Tag: Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett’s Criterion Closet Picks


I guess this is sayonara. By the way, you ask people what sayonara means and they say, “Well, it’s Japanese for goodbye.”
We don’t need this here, but I’m going to say it anyway. Sa-yo-nara. It’s three words. And, brace yourself, it means “if it must be so.” Isn’t that nice? See ya.

See also:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/a24t19/why_do_most_people_translate_sayonara_as_goodbye/

Check out a couple of his books, highly recommended:
Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Richard Burton on Alcoholism, Dick Cavett

“Nobody quite knows which drink it is that takes him over the edge of being merely a social or haughty, laughing drinker into a morose hungover wretched creature. Shakes and creaks and sweats and has nightmares and it’s always November and it’s raining and it’s three o’clock in the morning and there’s nowhere to go and you reach out for a cigarette and smoke and think of all the horrible things you’ve done in your life and all the shame all the shames you endured and suffer and the shame you gave other people no all the wrongs you’ve done other people.”