As Malkoff described it, a heavily inebriated Carson, fresh off his divorce to his second wife Joanna, walked into New York ...
When “Crazy Joe” found out, he put a hit out on the Tonight Show legend, allegedly proclaiming, “Carson’s a dead man!” Not even other mob bosses held sway over Gallo, but Sinatra invited the gangster ...
Johnny Carson nearly got killed by an outraged gangster until Frank Sinatra intervened and got the hit called off, RadarOnline.com can reveal. In his new book Love Johnny Carson: One Obsessive Fan's ...
For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson was the last face millions of viewers saw before they closed their eyes and went to sleep. Carson, the critic David Thomson once noted, ...
Everybody who was anybody landed on Johnny's couch, clockwise from upper left: Richard Pryor, 1986; Drew Barrymore, 1982; Bette Midler, 1992; then-Gov. Jerry Brown, 1979. (Ron Tom, Gene Arias, Alice S ...
Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show" set. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times) Johnny Carson was so popular during his heyday that a late-night quip about a toilet paper shortage caused a run on the ...