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I think he used "your silly little camera" as an
excuse and in an effort to make me insignificant. Actually,if you read my
other posts, he actually answered my question "indirectly" by saying he was five
during pearl Harbor--which would make him 69 years old.
I really dislike people who are "uptight" about
their age. I actually thought he was in his eighties. Maybe I was
wrong. I guess so. Why can't "real people" be realistic about their
age. I'm 67 and make no bones about it. When I'm 80, I still won't
make no bones about it.
Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:30
AM
Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: "LIVE
AND UNCENSORED IN NEW YORK CITY"
I got a chance to meet with Cavett -- he seemed very nice and
open in person, just media-weary. I take it that he would have been glad
to speak with you, if not for you 'silly camera'.
On 11/18/05, Share
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Wow!
Fan-bloody-tastic!
Can't wait to see your vlog about it and congrats on
experiencing such
an unusual event.
Sorry to hear about Mr. Cavett. I
remember him, too and he was an
amazingly aware and articulate host.
cheers.
Share
www.rocknrolltv.net
--- In [email protected], Randolfe Wicker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> That was the title of an
event held this evening at Steven Kasher
Gallery, 521 W. 23rd St,
NYC. It was sponsored by a 501C group called
"The Creative
Coalition". Membership costs $250 a year. However, a
great art
exhibit consisting of body images in video can be seen for
free for a few
more days. I suggest you attend.
>
> I contacted them a
few hours before the event, said I was a vlogger
(someone who did video
and posted it on the Internet) and asked to be
put on the "list".
>
> I held my breath as I checked in downstairs. My name was on
the
list and I found myself mixing with the media elite. Catherine
Crier,
anchor of Court TV, was the moderator. The panel consisted
of
actor/comedian/writer Richard Belzer (Law & Order:SVU), Time
Blake
Nelson (Actor, Syiuana, Meet the Fockers, Minority Report, o
Brother,
Where Are Thou?), Dick Cavett (legendary Emmy Award winning talk
show
host) and Bill Devlin (a born-again Christian with enough sense
to
stay in the Democratic Party whom I had once debated on the issue
of
human reproductive cloning at Haverford College in
Pennsylvania).
>
> Thanks to my good Christian friend, Bill
Devlin, I was made aware of
the event and managed to get "in"--even
though there was a notice that
"press credentials" would be checked. I
took a Time Magazine with my
picture in it along to flash if I was
challenged. It proved not to be
necessary.
>
> I also urged
three other vloggers( Jay Dedman, Jonny Goldstein and
Adam Quirk) to join
me in a vloggers-take-on-the-establishment
exercise. Adam was
working. Jay and Jonny never got back to me. I
went
alone.
>
> I'm always amazed at how thin the "partition" is
between the plebian
world of everyday-vlogger-life and the glittering
world of famous
celebrities and people with real power.
>
>
So, there I was in the elite world of "blue activism" (???).
There
was an open bar (always to be avoided) and orderves enough to make
you
feel totally elite.
>
> On the walls were ads, fabulous
and sexy ads, which you'd have to
spend half a lifetime thumbing through
magazines to find. I never
knew so many sexy and hot ads
existed. I got to film them all for my
vlog (or vlogs) about this
event.
>
> I handed out my pink slips promoting "Join the Media
Revolution"
with links to Freevlog and this site. Of course, I
plugged my own
site and email address at the end.
>
>
Waiting in line at the bathroom, I gave my pink fliers to two of
the
organizers of the event. Events on the wall of the gallery
looked
very "liberal" and "leftist" to me. No problem
there.
>
> I joined the audience and stood up against a wall
near the front
filming the entire event. It was quite
fascinating. I filmed famous
people telling stories about famous
people...including Dick Cavet
talking about how Yoko Ono and John Lennon
who sang a song entitled (I
believe) "Women are the niggers of the
world"--and how that caused
censorship which he avoided with a lead-in
that got more complaints
than the song did....etc, etc.
>
>
Well, after it was all over, I got to "smooze" with the celebs.
I
gave Catherine Crier a pink flier and told her that "vlogging was
the
new revolution" which was bound to raise interesting new legal
issues
in the near future. At least it got into her purse.
>
> Then I turned my camera on Click Cavett, one of my 'old heroes'
of
television. I couldn't resist the urge to say: "Mr.
Cavett, I vlog
and put my videos on the Internet. Could I ask you a
'politically
incorrect' question?"
>
> Cavett looked open so
I popped the question.
>
> "How old are you?" I asked.
>
> "How old do you think I am?" Cavett replied.
>
>
"You're older than me (I'm 67). You have to be at least 75. (I
was
being kind. He's in his 80s I suspect)."
>
> "Oh,
'you and your silly little camera' (italics mine)" Cavett
replied and
moved on without answering my question.
>
> So, tonight one of
my 'idols' died. The man who was always upfront
and free and who
took political correctness to task was 'too
traditionally' uptight to
tell me his real age. That was really sad,
for me.
>
>
Bill Devlin, my Christian friend, who had enabled me to attend, made
fun
of me for being an Immortalist when he realized I was the fellow
who had
been filming him all evening.
>
> It was a great event and I'll
be doing a vlog about it. You'll have
to wait a couple
days.
>
>
> Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
>
>
Videographer, Writer, Activist
> Advisor: The Immortality
Institute
> Hoboken, NJ
> http://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/
>
201-656-3280
>
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