Word: showings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part of the Kronos allure is that the group spices up technically assured string playing with slick show-biz trappings. The four frequently perform in color-coordinated outfits, and their concerts are often akin to performance art. Beyond that, the Kronos is a resolute, almost fanatic champion of new music. It has given world premieres of more than 200 works, including five so far this year. "When people come to a Kronos concert," says Jeanrenaud, "they know they will hear something that requires a reaction, even if they don't like what they are hearing. You can't just...
...Reagans and Ingrid Bergman, was forced to assemble a life from the often bitter testimonies of others. One of three children of a utility-company executive, the Iowa-born, Nebraska-bred Carson came from a rigid, authoritarian family. "Once when he was drunk," recounted Truman Capote, a frequent Tonight show guest, "he told me that his mother would throw herself on the floor and scream, 'I bore you from these loins, and you do this to me! All that pain, and this is what I get in return...
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...
...series of diverse personalities, including Dick Cavett, Joey Bishop, Joan Rivers and Alan Thicke, have tried in vain to depose him. Perhaps the best explanation for Carson's durability comes from the King himself. "If I had given as much to marriage as I gave to the Tonight show," he told the Los Angeles Times, "I'd probably have a hell of a marriage. But the fact is I haven't given that, and there you have the simple reason for the failure of my marriages. I put the energy into the show...