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<text id=92TT2201>
<title>
Oct. 05, 1992: Jay's Jinx
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Oct. 05, 1992 LYING:Everybody's Doin' It (Honest)
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 25
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Jay's Jinx
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<p>The king of late night loses his manager after 17 profitable
years
</p>
<p> Even in Hollywood, few would recognize Helen Kushnick if they
passed her on the street. But they all know the talented young
comic she discovered two decades ago and guided to glory.
Weathering a Sophoclean series of tragedies (her son's death
from AIDS in 1983, her husband's death from cancer in 1989),
Kushnick became the executive producer of the legendary Tonight
show when her protege, Jay Leno, succeeded Johnny Carson in
May. Then with an almost willful recklessness, Kushnick
reportedly began demanding that stars who wanted to appear with
Leno on the Tonight show had to boycott his competitors --
especially Arsenio Hall. The blatant violation of Hollywood's
get along-go along culture led to the inevitable: Kushnick was
ousted from her job by NBC last week. Leno said in a release
that her removal was unwarranted, but otherwise kept silent --
perhaps realizing that the best thing to do at this point was
go on with the show.
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</body></article>
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