How Roberta Flack was Initially Denied by the Washington Board of Education | The Dick Cavett Show

Roberta Flack, a country singer, resigned from her teaching job in 1968 to pursue a music career. Initially, she wanted to sing and play in clubs, but the Washington Board of Education denied her request. She eventually worked for 20 hours a week, earning $8,000 a year more than she would have made teaching Latin in her school. Flack misses Latin but enjoys the excitement of Japanese conjugations.
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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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[@MsTexas73]

What a great interview with Ms. Flack. Thanks for the upload.

[@RivaG]

Roberta is an awesome woman - the PBS American Masters show about her shows how amazing she is

[@shyman99]

Roberta Flack stunningly beautiful and intelligent. Add her amazing talent to the equation and there's no question why I adore her so much.

[@Llllltryytcc]

This channel is amazing, growing up in the 2000s I love seeing a time when celebrity culture had at least some substance. And Dick is just the definition of disarming and personable

[@krissmgvlogs]

Lovely seeing Roberta Flack in her younger days. Who was the other guy talking about the commune?

[@MsTexas73]

That was actor, Orson Bean. I suppose you might remember him in later years from Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman (from the 1990s). He owned the general store in that show. But he and his first wife, Carolyn, were always on the game show, TattleTales, back in the 70s.

[@krissmgvlogs]

​@@MsTexas73hearing someone talking about commune life is wild. It was interesting though. I guess today they would call it a cult.

[@christianman73]

Why does the video description say that Roberta Flack is a "country singer"? I have some of her great soul and R & B albums, and I love her work, but did she ever sing country music? Did I miss that part of her career?

[@AhPhoey]

The board was giving her flack. Ironic

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Please post the Warren Beatty interviews

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What year was this Dick Cavett show on?

[@BrentWilkins7777]

I guess around 1973.