Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Later Shift
A little late on the draw with this one, but hey, it's been a busy week. When the late night war broke out earlier this year between Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, there were a lot of question marks about who would go where and end up with what. However, the one thing we did know for certain was that it would lead to a book from Times columnist Bill Carter, who built his rep on 1995's The Late Shift
, the authoritative account of the First Great War after Johnny Carson's retirement from The Tonight Show and the subsequent struggle between the princes of late night -- Leno and David Letterman -- for his crown. Well, Conan's new TBS talker starts on Monday, and Carter's new book -- The War For Late Night
-- hits shelves tomorrow, promising a warts-and-all look at the behind-the-scenes politicking that saw Leno retake his Tonight Show throne, and O'Brien pack his bags for basic cable. Vanity Fair has provided a fascinating, quite-lengthy excerpt that you can check out here, and after that, you can buy the book here
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