Johnny Carson
By: Henry Bushkin
Series: Thorndike Press large print biography; Thorndike Press large print biography series
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9781410465238
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Television personalities; Large type books; Biography; Tonight show (Television program)
Description: From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show and permeated the American consciousness. The country's highest-paid entertainer and its most enigmatic, he was as mercurial off-camera as he was charming and hilarious onstage. Now Carson's longtime lawyer and best friend, Henry Bushkin, shows us Johnny with a breathtaking clarity and depth that nobody else could, revealing not only how Johnny Carson truly was, but why.
Table of contents: title: 1979 : the star among stars; title: 1970 : breaking in; title: 1970 : Calamity John; title: 1972 : Joanne and Joanna; title: 1972-1978 : stairway to paradise; title: 1979 : NBC; title: See ya; title: 1979-1980 : Free agency; title: 1979-1980 : Clear sailing; title: 1980-1981 : The inauguration; title: 1972-1980 : Vegas; title: 1980-1984 : Hobson's choices; title: 1982-1985 : homme et femme; title: 1982-1985 : days of Weinberger and neuroses; title: 1987 : Darkness falls; title: 1987-1988 : The end.