Word: paar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their faces are most familiar to insomniacs and night owls, but even early birds are likely to recognize 36 years' worth of late-night television when Johnny Carson, 60, Jack Paar, 68, Steve Allen, 64, and Jerry Lester, 74, appear together next week in a three-hour special celebrating NBC's 60th anniversary. The three Tonight show hosts plus Lester (who had a pre-Tonight variety show called Broadway Open House in 1950-51) had never gathered before. "We started the most imitated show in television, the talk format," boasted a misty-eyed Paar (1957-62). Allen...
DIED. Hans Conried, 64, versatile character actor who buried his own personality in more than 100 screen roles, but whose frequent guest appearances on the old Jack Paar TV show brought his gently mocking offstage self to the attention of millions; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif. Conried was celebrated for his skillful use of accents: a villainous Nazi in early films, a zany Bulgarian sculptor in the Broadway musical Can-Can, a sheepish professor on radio's My Friend Irma. "Give me a laugh onstage," said Conried, "and I am like a tiger who has tasted blood...
...might be noted that 31,000 Americans read this magazine monthly. According to a list of subscribers in the back, they include Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Alexander Haig, Gerald Ford and Anne Armstrong. Not to mention Jack Paar...