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Died. Jose Melis, 85, Havana-born bandleader for The Tonight Show whose affectionate bantering with host Jack Paar, an old Army buddy, set the model for Doc Severinsen, Paul Shaffer and other late-night musician sidekicks who followed; in Sun City, Ariz...
...trumpet fanfare of German composer Gottfried Reiche?s ?Abblasen? (rendered for the first 25 years by Doc Severinsen, and now by Winton Marsalis) introduces Osgood standing at a 7-ft. sculpture on which are displayed the morning?s chapter headings - the table of contents for this magazine show. Osgood runs though the half-dozen main stories, then reads the news ?for today, February 15th, twenty-oh-four.? The show revels in mild eccentricities; some of the most prominent are Osgood?s bow tie, his occasional flights of doggerel and his persistent disdain for the locution ?two thousand four...
Stern and his groupies keep popping up, guerrilla-like, across the media landscape. Appearing with Jay Leno on the Tonight show during Leno's flap with < Arsenio Hall, Stern threw fuel on the flames by trashing Hall (a "moron") as well as former Johnny Carson cronies Doc Severinsen and Ed McMahon ("two of the biggest loads on two feet"). At her press conference last spring, Bill Clinton's alleged ex-girlfriend Gennifer Flowers was taken aback when a Stern reporter asked whether Clinton used a condom. When Today's Katie Couric opened the phone lines during a June appearance...
...final show, Carson dispensed with guests and spent the hour reminiscing and screening clips from past years. "And so it has come to this," he said, perched on a stool at the end. He thanked sidekicks Ed McMahon and Doc Severinsen and expressed a hope that if he returns to TV, viewers will "be as gracious in inviting me into your homes as you have been." Then, fighting back tears, he said simply, "I bid you a very heartfelt good-night...
...Tonight offices, the sentiment is starting to get thick. "Everyone in the country has been tied together by Johnny Carson," says co-executive producer Peter Lassally, who, along with De Cordova, will depart from the show when Carson does. "A part of Americana is leaving." Says bandleader Doc Severinsen, who started out in the trumpet section of the Tonight show orchestra in 1962: "In a way, it's agonizing. The ending is going on and on. The pain is being extended -- and there is pain...