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  1. Andy Williams Dead at 84

    Wed, 26 Sep 2012

    the act disbanded and Williams moved to New York, where the handsome 24-year-old became a regular performer on Steve Allen 's "The Tonight Show." Those appearances landed Williams a recording contract and began a career that earned him

  2. Zsa Zsa Gabor's Daughter Feuds with Prince Frederic

    Thu, 9 Feb 2012

    dementia-addled mother as a "self promotional tool." Among her grievances - that he claimed such luminaries as Nancy Reagan and Steve Allen would be attending the Monday night party held at Gabor's Beverly Hills home. Allen died in 2000. (Von Anhalt told

  3. Albert Brooks on Playing a Gangster and Predicting the U.S.'s Bleak Future

    Thu, 15 Sep 2011

    early on. Albert Brooks's new book, "2030." Credit: Amazon "I had an agent who said, 'Look, you get on the ' Steve Allen Show' doing comedy, you'll get all the acting you want,'" Brooks said. "Of course, five years later, I was

  4. Why Jay Leno's Not the Villain in the Conan O'Brien, 'Tonight Show' Fiasco

    Thu, 14 Jan 2010

    co-author of " The World of Jay Leno: His Humor and His Life ." "Late-night TV peaked with Johnny Carson, Jack Paar, Steve Allen and those people. After Carson died, it was not the same ball game." "I think the network executives are lazy and

  5. History Shapers We Lost This Decade

    Tue, 29 Dec 2009

    Winner 2001 Dale Earnhardt / Race Car Driver Carroll O'Connor / Actor George Harrison / Musician George Harrison (1943-2001) Isaac Stern / Violinist 2000 Tom Landry / Football Coach Steve Allen / Entertainer Charles Schulz / Cartoonist

  6. From Conan to Cable? Fans Could Make Switch

    Sun, 13 Dec 2009

    Johnny Carson did. But perhaps my dad would have said that about Carson, comparing him to earlier hosts Jack Paar or Steve Allen (the only other "Tonight Show" hosts before O'Brien and Leno). The fact remains that late night is shifting and

News

  1. Conan O'Brien Brings a New Vibe to 'The Tonight Show'

    Fri, 29 May 2009

    complete faith in his talent that he'll make this work," he says. "But when I think about the people before him, ( Steve ) Allen , (Jack) Paar, then I go, 'Wait, I know Conan O'Brien. This can't be right, because I don't know any

  2. UFO Investigators Flock to Stephenville, Texas

    Mon, 9 Feb 2009

    Sorrells told ABC News correspondent Mike Von Fremd as he showed him the location in the woods where he spotted the UFO. Steve Allen , a 50-year-old pilot, was at a campfire with friends and says the object was a mile long and half a mile wide

  3. Lights in the Sky

    Mon, 15 Sep 2008

    I look off to the east, see some very intense bright lights coming this way at a high rate of speed," witness Steve Allen said. The lights reconfigured into different formations several times, he said. "Then they burst into a flame

  4. In Memoriam -- Sept. to Dec. 2005

    Sun, 8 Jan 2006

    it's still not open fully to black people." Louis Nye , 92 -- Comic actor who was part of the ensemble cast of "The Steve Allen Show." C. Delores Tucker , 78 -- Civil rights activist who led a campaign against gangsta rap. "The moguls of

  5. Famous Friends Remember Johnny Carson

    Sun, 23 Jan 2005

    shy." Hugh Downs, newsman and former substitute host of "The Tonight Show" -- interview with ABC News Radio: " Steve Allen had it ["Tonight Show" hosting duties] for a while, two or three years I think -- and then Jack Parr for five

  6. Book Excerpt: "A Big Life In Advertising"

    Fri, 10 May 2002

    instantly. In the early days Phyllis and Bob produced live commercials for the Today show and the Tonight! show. Steve Allen was their darling. He was a master ad-libber, he loved to ham it up with the camera, and one night his Polaroid

  7. The TV Age of Hysterical Prudishness

    Fri, 27 Apr 2001

    called "The Golden Age of Television." Leonard Stern, an Emmy winner who wrote for the likes of Jackie Gleason and Steve Allen , remembers a hysterically prudish America, when a network would put the kibosh on anything that even sounded like

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Videos

  1. World News 4/03: Rutgers University Basketball Coach Fired

    Wed, 3 Apr 2013

    out Jimmy Fallon in aren't. Nice to see this is the end of an era that began with a comparatively gentler comedy of Steve Allen car. And for nearly thirty years Johnny Carson wireless. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and and Today's comedy

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    end of an era that began with a comparatively gentler comedy of Steve Allen -- car. And for nearly thirty years Johnny Carson wireless. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and -- and -- Today's
  2. Instant Index: Macy's Sale Typo Saves Consumers Thousands

    Wed, 3 Apr 2013

    leno out. Jimmy fallon in. But it's hard not to see this as the end of an era that began with a gentler comedy of steve allen , jack par, and for nearly 30 years, johnny carson. Bob and carol and ted and alice. Bob and carol and ted and al

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    the end of an era that began with a gentler comedy of steve allen , jack par, and for nearly 30 years, johnny carson. Bob and carol and ted and alice. Bob and carol and ted and
  3. GMA LIVE! (01.29.13)

    Tue, 29 Jan 2013

    there's a new game if you're down the and you by the way and I am I might be going there. I know you're gonna go Steve Allen come with me will they let us go and I don't you think is going to you can when he ran for 20/20 well we should

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    I am I might be going there. I know you're gonna go Steve Allen come with me will they let us go and I don't you think is going to you can when he ran for
  4. 'Django Unchained' Stars Discuss Controversial Movie on 'Nightline'

    Tue, 8 Jan 2013

    sleep at midnight that's for summaries the magic number and symbolically. It means a lot because that's when. Steve Allen was on that's when Jack was on that's when Johnny Carson was on. been doing this ten years he's There were times

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    the magic number and symbolically. It means a lot because that's when. Steve Allen was on that's when Jack -- was on that's when Johnny Carson was on. -- -- -- -- been doing this ten
  5. Andy Williams Dead: 'Moon River' Singer Remembered

    Wed, 26 Sep 2012

    sang "moon river." But at the academyawards that year, andy williams made it his own. Reporter: His big break the steve allen show. Which led to his own variety hour. What's your name? Donny. Reporter: And all those christmas specials

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    year, andy williams made it his own. Reporter: His big break the steve allen show. Which led to his own variety hour. What's your name? Donny. Reporter: And all those christmas specials. ♪S it ate most
  6. Man Arrested in Texas Cold Case Murder

    Wed, 25 Jul 2012

    that's what mr. Thomas is gonna have to do with how it's that combined DNA index system and this man 53 year old Steve Allen Thomas the murder. Fingerprint that was left at the crime scene as well as a DNA. Does below that to Steven tells

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    it's that combined DNA index system and this man 53 year old Steve Allen Thomas -- the murder. Fingerprint that was left at the crime scene as well as a DNA. Does below that to Steven
  7. Tony Bennett's Duets

    Sat, 10 Sep 2011

    Yeah. Okay. And that is the secret has made Tony Bennett a star since the fifties. Who else can say they were on the Steve Allen Show. And American Idol stuff. And now at 85. Tony Bennett burst into the digital age with his new album duets to

    Steve Allen found at 1:14

    star since the fifties. Who else can say they were on the Steve Allen Show. -- And American Idol stuff. And now at 85. Tony Bennett burst into the digital age with his new album duets
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  1. Steve Allen, one of the eyewitnesses in Stephenville, Texas, describes what he saw in the sky on Jan. 8, 2008.

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