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protected in the showbiz pantheon, Carson and his status will survive having Mr. Bushkin as his Boswell. Of the comics who have headlined "The this night Show"—Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Carson, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Mr. Leno afresh (a sort of late-night Grover Cleveland)—Carson is the paragon. He manned the table longest, had the funniest monologues and routines, rang up the largest ratings, and made the most money for NBC and himself. His five stints as MC of the Academy Awards outshone Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and all the rest, even the sainted Bob wish. He helped lift the careers of some of the outstanding comedians of his era, among them Richard Pryor, account Cosby and George Carlin. A guest sit on on Carson's this night" couch was a perk after cost.
In Mr. Bushkin's telling, Carson's article is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale, heavy on the Hyde. They contacted in 1970, when juvenile Mr. Bushkin, just a couple of years out of regulation school at Vanderbilt, was summoned to Carson's grand agency at 30 Rockefeller Plaza through a mutual ally. Mr. Bushkin was a very junior constituent of a Manhattan entertainment-law firm, but the great man unaccountably took a glow to him.
established as Carson's lawyer, Mr. Bushkin promptly engaged the surefire technique highly rated by wily barbers, dentists and IT specialists. He displayed Carson how awfully he had been served by the big-name agencies, business managers, levy accountants and others who had adhered themselves to the celebrity. More than that, the solicitor became Carson's one-man entourage: tennis colleague, predawn drinking buddy, hand-holder, fixer of noisome difficulties, and "cleaner" of humilitating and possibly costly messes left by his one and only client.
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Carson's on-screen persona—the puckish grin, the slyly increased eyebrow, the occasional smirk—hardly reflected the full gamut of his off-screen personality: "He could be the nastiest son-of-a-bitch on earth," composes Mr. Bushkin. "One instant gracious, comical, and generous and curt, aloof, and hard-hearted in the next."
Mr. Bushkin's audition allotment had been to accompany Carson and some cronies as they bribed their way into an empty East edge luxury suite surreptitiously leased as a love nest by the second of Carson's four wives, Joanne Copeland. interior the flat, the raiding party discovered pictures of Joanne with the quondam football great open Gifford and men's and women's apparel mingling in the wardrobe. His suspicions verified, Carson, who had a .38 holstered on his hip, began to sob. Later he deplored to Mr. Bushkin: "That guy performances three positions on the area. I could never get Joanne to proceed for more than two." (The ex-Mrs. Carson and Mr. Gifford, through wife Kathie Lee, have denied that they were lovers.)
This was the first of two divorce activities and uncountable marital crises that the trusted solicitor massaged for Carson, an addictive womanizer whose temper often ignited when he was intoxicated, which appears to be as often as not. "A rigid p--ck has no conscience," Carson observed to Mr. Bushkin, in a delicious but lifeless double-entendre. On one event, Carson picked up an appealing brunette at Jilly's, the West 50s junction belongs to by open Sinatra's buddy Jilly Rizzo. The woman turned out to be the "goomar" of a mobster, who, as the article goes, had a twosome of his heavies haul Johnny down a flight of steps.
Another time, Carson on TV kept needling a nondescript player named Keefe Brasselle until one of Brasselle's buds accosted Johnny at a Hollywood boîte called Sneaky Pete's and trounce him up. Yet another time, a drunken Carson had to be restrained from punching out Tom Snyder, whose thriving 1 a.m. talk display pursued "Tonight," over some unknown grievance.
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Carson accused his successive flops as a husband and father—he had three estranged sons from a first wedding ceremony to Jody Wolcott, a college sweetheart—on his mother, a freezing, whiny woman who increased him in iced Nebraska. Now a gigantic star resettled in Los Angeles, he invited his parents to a glittery Hollywood party and later inquired her how she'd admired it. "I guess parties are the identical all over the country," she replied. Later he dispatched his parents on a round-the-world cruise and equipped them with a borrowing business business card to purchase any thing they liked along the way. "I'm pleased to be home," was all mom had to state on her come back. "My marriages failed because she f--ked me up," he deplored. "The wicked witch is dead," he broadcast to the lawyer when his mother died. He skipped the burial.
Deadpanning the obituary for his condemned second wedding ceremony, Carson said: "Joanne has broken my heart . . . to the extent that I even have one." He promptly settled on No. 3, a brainy ex-model entitled Joanna Holland ("Johnny didn't desire to have to change the monograms on the towels after every marriage," cleft Bob Newhart.) His ever-prudent counselor advised him to make a prenuptial affirmation with her, made a draft it and unblocked it with the willing potential bride. Carson ripped it up on the eve of the wedding.
He had married up with Joanna—she redecorated his gigantic new dwelling, introduced him to fine wine, art assembling and other flavours not propagated in Nebraska. Every time Carson wandered, she tallied a new pay: jewelry, a Picasso, even a white Rolls-Royce Corniche. Without that prenup, the inevitable end of the 13-year wedding ceremony cost Carson $35 million.
He could afford it. Mr. Bushkin artfully sketches in the dimensions of Carson's genius for high-wire, live-on-tape TV. The comic worked obsessively, expending weekends and holidays doing two-a-night standup shows in Las Vegas and on the street. These lucrative gigs sharpened his material and his timing, but he had a faultless gauge for assessing the value of his TV performances and never coasted.
Mr. Bushkin's publication is particularly good in capturing Carson backstage with Bob wish and other comical performance legends telling jokes, none fit for the pages of this bulletin. And then there are the arcane protocols of display enterprise at the top. making Ronald Reagan's first Presidential Inaugural Gala in 1980, Frank Sinatra wanted Carson to be the MC. Sinatra called Carson and, Don Corleone-like, cast the demand as a personal favor to the head person of the Board. Carson dutifully kissed the ring.
By his own account, the business agreements Mr. Bushkin kept making for Carson were a bonanza. In a hush-hush private municipal trial before a moonlighting referee, Carson liberated himself from his NBC contract, setting free him to dicker with other networks. ABC suggested Carson a late-night display vying directly with "Tonight." recommendations was sought from Lew Wasserman, the head of MCA and a true Hollywood godfather renowned for his sagacity. "It is not prudent," quoth the oracle, "to inquire people to change their nightly examining habits." So Carson stayed with NBC, and Mr. Bushkin slash him a deal that gave him ownership of "The "Tonight Show" and all its back programs, set up his own production business to deal other shows to the network, and paid him $71 million a year in today's dollars to put on 111 one-hour programs—a rate of $640,000 an hour.
no one of this made Carson especially happy. He loved tennis, but his courtside manners—he betrayed flagrantly on line calls—made him a pariah on the Har-Tru. He married for a fourth time but kept consuming and philandering. Mr. Bushkin's wedding ceremony was a casualty of his obsessive vigilance to Carson and their sexcapades, particularly in Las Vegas, where the hotel proprietors lavished delights on their headliner with leftovers for his sidekick. More than one time, Carson workout his droit du seigneur with his vassal's newest playmate.
Predictably, it all ended in tears—and litigation. Carson's fourth and last wife, Alexis Maas, developed an understandable disapprove for wingman Bushkin and, he composes, undermined him with his purchaser. The solicitor closed his own fate by discussing the sale of Carson Productions with some interested purchasers without giving a heads-up to the man whose name was on the building. After nearly two decades together, Carson discharged him in a three-minute dialogue and subsequent litigated him for malpractice.
Carson retired at 67 from "The "Tonight Show" in 1992. All that fuming and boozing left him with emphysema and a heart status, and he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Jan. 23, 2005. He was solely and worth $450 million.
In his valedictory paragraph, Mr. Bushkin composes: "I . . . like to believe he would be joyous with this book."
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protected in the showbiz pantheon, Carson and his status will survive having Mr. Bushkin as his Boswell. Of the comics who have headlined "The this night Show"—Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Carson, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Mr. Leno afresh (a sort of late-night Grover Cleveland)—Carson is the paragon. He manned the table longest, had the funniest monologues and routines, rang up the largest ratings, and made the most money for NBC and himself. His five stints as MC of the Academy Awards outshone Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and all the rest, even the sainted Bob wish. He helped lift the careers of some of the outstanding comedians of his era, among them Richard Pryor, account Cosby and George Carlin. A guest sit on on Carson's this night" couch was a perk after cost.
In Mr. Bushkin's telling, Carson's article is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale, heavy on the Hyde. They contacted in 1970, when juvenile Mr. Bushkin, just a couple of years out of regulation school at Vanderbilt, was summoned to Carson's grand agency at 30 Rockefeller Plaza through a mutual ally. Mr. Bushkin was a very junior constituent of a Manhattan entertainment-law firm, but the great man unaccountably took a glow to him.
established as Carson's lawyer, Mr. Bushkin promptly engaged the surefire technique highly rated by wily barbers, dentists and IT specialists. He displayed Carson how awfully he had been served by the big-name agencies, business managers, levy accountants and others who had adhered themselves to the celebrity. More than that, the solicitor became Carson's one-man entourage: tennis colleague, predawn drinking buddy, hand-holder, fixer of noisome difficulties, and "cleaner" of humilitating and possibly costly messes left by his one and only client.
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Carson's on-screen persona—the puckish grin, the slyly increased eyebrow, the occasional smirk—hardly reflected the full gamut of his off-screen personality: "He could be the nastiest son-of-a-bitch on earth," composes Mr. Bushkin. "One instant gracious, comical, and generous and curt, aloof, and hard-hearted in the next."
Mr. Bushkin's audition allotment had been to accompany Carson and some cronies as they bribed their way into an empty East edge luxury suite surreptitiously leased as a love nest by the second of Carson's four wives, Joanne Copeland. interior the flat, the raiding party discovered pictures of Joanne with the quondam football great open Gifford and men's and women's apparel mingling in the wardrobe. His suspicions verified, Carson, who had a .38 holstered on his hip, began to sob. Later he deplored to Mr. Bushkin: "That guy performances three positions on the area. I could never get Joanne to proceed for more than two." (The ex-Mrs. Carson and Mr. Gifford, through wife Kathie Lee, have denied that they were lovers.)
This was the first of two divorce activities and uncountable marital crises that the trusted solicitor massaged for Carson, an addictive womanizer whose temper often ignited when he was intoxicated, which appears to be as often as not. "A rigid p--ck has no conscience," Carson observed to Mr. Bushkin, in a delicious but lifeless double-entendre. On one event, Carson picked up an appealing brunette at Jilly's, the West 50s junction belongs to by open Sinatra's buddy Jilly Rizzo. The woman turned out to be the "goomar" of a mobster, who, as the article goes, had a twosome of his heavies haul Johnny down a flight of steps.
Another time, Carson on TV kept needling a nondescript player named Keefe Brasselle until one of Brasselle's buds accosted Johnny at a Hollywood boîte called Sneaky Pete's and trounce him up. Yet another time, a drunken Carson had to be restrained from punching out Tom Snyder, whose thriving 1 a.m. talk display pursued "Tonight," over some unknown grievance.
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Carson accused his successive flops as a husband and father—he had three estranged sons from a first wedding ceremony to Jody Wolcott, a college sweetheart—on his mother, a freezing, whiny woman who increased him in iced Nebraska. Now a gigantic star resettled in Los Angeles, he invited his parents to a glittery Hollywood party and later inquired her how she'd admired it. "I guess parties are the identical all over the country," she replied. Later he dispatched his parents on a round-the-world cruise and equipped them with a borrowing business business card to purchase any thing they liked along the way. "I'm pleased to be home," was all mom had to state on her come back. "My marriages failed because she f--ked me up," he deplored. "The wicked witch is dead," he broadcast to the lawyer when his mother died. He skipped the burial.
Deadpanning the obituary for his condemned second wedding ceremony, Carson said: "Joanne has broken my heart . . . to the extent that I even have one." He promptly settled on No. 3, a brainy ex-model entitled Joanna Holland ("Johnny didn't desire to have to change the monograms on the towels after every marriage," cleft Bob Newhart.) His ever-prudent counselor advised him to make a prenuptial affirmation with her, made a draft it and unblocked it with the willing potential bride. Carson ripped it up on the eve of the wedding.
He had married up with Joanna—she redecorated his gigantic new dwelling, introduced him to fine wine, art assembling and other flavours not propagated in Nebraska. Every time Carson wandered, she tallied a new pay: jewelry, a Picasso, even a white Rolls-Royce Corniche. Without that prenup, the inevitable end of the 13-year wedding ceremony cost Carson $35 million.
He could afford it. Mr. Bushkin artfully sketches in the dimensions of Carson's genius for high-wire, live-on-tape TV. The comic worked obsessively, expending weekends and holidays doing two-a-night standup shows in Las Vegas and on the street. These lucrative gigs sharpened his material and his timing, but he had a faultless gauge for assessing the value of his TV performances and never coasted.
Mr. Bushkin's publication is particularly good in capturing Carson backstage with Bob wish and other comical performance legends telling jokes, none fit for the pages of this bulletin. And then there are the arcane protocols of display enterprise at the top. making Ronald Reagan's first Presidential Inaugural Gala in 1980, Frank Sinatra wanted Carson to be the MC. Sinatra called Carson and, Don Corleone-like, cast the demand as a personal favor to the head person of the Board. Carson dutifully kissed the ring.
By his own account, the business agreements Mr. Bushkin kept making for Carson were a bonanza. In a hush-hush private municipal trial before a moonlighting referee, Carson liberated himself from his NBC contract, setting free him to dicker with other networks. ABC suggested Carson a late-night display vying directly with "Tonight." recommendations was sought from Lew Wasserman, the head of MCA and a true Hollywood godfather renowned for his sagacity. "It is not prudent," quoth the oracle, "to inquire people to change their nightly examining habits." So Carson stayed with NBC, and Mr. Bushkin slash him a deal that gave him ownership of "The "Tonight Show" and all its back programs, set up his own production business to deal other shows to the network, and paid him $71 million a year in today's dollars to put on 111 one-hour programs—a rate of $640,000 an hour.
no one of this made Carson especially happy. He loved tennis, but his courtside manners—he betrayed flagrantly on line calls—made him a pariah on the Har-Tru. He married for a fourth time but kept consuming and philandering. Mr. Bushkin's wedding ceremony was a casualty of his obsessive vigilance to Carson and their sexcapades, particularly in Las Vegas, where the hotel proprietors lavished delights on their headliner with leftovers for his sidekick. More than one time, Carson workout his droit du seigneur with his vassal's newest playmate.
Predictably, it all ended in tears—and litigation. Carson's fourth and last wife, Alexis Maas, developed an understandable disapprove for wingman Bushkin and, he composes, undermined him with his purchaser. The solicitor closed his own fate by discussing the sale of Carson Productions with some interested purchasers without giving a heads-up to the man whose name was on the building. After nearly two decades together, Carson discharged him in a three-minute dialogue and subsequent litigated him for malpractice.
Carson retired at 67 from "The "Tonight Show" in 1992. All that fuming and boozing left him with emphysema and a heart status, and he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Jan. 23, 2005. He was solely and worth $450 million.
In his valedictory paragraph, Mr. Bushkin composes: "I . . . like to believe he would be joyous with this book."
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