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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...
...twit his own background-the comedic formula he never abandoned-earned him star status in the boys' room, where he would try out his routines. His ethnic-based act worked on New York's club circuit too, which led to his first national appearance on the Jack Paar show. Then, in December 1973, his stand-up routine on the Tonight Show thrust him into the big leagues: he had caught the eye of James Komack, who was casting his generation-and ethnic-gap sitcom. With Chico a winner, Prinze had reached...
...early example of the medium's effect on book sales was provided during the late 1950s by Alexander King. An erstwhile adman and former drug addict, he was the author of a scurrilously amusing book of reminiscences titled Mine Enemy Grows Older. Each time King appeared on Jack Paar's show, the sales figures of his book soared...