Show I' - - - I NATIONWORLD The Salt Lake Tribune The Early Years: A Shrewd Carson Earns Reputation for Ruthlessness CI Continued from Emonimmoilh i Al voloor for ratings made Carson think about the desperate measures the four talk shows in New York were reduced to and be soon decided to move the show permanently to Los Angeles (where it was broadcast from a few weeks a year) in search of a new pool of guests who would be "The Tonight Show's" and "The Tonight Show's" alone He also was undergoing his second divorce Career changes and divorce seemed in Carson's life to go together suggesting to some he needed a new kind of wife for each new incarnation Curiously though he kept on marrying women whose names were a variation on "Joan" In August 1962 shortly before he was to begin hosting "The Tonight Show" Johnny married his second wife Joanne Copeland a sometime TV host herself and they settled into a large apartment in the new United Nations Towers Among their neighbors were author Truman Capote and later Robert F Kennedy This marriage lasted through Johnny's New York years But by 1970 he and Joanne had separated Joanne said "I don't know what caused the split For myself I can't think of any reasons for it There was no other reason than that Johnny wanted his freedom When somebody you love wants his freedom what can you do or say?" Others including neighbor Capote said that there were many other women in Carson's life late in the marriage and that his night life was a problem For a while Carson who tended to grow rambunctious when drinking was banned from New York clubs When their divorce was finally settled in the summer of 1972 Joanne received $200000 in cash art then worth $250000 and annual alimony of $100000 The famous Carson divorce jokes then joined the monologue By that time Johnny had met a model Joanna Holland whom he married in Beverly Hills on the 10th anniversary of "The Tonight Show" Glamorous and elegant she was described by a friend as "the perfect trophy wife for a Beverly Hills superstar which is what Carson was becom- failing to get three or four of their jokes in the monologue each night are booted out Some however have done so well they've been there for years The opening monologue that these writers work on so frantically with its emphasis on spiking politicians was the great innovation Carson brought to "The Tonight Show" From the first show Carson made jokes about politicians a previously taboo subject on what was supposed to have been an inoffensive medium limited to jokes about the weather the high cost of living and the power and light companies Indeed when Carson told his first political joke the audience didn't know how to react In those early days Carson was careful to match a joke about a politician of one party against one of the other to stave off government regulators who might insist he was being unfair Johnny started with "The Tonight Show" in 1962 but then he was only an employee of NBC Chafing under the conflicting instructions and orders from one network biggie after another he set out to make the show his own to gain power over it This was probably one of the major keys to success but it was success achieved only through gutsiness and bluff More than once he walked off stayed away threatened to leave Furthermore he conducted his war for control of the show in the press By 1967 however the show was more or less his He not NBC was calling the shots but the network was then perfectly happy to let him do so "The Tonight Show" was bringing in $25 million a year to the network "The Tonight Show" however was in new danger then because of its own success Other networks in the late '60s saw the phenomenal results NBC was achieving with Carson and decided to try their own talk shows By 1969 four nightly talk shows were being produced in Manhattan alone There was of course "The Tonight Show" and then there Were David Frost Mery Griffin and Dick Cavett Daytime held dozens more ' The competition for new and unusual guests and even better ratings led in those days to some stunts To this day strange the highest-rate"Tonight Show" ever was one involving a gimmick and aired in December 1969 The stunt that produced the highest ratings was an r wedding ceremony Tiny Tim a giant sized hippielike singer of large features and a falsetto voice agreed to be married to his fiancee Miss Vicki on "The Tonight - on-a- high-fashio- Show" The wedding occurred on a set with a tuxedoed Ed McMahon inviting the viewers in as guests The wedding was serious but the jokes were outrageous When Tiny Tim announced that in accordance with his beliefs he and Miss Vicki would spend the first three nights of their honeymoon in separate hotel rooms Johnny quipped that Miss Vicki would have a "Please Disturb" sign hanging from her door That was one of the milder jokes but it was one of the many that outraged members of the clergy and viewers who felt the TV wedding especially of two such odd people trivialized marriage and the wedding ceremony The TV wedding done strictly WM NMI MIN NMI Mil Mil OM VII 810 MIN IMI CLIP I 1111 Mil MIN MIS MIN ell IMI Mt gait cake Ztibutte I 411rr"ft e TELEPHONE NUMBERS Estabitshed April 15 187i pubhshed dotty and Sunday by the CIRCULATION KearnsIfibune Cofporobon 443 South Main St Salt Lake City Utah Carrier and home delivery information on weekdays before 10 am and Sundays before 1 pm 0 Salt Lake south Davis counties All other areas Second class postage paid at Sall take Celt Utah POSTMASTER Send address changes to The Sall Lake Tt'Pune 143 South Main St Sall tcwe City utoh tu 1 New subscriptions restarting subscription cancellations and billing information Monday through Friday 8 am to 5 pm Home Delivery Subscriptions 0 Mail Subscriptions scnpts tellers and pctures sent at the avAnees nsk and KeamsInbune Comae° lion assumes no responsiWily lot their custody of whom unsolicited articles All SUASCPIPTION Newspaper in Ed Photography Publisher Reader Advocate Entertainment Religion Library Lifesi it Sports Roily & PATES 24 per copy SO2 per copy Sunday with daily Si 50 per copy Sunday Only Newsrack or Vendor Daily SSOpe4copy Si 50 per copy Sunday (Roles may defter outude the Solt Las- - 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NMI 8111 1811 VIM MO NW 811 1011 In MI off-trac- was reneged when NBC came through in 1980 with a better contract The 1980 contract was so lucrative and gave him so much vacation time that Bob Hope quipped "Next year he's got a sweeter deal — $43 million and he only has to show up once a week to pick up his mes- sages" But he was beginning to chafe under the Beverly Hills lifestyle his wife so much enjoyed By the early '80s the marriage was in trouble At one point to patch things up between Joanna and himself he bought her a $250000 necklace and two apartments in New York: one for $3 million in the Trump Tower one for $2 million in the Pierre Hotel so Joanna room service could have But the gifts didn't take 24-ho- FINAL TUESDAY: OM 11111 1111 OM WM III OW ONO MIR 011 y inclined elevators traveling up the slope of the pyramid The resort just south of the 4032-rooExcalibur Hotel will feature a series of "fantasy adventures" developed by special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull The Excalibur and Luxor are owned by Circus Circus Enterprises Inc Also under construction is a 5000-rooMGM Grand Inc hotel and theme park across the Strip from the Excalibur and a 3000-rooresort — Treasure Island Just last week Caesars Palace casino opened its $100 million shopping complex The Forum k 3 Cities Where Gambling Is Proposed Three US cities where casino gambling has been proposed: CHICAGO: A $2 billion Las Vegas-stylcasino and entertainment complex would create 10000 jobs and $500 million a year in taxes proponents say The complex financed by Las Vegas casino needs the approval of the Illinois Legislature and governor HARTFORD Conn: A casino creating 5000 jobs has been proposed by showman Steve Wynn chairman of Mirage Resorts NEW ORIEANS: One "and only one" casino for the city has been proposed pending legislative approval 100-acr- e e corn-pani- For the first time in a century riverboat gambling returned to the Mississippi with the blessing of Iowa Illinois Louisiana and Mississippi where boats don't have to have engines or crews or even leave the docks card rooms boosted tourism in where Wild Bill Hickok was murdered holding the dead man's hand of Iwo pairs aces and eights Three Colorado mining towns followed suit and dozens of other places are looking into it Small-stake- s SD Deadwood CURTAIN CALL 7 4 n --"s 7 --- -7 7- v 4 l 4 ie - '" '''''''' ' 6 - ii ' et ''''' ' joz I - p A ‘ t9e c:' f 'llof Cr" e c 1 4' ' 1 t ' fl ii :41) ' ' '' 1 '''''" A-- ss- 1 t '''14' 1 tr-- - iiiiip I i ' ' ( t srk I ie 4 N ' ' 'ii 1 ltgoitolli S 1 1 g Ikk':te‘ k :f:teøf 171 tt 4 -- 'ait - 1 '' 0: - '4 ' 1 vi ' 1 A 1 : 14 I i° 'i' 1 I' t 411 1 1:::f- 4'':41 flit I :: L t v:71: - V'itt You le" s'''''4 ' Nt 0 - r- i 4 '''''''' 114 i Y '' is- : -- -1 ' '4ldrci— "'''''!"''- '' -4 ': r : v fr 4 t '4i 1 ' I -- I ' ( id ' v I $ ' - slirt o I y AsmcotioNirmomorwv7707177:7Rt UUTGROWN 'THE 11-Ay-EN- NEED FOR A DEGREE YOU'VE JUST OUTGROWN I MIN De gait sake Pibunt City Desk Editor Editorial Writers the "Oscars" the Academy n d b extra-lega- flower-bedecke- d Ir the Awards ceremonies that he once described as "two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over four hours" Carson was at the top of his form So much so that when in 1979 he suddenly announced his He quickly While some big cities consider opening casinos Las Vegas is trying to shift its image as a gambler's paradise by breaking ground on several family-orienteresorts Luxor the latest is a $35 million pyramid of bronzed glass scheduled to open in October The 2521-rooresort will have "It seems to be a very American trait to only look at one dimension at a time Now we're looking at economic benefits Morality arguments have lost a lot of punch" said William Eadington difector of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada at Reno "The more important question should be that if you remove all the benefits is gambling legitimate enough to be legal for its own sake?" In Connecticut which has lost 155800 jobs in the past two years its worst slump since the Depression showman Steve Wynn chairman of Micasino rage Resorts Inc has proposed a 5000-join Hartford He argues that a gambling hall with say a 54- foot manmade volcano would spice up the city's insurance-broke- r image and lure tourists "If you build it they will come" Wynn told civic leaders Connecticut already has a lottery jai alai dog horse betting Earlier this racing and year the Mashantucket Pequot Indians opened a casino in Ledyard an expansion of their bingo hall Detroit Mayor Coleman Young has tried and failed three times to get a gambling referendum approved Now it looks as if the Canadians nearby may get their bets down first Ontario's provincial government is considering legal gambling in six towns that border the United States including the city of Windsor just eross from Detroit and just as eager to raise revenue without raising taxes New Orleans Mayor Sidney Barthelemy endorses the concept of one — "and only one" — casino in his city pending legislative approval The Great New Orleans Casino Development Association supports gambling Louisiana already has approved riverboat gambling What in the name of Amarillo Slim is going on? Beginning with the economic hard times of 1931 Nevada legalized gambling 21 states licensed race tracks and charities turned to bingo Nevada kept its casino monopoly until 1978 when New Jersey tried to rejuvenate the shabby beauty pageant resort of Atlantic City Then came the boom Since 1979 more than 130 American Indian tribes have opened games such as bingo slot machines and blackjack It was seen as economic development to remedy years of welfare and mid-'80- shocked Start to Cater to Families ey master of ceremonies at their 1980 inaugural gala This was one of the many outside gigs he did s including through the stints in Las Vegas and as host of successful that the clothes Carson wore on any given night were available in stores the next morning He also invested in Las Vegas becoming involved in a bitter fight with singer Wayne Newton over a hotel both wanted to buy That fight turned into a lengthy lawsuit still not entirely ironed out A bank he invested in turned customers out to have l Carembarrassed that something son but about which he knew nothing He quickly got out of that business but not before posing with a Playboy bunny at the opening of the bank's new offices And by the early '80s the Securities and Exchange Commission was alleging that Joanna Carson had fed inside information to friends and relatives about upcoming stock deals Carson was involved in allowing them to make improper profits He may not have been entirely successful in business deals outside "The Tonight Show" but his "Tonight Show" monologues continued to dazzle When it came to politicians he showed in his treat on-ai- Arguments persist about gambling's links to organized crime prostitution and compulsive gamblers Proponents focus on the bottom line: mon- h The Reagans took the jokes well and invited Carson to be The move to Beverly Hills thus was a big one not only professionally but also personally He was now a wealthy man investing in a variety of businesses One of them Johnny Carson Clothes a division of Hart Schaffner and Marx became so d Glitzy Las Vegas Resorts versations" everyone A3 A4 la Continued from super-wealt- retirement Monday May 4 1992 Cities Looking for Bucks illay Wager on Casinos ment of his Bel Air neighbors the Reagans that his new and society position hadn't affected his political sharpness One night in 1980 he said "So far Ronald Reagan is the frontrunner among Republicans and they keep trying to say that Ronnie is you know too old I don't really think so I mean he's getting along but not certainly not — well let me put it this way: most politicians quote Lincoln but not many from personal con- ing" ir - - - : I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I II III MI a MOST UNNERSMES NOW that you're 263-144- 4 serious about getting your degree you need a university that's serious about helping you The University of Phoenix Utah Campus We're the nation's leader in adult education Attend classes one night a week or on weekends and you can complete your degree in as little as two years A professi( anal certificate can be completed in less than a year Classes are held in Salt Lake City Ogden ProvoOrem and Brigham City Our Bachelors and Masters degree programs in Business and Nursing and our Masters degree program in Education are taught by carefully selected professionals who bring a rare combination of wisdom and practical experience to every course they teach Classes begin soon so call us today We'll celebrate when you get your degree The University of Phoenix is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North qniversityof Phoenix v tyv4('' -- IT'S ABOUT TIME Central Association of Colleges and Schools BSBA BaLhelor of Science in MAOM AdMiniStratiOn 101stc1 UI Arts in OrgartirAtional Management CEITIFICATI P06141)48 IN Gosernment 0 C' MBA klastct Ot Bust4ss Administration BSN bachelor of Science in Nursing Contracting Total Qua lits Management 0 Utah Campus 0 BAM Bachelor MN Master of Nursing 0 Arts in Management MAED Mater of Arts in ERICM of Global Management and Human Resources Management P ' i' i i ----- - 6- --- -- - - - - - |