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Those intent on recovering their past often start by contacting one of the voluntary registries set up by 22 states to match adoptees with birth parents who are looking for them. The most successful effort is the International Soundex Reunion Registry in Carson City, Nev., a private, nonprofit center that since 1975 has matched more than 2,200 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: Are You My Mother? | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...strips so far have taken the reader through five panels of apparent meaningfulness and then dumped a Dan Quayle joke in the last panel. Either Breathed is a lazy sot or he is trying to prove that Dan Quayle is more of a travesty than even Johnny Carson imagines...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: An Outland-ish Flop | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

...Neither can Carson, Letterman, that guy from Wheel of Fortune or that Black kid who hangs out with Eddie Murphy. [Degrading verb], no. Mort...

Author: By Julio Verala, | Title: Life Without Mort Downey | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

...Despite these shortcomings, Carson has enjoyed unprecedented affection from a notoriously fickle audience. His annual income is estimated at $20 million. For more than 25 years, a series of diverse personalities, including Dick Cavett, Joey Bishop, Joan Rivers and Alan Thicke, have tried in vain to depose him. Perhaps the best explanation for Carson's durability comes from the King himself. "If I had given as much to marriage as I gave to the Tonight show," he told the Los Angeles Times, "I'd probably have a hell of a marriage. But the fact is I haven't given that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Heeeeere's Johnny! | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...unauthorized biography uncovers some unpleasant facts about the marriages, affairs and professional relationships of Johnny Carson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 26 JUNE 26, 1989 | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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