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Remembering Johnny Carson. Plus: Tried torture. Bush and Specter. Old U.N. And more.
p> REMEMBERING JOHNNY br> Re: Wlady Pleszczynski's Mr. Tonight : /p>

Once when Madeline Kahn was Johnny's guest-interviewee on The Tonight Show, the conversation turned to sports. Johnny asked Madeline what athletic games she liked to play. She said she didn't much care for playing sports.

Johnny asked why not.

Madeline said, "I don't like to see balls coming at me."

p>Johnny did his famous deadpan, straight into the camera. He did his famous Johnny Carson pause as the audience's anticipatory laughter built. Then he said, "I think they call that testophobia." br> -- Alan Cole br> McLean, Virginia /p> p> I couldn't agree with you more about Johnny Carson. He said more with his facial expressions than most current late night hosts say during an entire monologue. And I'll never forget being taken with the colorful curtains that he made his entrance from when we got our first color television set. Funny the things you remember. May he rest in peace.
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