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Johnny Carson / Henry Bushkin.

by Bushkin, Henry.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2013.

791.45028 C321b

Carson, Johnny, 1925-2005.

Carson, Johnny, 1925-2005 -- Friends and associates.

Tonight show (Television program)

Television personalities -- United States -- Biography.

Television talk show hosts -- United States -- Biography.

9780544217621 (hc.)

0544217624 (hc.)

294 pages, unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

1979: The star among stars -- 1970: Breaking in -- 1970: Calamity John -- 1972: Joanne and Joanna -- 1972-1978: Stairway to paradise -- 1979: NBC-See ya -- 1979-1980: Free agency -- 1979-1980: Clear sailing -- 1980-1981: The inauguration -- 1972-1980: Vegas -- 1980-1984: Hobson's choices -- 1982-1985: Homme et Femme -- 1982-1985: Days of Weinberger and neuroses -- 1987: Darkness falls -- 1987-1988: The end.

"A revealing and incisive account of the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and power, by his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant. From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show and permeated the American consciousness. In the '70s and '80s he was the country's highest-paid entertainer and its most enigmatic. He was notoriously inscrutable, as mercurial (and sometimes cruel) off-camera as he was charming and hilarious onstage. During the apex of his reign, Carson's longtime lawyer and best friend was Henry Bushkin, who now shows us Johnny Carson with a breathtaking clarity and depth that nobody else could. From the moment in 1970 when Carson hired Bushkin (who was just twenty-seven) until the moment eighteen years later when they parted ways, the author witnessed and often took part in a string of escapades that still retain their power to surprise and fascinate us. Bushkin helped Carson break into a posh Manhattan apartment to gather evidence of his wife's infidelity. Carson socialized with Frank Sinatra, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Kirk Douglas, and dozens of other stars. Bushkin explains why Carson, a voracious (and very talented) womanizer, felt he always had to be married; why he loathed small talk even as he excelled at it; why he couldn't visit his son in the hospital and wouldn't attend his mother's funeral"--Provided by publisher.

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