Morning Snip:
Worth Doing
Louis Menand, writing in The New Yorker about yet another memoir by Dick Cavett, recalls the time that Norman Mailer showed up drunk.
As any sort of intellectual exchange, the show was a disaster. But it was great television. It gave viewers what they want from a talk show: the sense that anything might happen.
Elsewhere in the current issue, David Denby complains that Becky Fuller, the news producer played by Rachel McAdams in Morning Glory, “doesn’t do anything worth doing,” and, indeed, as we recall, Becky makes strenuous efforts to prevent her new co-anchor from showing up drunk.