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Backstage at The tonight show : from Johnny Carson to Jay Leno / Don Sweeney ; foreword by Ed McMahon.
- Title
- Backstage at The tonight show : from Johnny Carson to Jay Leno / Don Sweeney ; foreword by Ed McMahon.
- Author
- Sweeney, Don, 1952-
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Taylor Trade Pub., 2006.
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1992.77.T63 S94 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 233 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Don Sweeney was with the Tonight Show for nearly twenty years, and was one of the few staff members asked to remain when Jay Leno took over in 1992. This book is a collection of celebrity vignettes and anecdotes from the peak years of the Tonight Show, and includes behind-the-scenes looks at more than two dozen celebrities, including Bill Cosby, Frank Sinatra, David Letterman, Regis Philbin, Ray Charles, Tony Randall, Buddy Rich, Don Rickles, Stevie Wonder, Ed McMahon, and Johnny Carson himself. With an eye for the eccentric, amusing, or downright bizarre, Sweeney's brief portraits offer a glimpse at celebrity from the other side of the curtain.--Publisher description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The King of Late Night and I -- Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band -- Brushes with celebrity -- Buddy Rich -- Jay Leno -- Tonight Show hits the road -- Branford Marsalis and the Tonight Show Band -- That's a wrap!
- ISBN
- 158979303X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781589793033
- LCCN
- ^^2005035531
- OCLC
- 62593463
- SCSB-11747558
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library