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...down friends from Hughes' Hollywood days as well as business associates. In Washington, Jerry Hannifin assayed Hughes' contributions to the aeronautical world, while Jess Cook interviewed Irving. Meanwhile, Roger Williams, John Tompkins and James Willwerth were also sifting Manhattan sources. Don Neff journeyed to Las Vegas and Carson City to interview state officials and former Hughes subordinates. Peter Range's assignment was Hughes' current lair on Paradise Island, where he found a James Bond atmosphere: "You can be sipping a gin fizz, chatting with London on the bar phone, going over the local paper and still...
...What great fifties pop star penned the theme to Johnny Carson's Tonight Show...
...What great fifties pop star penned the theme to Johnny Carson's Tonight Show...
When top studio Trumpeter Doc Severinsen became music director of the Tonight Show in 1967, he started by wearing sober suits on-camera. Then one night he wore a colorful Pucci tie, and Johnny Carson kidded him about it. Next Doc showed up in a zippier suit; more kidding. Soon the routine evolved into the ritual that is now familiar to millions of viewers: an ever more outrageously garbed Doc leading the band through the opening theme, then turning to await the gibes. "That looks like Roddy McDowall's diving-board cover," Carson will say of a white jumpsuit...
...nightclub act-on view most recently at Manhattan's Copacabana -is a mixture of hipness and hokum, during which he goes through a succession of four costume changes. The gags are mostly spin-offs from Tonight. "I was out Christmas shopping for my boss Johnny Carson today," he says. "It's hard to buy for him because what can you buy for a man whose wives have everything...