One day, while being interviewed by a British journalist for an article that would appear in a February 1978 issue of The New Yorker, the celebrated talk-show host Johnny Carson gave a strange answer to a routine question. Asked whom he regarded as his best friend, Carson named his lawyer, Henry Bushkin.
This
must have come as a surprise to many readers, accustomed as they were to
Carson’s smooth repartee with a wide range of guests on NBC-TV’s “The Tonight
Show.” It certainly surprised Bushkin.
But it won’t surprise anyone reading
Bushkin’s memoir of life with Carson. By the time the anecdote occurs, almost
halfway through the book, one senses Carson was a man without much in the way
of friends or sentiment.
