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Bland interview another missed targets.

  • @somethingyousaid5059
    @somethingyousaid5059 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    So what did Tennessee?
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    The same thing that Arkansas.
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    • @danielwhittaker695
      @danielwhittaker695 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      i thought he saw a William...........

    • @vijaynair2403
      @vijaynair2403 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My question is, what did Delaware to the game?
      I heard it was a New Jersey.

    • @somethingyousaid5059
      @somethingyousaid5059 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha ha. That's pretty good. I hadn't heard that one before.

  • @martitinkovich4489
    @martitinkovich4489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nothing in this interview indicating William's obsession w/ death. What claptrap these titles are.