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...first look at her classics--Flesh and the Devil and A Woman of Affairs among her silent films, Queen Christina and Camille among the talkies--will allow younger viewers to take a sip of their grandparents' intoxication. "What, when drunk, one sees in other women," Kenneth Tynan wrote of her, "one sees in Garbo sober...
Shocking and erotic were perhaps the two words dearest to the heart of Kenneth Tynan, the late English critic who conceived the idea for the show. "He said that we could write about anything in the world within the realm of sexuality," says Benton's Calcutta partner, David Newman. "The only other caveat he had was that our piece should have absolutely no redeeming social value...
...Navy service in World War II, perform in a Lincoln church basement -says that Johnny's thesis at the University of Nebraska was on Benny and the mastery of comic pacing. Was it called It's All in the Timing? That was the motto embroidered on a cushion that Tynan found in Carson's home office...
...first training bra, he blurted it out on the air. The show's intimate, neurotic tone made watching Paar an energizing, enervating experience -Event Television.. Carson established order, control (one of his favorite words), an elastic predictability. After the Paar boil, Carson, with his sang froid and what Tynan calls "his cobra-swift one-liners," brought a cooler temperature to Tonight. He seemed to verify Marshall McLuhan's dictum that TV is a cool medium, not for shouters but for soothers. (This was before Crossfire.) He was also a dry white wine in the sweet, gushy Manischewitz Concord Grape...
...gust host.) But he didn't use the spare time for Manhattan or Beverly Hills partying. Working the room made him acutely uncomfortable. He was a loner who shrank from revealing his feelings, if he had them. Joanna Carson, Johnny's third wife, told Tynan she had seen her husband cry only once: at Jack Benny's funeral...