tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post5815807891346683765..comments2024-03-18T02:39:53.309-07:00Comments on The Reno Dispatch: Laughter & Betrayal: Is Johnny Carson's New Biographer a Traitor?Jamie Renohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07503392544496379634noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post-31063065804447744832023-08-08T08:27:04.028-07:002023-08-08T08:27:04.028-07:00You wrote your article and responded to comments a...You wrote your article and responded to comments as if you know the truth about the anecdotes told and they accounts were false. You don't know. I don't know. But I do know you don't know. That says all anyone needs to know. About you and your articles.<br /><br />Even if I'm posting anonymously because I choose not to sign up for something just to make a comment.<br /><br />Good luckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post-12583720980763758742020-12-15T12:28:33.392-08:002020-12-15T12:28:33.392-08:00For all his talent and power, this book shows that...For all his talent and power, this book shows that Carson was above all a human being. A pretty self absorbed person who was both extremely generous, but sometimes unnecessarily cruel. While you have to take into account the authors own self interest in this biography, there is the ring of truth in most of it. For me, the sordid details I learned about this tv legend do not distract from the unique ability he had at what he did. It makes one think that if Johnny didn't have this dark aspect of his personality, he wouldn't have been the extraordinary talent that he was. I think that's true of many of the elite in the entertainment industry. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12789478357083209550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post-67725546434725274482020-10-17T11:47:53.515-07:002020-10-17T11:47:53.515-07:00Only cowards and fools post anonymously. Only cowards and fools post anonymously. Jamie Renohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503392544496379634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post-91750656216671855912020-05-21T05:36:42.174-07:002020-05-21T05:36:42.174-07:00It's interesting that Joan Rivers liked the bo...It's interesting that Joan Rivers liked the book.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post-28361992793334803742015-02-20T16:34:14.360-08:002015-02-20T16:34:14.360-08:00Agree, to a point. Bombastic Bushkin's takes a...Agree, to a point. Bombastic Bushkin's takes are not necessarily accurate or factual. He didn't cull them from news clips, they are instead accounts of various first-person experiences with Johnny mixed with a very large and regrettable dose of emotionally charged bitterness and pure fiction that for the most part can't be disproved.Jamie Renohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503392544496379634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post-30100033291988905492015-02-20T16:30:37.986-08:002015-02-20T16:30:37.986-08:00Nice try. But this is revisionist and very biased ...Nice try. But this is revisionist and very biased history. Who are you?Jamie Renohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503392544496379634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post-58999813809480880542015-02-20T15:12:35.830-08:002015-02-20T15:12:35.830-08:00If people didn't "report" and "...If people didn't "report" and "write" stories, we would have no history. There is no loyalty to the dead. Get over it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post-58361492516942032052013-11-02T08:15:13.762-07:002013-11-02T08:15:13.762-07:00Actually, I thought the book had "ghostwriter...Actually, I thought the book had "ghostwriter" written all over it. But then I reconsidered. A ghostwriter would have writen a book that was interesting, not a loosely connected series of anecdotes that always *seem* to start of with the promise of some amazing "punchline" at the end -- I guess that would be called "building suspense" -- but then the anecdote fizzles out into yet more banality and you come away with the impression, "When is this guy going to tell me something interesting?"<br /><br />This is like getting a description of the Mona Lisa from someone who's only ever seen it in books -- and all those were in black and white.<br /><br />There are no interesting character portrayals -- just surface noise speckled with a hefty, and nauseating dose of name-dropping, which always kills any book written about a celebrity by someone who hung out with the celebrity but wasn't a celebrity himself. Even the name-dropped become caricatures of themselves; the equivalent of literally doodles on a legal pad as opposed to oil paintings.<br /><br />And that extended to the portrait of Johnny Carson: just a long-winded recitation of "this happened and then that happened" from page one until the last.<br /><br />You could have just tracked down a stack of magazines and newspapers from over the years and cut the relevant articles out of them, typed them all up as if they were one long article, and you'd have this book.<br /><br />Astounding.ChefNickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506706291656673082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post-82545582794423546662013-10-22T11:55:38.876-07:002013-10-22T11:55:38.876-07:00I agree with you. It is a compelling book. But you...I agree with you. It is a compelling book. But you are absolutely right.Jamie Renohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503392544496379634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781966654378488643.post-74271017197931173212013-10-22T11:52:15.086-07:002013-10-22T11:52:15.086-07:00I wouldn't waste my money buying this book. I...I wouldn't waste my money buying this book. I don't contribute to people who betray others. That Buskin would stoop this low speaks volumes to his character.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com