{"id":52876,"date":"2024-07-22T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=52876"},"modified":"2024-07-19T09:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:27:02","slug":"heres-johnny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/heres-johnny\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s Johnny"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Is one a poseur to be nostalgic for a time period in which they didn’t exist?\u00a0 Does it count if you were in a diaper?\u00a0 Then sit back and hear about the 70’s Hollywood scrapes of a skinny charismatic kid born in Iowa (yes, we get the credit).\u00a0 When we first meet Johnny<\/a>, he is getting fleeced on multiple fronts from shoddily-crafted contracts and hemorrhaging business deals.\u00a0 In one such Faustian pact,\u00a0 William Morris demanded a larger percentage than Johnny’s actual take-home pay.\u00a0 Enter the author, Henry Bushkin, Esq., Carson’s longtime consigliere, attorney, tennis partner, drinking buddy and personal fixer.\u00a0 \u00a0Eventually his fortunes reversed, inking in 1981 a $25 million annual contract for 37 three-day workweeks per year.\u00a0 This lead us to the unforgivable sin of Jay Leno, but that is neither here nor there.<\/p>\n

Johnny kept Bushkin so busy he became his sole client.\u00a0 Matrimony be damned, Johnny liked the ladies and they liked him right back.\u00a0 For example, husband Carson was caught flirting with a high-class dame at one of his elite watering holes unaware she was the mistress of mob boss Joseph Colombo.\u00a0 \u00a0Johnny called in sick a few days.\u00a0 Phone calls were made.\u00a0 Eventually the contract on Johnny’s life was lifted.\u00a0 However, though a notoriously gifted womanizer and bar hopper, Carson quixotically revered the title of married man.\u00a0 Occasionally he’d marry one and seek the author’s wise counsel for the costly reverse procedure.<\/p>\n

Spiteful, cruel, and mercurial, Johnny contained multitudes.\u00a0 He was gregarious, yet incredibly guarded in his privacy.\u00a0 Generous to his friends, Johnny regularly practiced pettiness and self-absorption.\u00a0 Bushkin covers it all in this unvarnished portrayal, Johnny Carson<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Henry Bushkin, written after the attorney-client privilege expired along with Johnny in 2005. However if you were expecting any anecdotes about Ed McMahon or Doc Severinsen, this book is not for you.<\/p>\n

Consider this an open invitation to watch the reruns on WQAD 8.2 at 9PM M-F (10PM Saturdays)….if you can stay up that late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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