Theeeeere goes Johnny
In a move that should make all former stars who have moved out of the spotlight wary of a sudden media mention, Johnny Carson has died. (I know it seems insensitive to say it, but this is the most over the top, obsequious obit I believe I've ever read. Michael Ventre must watch old Tonight Show tapes as a sexual aid.)
This is just a few days after a friend of Carson's mentioned to reporters that Johnny regularly sent topical humor to Dave Letterman for his monologue, mentioning Johnny's emphysema (which is what ultimately killed him) as an almost passing thing.
If you just stay completely out of the spotlight when you retire you'll live into your 90's and when you die everyone will say "I thought he died years ago." People need cosmic instruction in Fate's generally ironic and cruel sense of humor and its need to listen to what people say and go "Oh, really? Are you sure about that?"
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