Dick Van Dyke & Alcoholism: Breaking the Stigma on Addiction and Seeking Help | The Dick Cavett Show
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Explore Dick Van Dyke's candid conversation about alcoholism. In this revealing interview, he challenges the stigma surrounding the disease, discusses the true nature of alcohol addiction, and shares personal insights into his journey of seeking help.
Date aired - November 14th 1974
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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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Hope Dick is enjoying life at 97, to the fullest
I love how ahead of the time Dick Van Dyke, was speaking about that so informatively, cohesively, real and looking at it as a disease and talking about the stigma of how people had, have about the subject. Him making the difference of the many ways of being an alcoholic, instead of the old stumbling drunks cliches people had then. Essentially he was a functioning alcoholic before the term was coined and he explained it perfectly. I love how Dick Cavett always listened, and asked the right questions, interesting questions
The level of the all around awareness is so refreshing ❤🙏🏾
Such a brave person to put words on this❤ you got it Dick
Dick VanDyke ❤
Sobering interview..
Great interview
He is talking about how alcoholism is an addiction & a disease, I live in a part of the country where people think that drug addicts & houseless people have a problem with their moral character (its messed up).
This was in the 70s that he is talking about alcoholism and drugs as a health issue.
We *still* do not have people in churches (pastors) & social workers who agree with that!
Dick Van Dyke is one of the best things to happen to show business. All his great movies, and his show with Mary Tyler Moore,and that great cast they had, makes him a national treasure🌟❤️
Thankful for all the work that’s been done on alcoholism and mental health. It’s not just physical, it is very much connected to your brain
This has helped me get sober. Thanks
Absolutely insane that Dick Van Dyke is here in the 70s with a white beard and gray hair on the Dick Cavett show and they're both still alive??? That's crazy.
I’m not sure what you mean, but Dick Van Dyke was only forty-eight when this show was aired. Beards typically start going gray much earlier than hair on the top of the head. The young are not often aware of this because not all men (and no women) have beards, and there’s a strong temptation among those that do to shave their beards off when they start going white. Anyway, Dick Cavett was thirty-seven when this show was aired. Neither Dick was old. They’re both old now, of course, and both have lived well past average life expectancy (especially Van Dyke), but not to the extent that it’s all that remarkable. My mother lived until she was ninety-seven (at home, still sharp, and still working at what she did), and she drank and smoked heavily almost all of her life.
This is a really great video, the sort of thing that could be used as an educational tool, this not some boring lecturer telling people what's what, but an interesting person who has been there, and knows.
Interestingly when he was in the Columbo film Negative Reaction, he has a line refering to alcohol where he says, "I'd offer you something, but I don't drink", i'm sure that is a reference to him in real life, a slight 4th wall thing.
I ❤ Dick Van Dyke is still alive this loved it.
Wonderful interview and message. Thank you, Dick Van Dyke love❤
DICK VAN DYKE JUST TURNED 99 YEARS OF AGE AND HAS COME THROUGH ANOTHER HORRIFYING ORDEAL WITH THE RAGING WILDFIRES IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD IN CALIFORNIA. STILL SHARP AS A TACK THOUGH! HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUNGSTER!
I truly can’t believe he is still alive and he is in very good health. He is currently 99 years old! Mr. Dyke was born December 13 1925 he’s going to be around for a very long time ❤😊
I love his insight about himself as a drinker 😀 I've been sober since 1997 from the drink & weed myself & understand his depth & insight 😀 & even from the addiction to nicotine 😀 which I've been clean from for 16 year's 🙏
Maybe it was Mary Poppins, but I always loved this guy
When he says at 11:27 that now that he is free of it he doesn’t have any desire to drink suggests he may not in fact be an alcoholic!
Great interview. Is there even a TV show on today that would have such an interview? Maybe Drew Barrymore?
Dick reminds so much of the CPM developer Gary kildall
Which year was this..
14 November 1974...it's in the description
Tragically, America is still drowning in that swill.
“Ever time you get drunk, you lose 10,000 brain cells” Wow!
If he had lived to 68, like many back then, he would of died 30 yrs ago. Point being 30 yrs is a long time.
What?
What does “would of” mean?
I was drunk when I wright the post, but I leave its as a reminder.@@jeffryphillipsburns
Gary Null, who counseled thousands of people and celebrities for free said calling yourself a alcoholic is stupid.