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...long, nondescript suite of offices at NBC's Burbank headquarters, getting ready to tackle El Moldo. It is noon on Wednesday, and they have already had their morning phone conversation with Carson about tonight's show (he has asked for a few more jokes about Ed McMahon's recent wedding and some on the Michelangelo computer virus), and they have finished a draft of the opening monologue. Theirs is one of six full-length monologues prepared by the show's eight staff writers (including two writing pairs) that Carson will get when he arrives at the office between...
Carson's nightly rituals and idiosyncrasies have become as comforting to millions of viewers as warm wool pajamas: McMahon's booming, endlessly imitated introduction ("Heeeeeere's Johnny"); the natty golf swing that signals the end of the opening monologue; Carson's nervous tics (fiddling with his tie, drumming a pencil on the desk), which have provided grist for impressionists from Rich Little to Dana Carvey. The program has had moments of great theater, from Tiny Tim's wedding to Miss Vicki to Michael Landon's poignant last appearance to discuss his terminal cancer. But mostly the show has succeeded because...
...will be renamed The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, a subtle prepositional shift from its current title, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Jazzman Branford Marsalis, who will be the music director, has already written a funky new theme song. A new set will replace the old one. Ed McMahon will be gone, to be replaced by no one. Leno has earned the chance to occupy Johnny's chair, but now he must prove he can fill it. Although the show is an institution, it is Carson's institution, and Leno must make it his own. "Letterman," Leno says...
With the absence of high scoring midfielders, Andy Towers (33-13-46) and Jay McMahon (33-9-42), the bears will be hard pressed to repeat their 13-1 performance of a year...
Penn Coach Fran Dunphy has the second-best backcourt in the league, after Princeton. The Quakers lost leading scorer Paul McMahon (13.8 points per game), but replacing him is Rookie of the Year Will McAlister, who averaged 9.7 points per game as a freshman...