Merv Griffin interviews John le Carré in 1965, during the frost of the Cold War.
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A piece of a fun 1971 Merv Griffin interview with Dennis Hopper, who had just shown Hollywood a way out of its post-Studio System doldrums with the cheap indie smash, Easy Rider, and was in the process of undermining his own newly booming career with the quixotic, drug-fueled mess, The Last Movie.
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“The Far-Out Candidate Who Puzzles Almost Everyone.”
Jerry Brown, during his his hippie-ish “Governor Moonbeam” days in 1981, chatting with Merv Griffin. Of course, he’s also the current California Governor. I have never understood exactly where Brown is coming from, what his core is, and I doubt he could articulate it very well, either. But that amorphousness hasn’t prevented him achieving successful governance.
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Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim visit Merv Griffin in 1967, before she was Barbarella or Hanoi Jane or lots of other stuff.
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Phil Spector, crazy even in 1965, “amuses” Merv Griffin, Richard Pryor, et al.
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How cool: Ray Bradbury visits Merv Griffin in 1978 to discuss Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the future of humankind. He also reads one of his poems.
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Awkward and private, Robert De Niro was never a fan of the talk-show circuit, especially in his prime when he was turning out one indelible performance after another. But he relented for Merv Griffin in 1981, the year he won Best Actor for Raging Bull. De Niro also discuses the next movie he and Martin Scorsese were collaborating on, The King of Comedy.
Norman Mailer visits Merv Griffin in 1980 tied to the release of his fictionalized Marilyn Monroe book, Of Women and Their Elegance. “Aquarius” had settled somewhat into middle age at this point. That same year, the writer also defended the book in a hokey, interminable New York magazine piece.
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Francis Ford Coppola speaking with Merv Griffin in 1979, at the end of an insanely brilliant decade of work in which he directed four classics: the first two Godfather films, The Conversation and Apocalypse Now.
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Timothy Leary, who often gave drug addicts a bad name, at the beginning of his long run as a controversial public figure, visiting with Merv Griffin in 1966.
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Merv Griffin and Salvador Dali doing what they did. From 1965.
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Merv Griffin and Tallulah Bankhead interviewing Willie Mays in 1966. These three were inseparable.
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Andy Warhol refuses to speak during an appearance on Merv Griffin’s talk show in 1965. How healthy Edie Sedgwick looks.
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In 1979, an earnest Merv Griffin interviews Kathleen and George Lutz, the Long Island couple at the heart of the Amityville Horror hokum.
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The 70-year-old legend passed away soon after this talk with Merv Griffin.
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- Orson Welles hosts a 1975 doc about extraterrestrials.
- Orson Welles drunk while filming a wine commercial.
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