On Sunday April 6th, a rather glorious day, I drove up to Woodstock to attend the Biographers Panel at the Woodstock Writers Festival, where my friend Henry Bushkin was holding forth about his memoir Johnny Carson. The panel, which was hosted by Will Hermes, a music writer who is working on a biography of Lou …
On December 20th, Janet Maslin of The New York Times listed her Ten Favorite Books of 2013. Among them: “JOHNNY CARSON by Henry Bushkin (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). That rare celebrity tell-all by an author who knows whom and what he’s talking about. Perhaps Mr. Bushkin, a young lawyer in 1970, should have wondered why …
For the past few months I’ve been very fortunate to be working with Henry Bushkin, an attorney from Los Angeles who for nearly two decades represented the peerless Johnny Carson. (Yes, Henry is the famous `Bombastic Bushkin’ who showed up in Johnny’s monologues with some frequency.) Henry and I do not get to talk face-to-face …