Richard Burton: Potential for Alcoholic Tendencies And Depression | The Dick Cavett Show
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- Richard Burton shares his struggles in acting, including discomfort with physical contact in love scenes and his appreciation for the Welsh accent. He discusses the theme of choosing between fortune and adversity, his drinking habits, which may lead to a morose and hungover state, and the possibility of becoming an alcoholic.
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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Imagine a modern US talk show host just listening and giving the guest space, rather than just going through a script.
I could listen to this man speak all day, he holds my attention, still fascinates me
What a legend Richard Burton is
Richard was beautiful ❤
I noticed that Burton is not smoking. In older interviews he chain smokes. Fascinating man and great actor.
He is so talented, handsome and elegant.
Dick Cavett is one of the greats, along with Richard Burton, thank you for this gem💫
His speech to Sinatra and his reciting of "do not go gently in to that good night" are two of my favourite off stage/film things of Burton.
I’m curious . What has brought your attention to Burton , and if I may what is your age?
Cavett brought the best out of his guest. He was always so well prepared and he possessed encyclopedic knowledge about so many topics and his interviewing style just naturally put his guest at ease.
It seemed so easy though, you know? He didn't seem prepared. Cavett's interviews should be treasured.
Interviewers and interviewees like this seem rare these days. I suspect the former is the most important part. Compare him or Parkinson to someone like Piers Morgan, who prefers the sound of his own voice to those he interviews, and the difference is astonishing. I rewatch these old interviews so much, because so much more is said about them and the human condition.
You are quite right-older interviewers were more willing to listen to their guests and allow them to speak at length.
But modern guests also have very little to say. They simply don't have the depth of life experience that people of Burton's time did.
He could read the instruction manual to a dvd player and make it sound great. He has this tough look but also a fragility about himself too.
This ambivalence is typical scorpio. He was really fascinating and a great actor.
What a speech.He could humble a king and ascend a beggar.
The fantastic eloquent honest Richard Burton ❤
Why they don't do interviews like this anymore. We are living in cheap boring times
4:20-7:30 is such a personal definition on alcoholism
Burton's monologue in Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds' is something else entirely. His voice was, his presence was quite unique.
His portrayal of O'Brian in 1984 was stunning in his calm sadistic affect.A genius.
R.I.P. Mr Burton.
Dick Cavett was good at asking interesting people interesting questions. But Dick was great at getting interesting people to dig deeper inside themselves as they sat beside him. Maybe it was his bedside manner?
Not sure… but I miss the Dick Cavett show almost as much as I miss living in an America that valued the Dick Cavett show.
You are so right-we need a Dick Cavett now,when we are living through such troubled times.
This interview was from July 1980.
THANK YOU.... !! I was wondering when this was. Appreciate it.
I will say that once you stop drinking, it's just life without drinking. The cravings and urges get weaker the desire fainter and life fills that void with generally speaking other interests ranging from the beneficial and uplifting to the vain and outrageous. Life is and being alive is an incredible experience. Celebrate yourself and all the love and goodness you are capable of giving. If you do drink do not drive even though it's really fun to do so ❤
Wow! What a remarkable man. ❤
I think he was at his most interesting and sympathetic here.
Totally agree with both the gentlemen on screen. German is a beautiful spoken language and when Richard started 'To be or not to be' - well perfection!! Swoonworthy indeed! 😍
Yes,to hear that famous soliloquy in German is wonderful.
Beautiful man!
Superb!
I just ordered the book Talk Show by Cavett and I’m looking forward to reading it with Cavett’s voice in my head.
Take it easy
Richard is 54 years old here. Remembering that he's made up heavily for the tv you can still see the effect of decades of drinking. He always had a slightly haunted quality in those eyes but he looks like he's been through it in those recent years and it's taken its toll on him. He died only 4 years after this was recorded.
He had an operation at one point and they had to scrape alcohol from his spine.
Richard Burton was considered to be the natural successor to Laurence Olivier but his perceived failure to live up to those expectations disappointed some critics and colleagues; his heavy drinking added to his image as a great performer who had wasted his talent.
Deeply sensitive man Richard ...eyes 👀 say
Seemed to do fine on Cleopatra!
3:10 Burton does Shrekspeare!!!
German is a beautiful language
agreed
Quite true.
Cavett misunderstands the anecdote about Ferdinand. Ferdinand the Bull is a children's story about a gentle, even effeminate bull. "Synopsis. In a countryside residing in Spain, a number of young bulls romp and play, butting their heads with each other. All except Ferdinand, who takes more delight in sitting under a tree and smelling the flowers. His mother tries to get him to reconsider, but Ferdinand continues to go about smelling the flowers."
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That audience though. Why do simple-minded people laugh so much?
Why do judgmental people not understand what nervous laughter is? 🤔
Agree. Was surprised to hear laughter as he was discussing alcoholism. He addressed it well by saying it is not a laughing matter soon after some laughter began. Perhaps at that time society wasn't as open to discussing these things, and it was in fact nervous laughter.
@pereg - I agree. I couldn't understand the laughter either.
It wasn't that many people laughing. I would presume that out of an entire studio audience, at least that many people are active alcoholics. Perhaps they were laughing as recognition or fear. 🤷
It's nervous laughter. It seems so awkward, but some people react this way.
People laugh at the most inappropriate time.
I suppose because they hope it doesn't happen to them nervousness
Can't be touched? Is that what Liz said?
He doesn’t look well here four years before his death. He looks quite depressed. Contrast this interview with his Parkinson interview only 6 years before.
I'm disappointed he didn't ask Richard about when he discovered the source of the Nile or traveled to Mecca.
Wrong Burton. But it would have been amazing if he had played him.
Boxer ...or 800 lb gorilla 🦍 in alley way
Burton looks thin here.