Casting Cull

The story goes that back in the 50's Dick Cavett, then an aspiring actor, was auditioning for a Broadway play. As he walked onstage the director, well-known as a star of London and New York theatre, called out from the darkened auditorium, "What's your name?" "Dick Cavett," replied the man who would later become a host of talk-radio. "What's yours?" "Maurice Evans," the answer came back, in a chilly and clipped British accent. "Next."