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To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Richard Alva Cavett
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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.
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I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
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