Word: ed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest difference will be mostly administrative things--being responsible for the budget, support staff and delegating responsibilities," Veneziano said, "but I've been fortunate enough to have been kind of independent at times working under [B.U. Director of Sports Information] Ed Carpenter. During the winter, he would be busy with hockey, so being responsible for basketball, I got a good idea of what's it's like being my own boss...
Before Johnny shed Jody, he acquired an announcer named Ed McMahon. This was to become one of the enduring show-business partnerships, but not until some rules were established. Carson's first Tonight show bandleader, Skitch Henderson, remembers the "many times I watched Johnny trying to get rid of Ed." Then McMahon stopped reaching for his own laughs and settled into the long-running role of Mr. Subservience...
Other than Johnny, Ed is the only survivor in King of the Night. One producer ended up selling real estate in the San Fernando Valley. The talent manager significant in Johnny's early triumphs was fired, and his clients were barred from the Tonight show; he retired to a farmhouse in upstate New York. Carson got married a second time, in 1963, to Joanne Copeland, a game-show hostess. The marriage started disintegrating after its sixth year, and they were divorced...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...
...SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...