The season's extraordinary biography: Peter Jones's " Johnny Carson: King of Late Night" ("American Masters, " PBS) is, in its skill and the impact of its probing detail, the best documentary of an entertainment figure to have come along in years.

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Johnny Carson, then king of late-night TV, jocularly warned of an impending shortage in toilet paper.

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He changed the game with his energy and scoring after the Knicks sleepwalked through the start, and finished one basket shy of tying the team record for field goals without a miss, held by Johnny Newman and Bernard King.

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King, Little Johnny Taylor - oh yeah, my personal favorite, Bobby "Blue" Bland.

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Her next film, The Tourist, is another action thriller this time costarring Johnny Depp which means it cost the producers (Graham King and Spyglass Entertainment) a pretty penny in star salaries.

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