Dick Van Dyke & Alcoholism: Breaking the Stigma on Addiction and Seeking Help

Dick Van Dyke & Alcoholism: Breaking the Stigma on Addiction and Seeking Help | The Dick Cavett Show

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8 ай бұрын

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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@adamlam9600 8 ай бұрын

Hope Dick is enjoying life at 97, to the fullest

@maximem1033 8 ай бұрын

Such a brave person to put words on this❤ you got it Dick

@Biboche23 6 ай бұрын

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 ❤🙏🏾

@zovalentine7305 8 ай бұрын

Dick VanDyke ❤

@davidhall8049 8 ай бұрын

Great interview

@GRequinBlanc 8 ай бұрын

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

@GavinusMaximusMaster 8 ай бұрын

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.

@jeffryphillipsburns 6 ай бұрын

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.

@arthurwhitest 8 ай бұрын

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!

@RobHealy1 26 күн бұрын

Maybe it was Mary Poppins, but I always loved this guy

@publicmail2 8 ай бұрын

Sobering interview..

@stephenremington8448 8 ай бұрын

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.