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Feb 20, 1978 · Kenneth Tynan’s 1978 profile of Johnny Carson. “I once asked a bright young Manhattan journalist whether he could define in a single word what made television different from theatre or cinema.
Aug 2, 2016 · In February of 1978, Kenneth Tynan, the British theater critic, published a lengthy profile of Johnny Carson in The New Yorker under the title “Fifteen Years of the Salto Mortale.”. The term salto mortale refers to a dangerous leap on a high wire that could produce a lethal outcome, or more generally, to a dangerous undertaking.
May 10, 1992 · The interviewer Mr. Carson came closest to letting into his life, Kenneth Tynan, who wrote a profile of him for The New Yorker in 1978, came away with thousands of words of copy, gushing ...
Mar 5, 2014 · Kenneth Tynan’s classic 1978 profile of Johnny Carson for The New Yorker: “Johnny Carson on TV,” one of his colleagues confided to me, “is the visible eighth of an iceberg called Johnny Carson.” The remark took me back to something that Carson said of himself ten years ago, when, in the course of a question-and-answer session with ...
Kenneth Tynan observed Carson at a Beverly Hills back-yard party while preparing a 1977 New Yorker profile. A young actress remarked, "He looks like Gatsby." ... Johnny Carson has stayed above the ...
Jan 23, 2005 · His divorces were expensive. Joanna Holland, a former model who was Mrs. Johnny Carson from 1972 to 1982, got more than $20 million in cash and some property. ... Kenneth Tynan concluded that ...
