The Graduate: Paul Simon on going deaf, God, death

Paul Simon contemplates faith, Death, and the existence of [the Jewish] God

(Q with Tom Power) June 20, 2023. Q Host Tom Power sits down with Paul Simon -- who wrote the hit music for the comedy The Graduate -- at the musician’s home near Austin, Texas, to discuss the inspiration for his 15th and latest album, Seven Psalms, and the Big questions it explores. Podcast: link.chtbl.com.

Who's Paul Simon? Dick Cavett finds out

Paul Simon on his writing process for "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

(The Dick Cavett Show) American musician Paul Simon explains the song writing process for Simon and Garfunkel's hit "Bridge Over Troubled Water," which aired April 9, 1970.

ABOUT: Dick Cavett has been nominated for 11 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 TV 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 of Hellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in Los Angeles 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. #PaulSimon #DickCavett #BridgeOverTroubledWater