Legendary comedian Don Rickles pranked iconic American singer Frank Sinatra during an appearance on the Tonight Show with ...

The number one thing I learned was that I would never be anywhere near as good as Johnny. Maybe Frank Sinatra would shop up, ...

Biographer Bill Zehme died before completing his magnum opus, ‘Carson the Magnificent.’ Then his former research assistant ...

Carson pioneered a new style of late-night hosting—relaxed, improvisatory, risk-averse, and inscrutable.

Carson the Magnificent” delivers the famous talk-show host in full while keeping the mystery of what made him tick alive ...

For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson was the last face millions of viewers saw before they closed ...

Johnny Carson, the man who made “The Tonight Show ... He wrote books about Frank Sinatra and Andy Kaufman and co-authored the memoirs of Leno and Regis Philbin. For years, he threw himself ...

His mood was further blackened by growing consternation that was rooted in an earlier realization: Johnny Carson was no Frank Sinatra — reserved versus expressive, interior versus exterior.

If there are ghosts, the ghost of writer Bill Zehme might be found within the Chicago tavern/restaurant Twin Anchors, where ...

For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson was the last face millions of viewers saw before they closed ...

Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’.” But Carson was driving him crazy and in 2013 he told me, “I am trapped in what I call ‘Johnny World,’ where one thing will lead to another ...