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ROBERT CUNNIFF: GREAT, "GREY EMINENCE" OF TALK TELEVISION, obituary on his daughter's blog. Just do like HBO Max did and treat it like a TV show with hundreds of 8-minute episodes.Associated Press, " Writer/producer Robert Cunniff dies", Variety, February 5, 2008.
His pioneering behind the scenes segments on The Dick Cavett Show inspired a 1970 cartoon in The New Yorker, without words, a rare inclusion.īorn in Chicago, Illinois, Cunniff died on Januin Brooklyn, New York City after a long illness. Your three hosts are joined by perhaps the movie's biggest fan, Jeff Heimbuch, columnist and co-host of the. The following year, he became the managing editor of Good Morning, America.Īmong his other credits were the creation of the Disney Channel's Mousterpiece Theater, and writing for TV Guide. Ole This week, we're in a celebratory mood at Mousterpiece Cinema HQ as Josh, Gabe, and Mike talk all about The Three Caballeros, the 1944 package film from Walt Disney Pictures that brought together Donald Duck, Jose Carioca, and Panchito Pistoles for the first time. Skits he was directly involved in include " Morty Moot Mope" and " The Ballad of Casey McPhee" He wrote numerous sketches, and shared an Emmy Award ("Outstanding Achievement in Children's Programming - Entertainment/Fictional") with executive producer Jon Stone. He is well known for booking Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal on the same show, with the elderly, mild-mannered New Yorker writer Janet Flanner as "referee".Īfter Cavett's first show, he moved to the Children's Television Workshop, where he was a producer of Sesame Street from 1972 to 1974. Robert Cunniff (1927- 2008) was a producer of Sesame Street during seasons 4 and 5.Ĭunniff worked for The Today Show in the mid-1960s, with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters, and with Dick Cavett on The Dick Cavett Show and later Cavett broadcasts in the 1980s and 1990s. Robert Cunniff in a captionless New Yorker cartoon.
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