{"id":11791,"date":"2016-09-11T22:10:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T22:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2016-09-11T22:10:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T22:10:45","slug":"is-that-the-way-you-said-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/11\/is-that-the-way-you-said-it\/","title":{"rendered":"is that the way you said it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11792\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Katharine_Hepburn.jpg\" alt=\"photo of katharine hepburn and dick cavett. courtesy of open culture\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Katharine_Hepburn.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Katharine_Hepburn-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>dick cavett, what a gent. from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/05\/t-magazine\/entertainment\/dick-cavett-seth-meyers-interview.html?ref=todayspaper\">interview<\/a> with seth meyers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Cavett:<\/strong> There\u2019s not much worse than a \u201cplug-ola guest\u201d who is so tired that he tells the same story he just told the segment before, with one eyelid drooping down to here. The best at repeating himself was Gore Vidal, because his delivery was so delicious you didn\u2019t mind hearing something a second time. The great moment for me on the Hepburn show was when I decided to poke her a bit. I said, \u201cDo you remember me as an actor?\u201d And she just stopped and said, \u201cI\u2019ve been told I should.\u201d I said, \u201cWe were in a play together. Stratford, Connecticut, \u2018The Merchant of Venice.\u2019 I had one line: \u2018Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house, and desires to speak with you both.\u2019\u2009\u201d She looked at me and said, \u201cIs that the way you said it?\u201d It was one of the longest laughs I didn\u2019t get.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>did you know that dick cavett had a romance with janis joplin? (or so implies this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/janis-joplin-janis-little-girl-blue-about-the-film\/6284\/\">documentary<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dick cavett, what a gent. from his interview with seth meyers: Cavett: There\u2019s not much worse than a \u201cplug-ola guest\u201d who is so tired that he tells the same story he just told the segment before, with one eyelid drooping down to here. The best at repeating himself was Gore Vidal, because his delivery was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11793,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions\/11793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}