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	Jack Paar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paar was the program's host from 1957 to 1962; after 1959 it was known as The Jack Paar Show.
		Less than a month later Paar was convinced to return; on March 7 he opened his monologue with the now-famous line, "As I was saying before I was interrupted..." He then went on to explain his departure with typical frankness: "Leaving the show was a childish and perhaps emotional thing.
		Paar came back for another late-night show in January 1975, on ABC—this time, as one of a group of rotating hosts on ABC Wide World of Entertainment, one week out of each month.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Paar (808 words)

	Jack Paar
		Paar was often emotional and unpredictable; in 1960, a night after one of his skits had been cut from the broadcast by studio censors, he announced suddenly that he was leaving the show.
		Paar came back for another late-night show in March 1975, on ABC; this time, as one of a group of rotating hosts, one week out of each month.
		Paar died at his Greenwich, Connecticut in January, 2004, at age 85, with his daughter and wife by his side.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jack_paar.html (574 words)

	Jack Paar -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves) radio and (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) television talk show host.
		Paar came back for another late-night show in January 1973, on ABC — this time, as one of a group of rotating hosts, one week out of each month.
		Paar died at his (additional info and facts about Greenwich, Connecticut) Greenwich, Connecticut home in January 2004, at age 85, with his wife and daughter by his side.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jack_paar.htm (726 words)

	Paar, Jack
		Paar was given free rein to restore the show's luster and assembled his own freewheeling staff, including writers Jack Douglas and Paul Keyes, to give the show an extemporaneous quality.
		Paar also became friendly with the Kennedys and invited Robert Kennedy as chief counsel of the Senate Labor-Management Relations Committee to discuss his investigation of organized crime in the unions.
		Paar was also the first entertainer to originate a program from the Berlin Wall, which he did less than a month after its construction at the height of Cold War tension.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/paarjack/paarjack.htm (1310 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / TV Talk Show Pioneer Jack Paar Dies at 85 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Paar made his mark as an intelligent interviewer, with a nervous, emotional edge, and his formula of conversation mixed with vocal and stand-up comedy performances was an immediate hit with viewers.
		Paar helped launch the careers of such performers as Carol Burnett, Woody Allen and Liza Minnelli, but his guests were not limited to entertainers.
		Paar, who was often moved to tears on the show, also had a testy side, harboring a famous feud with CBS variety show host Ed Sullivan over the fees paid to guest stars.
	www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2004/01/28/tv_talk_show_pioneer_jack_paar_dies_at_85 (612 words)

	Man who made 'Tonight' show, Jack Paar, dies
		Paar's shows were as eclectic and unpredictable as he was.
		Paar was outspoken in his criticism of the Batista regime in Cuba, which he said was propped up by organized crime and gambling interests, and he never understood why the United States didn't befriend Castro.
		Paar began in radio as a teen, appeared in a handful of movies (including 1951's "Love Nest," in which he played Marilyn Monroe's boyfriend) and hosted a few game shows before "Tonight," where he followed Steve Allen and preceded Johnny Carson as host.
	www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-nwx-xpaar28.html (864 words)

	Jack Paar's Goodbyes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Leave it to Paar to choose a sentimental (and overplayed) moment to mark his final episode as he spoke to the home audience from the empty studio, with just his trusty dog by his side.
		Jack Paar's folksy style was considered seriously old-fashioned by the Seventies.
		Paar produced a couple of specials for NBC in the mid-eighties where he introduced clips from past shows.
	www.tvparty.com /tvp-AC/varpaar.html (355 words)

	American Masters . Jack Paar \| PBS
		Jack Paar began his career in broadcasting as a young radio announcer in Cleveland and throughout the Midwest.
		Paar wanted to spend more time with his wife and daughter and to branch out and travel.
		Jack Paar died on January 27th, 2004 at the age of 85.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/paar_j.html (634 words)

	Jack Paar dies; first star of late-night talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Jack Paar, the raconteur who set the tone for late-night TV with his conversational style, witty and unpredictable manner and eclectic guest lists during his tenure at NBC in the late 1950s and early '60s, died Tuesday at his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was 85.
		Paar was invariably controversial and sensitive; he was as famous for his rants about trivial things that annoyed him as he was for frequently tearing up on air.
		Paar made his last television appearance in 1997 on the CNBC talk show hosted by Charles Grodin, who was part of a circle of Paar friends and admirers that also included Regis Philbin and Tom Snyder.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2077450 (1257 words)

	Tom Shales: Remembering Jack Paar
		Jack Paar's life had been rich with experience and adventure, and during its high point, he shared those experiences with a nightly audience of 11 million people.
		Paar was much like the fellow with the dimpled chin they saw on TV -- a star who served "as a nightlight to the bathroom," he joked, and a man who loved to laugh and induce laughter in others.
		Paar was not a respecter of stuffy old traditions, and he loved to break unbreakable rules to keep the audience -- and himself -- engaged.
	www.postwritersgroup.com /archives/shal0128.htm (751 words)

	Gordie Little: I owe a great deal to the late, great Jack Paar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Jack Paar died on Jan. 27 at his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was 85.
		That was also the year Jack Paar began hosting NBC Television’s "The Tonight Show," later called "The Jack Paar Show." He hosted the show until 1962.
		Paar rolled up the papers, strolled toward the audience and asked if there was a comedian in the house.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2004/02_2004/02082004gl.htm (900 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Goodnight to Jack Paar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Jack Paar, the TV legend who was a pioneer of late-night talk shows, died yesterday at his home in Greenwich, Conn., after a long illness.
		Paar was 85 - and had been in semiretirement for almost four decades since quitting full-time television in 1965.
		Paar shifted the focus of the program from a quasi-variety show to mostly talk, in many ways breaking a trail for the whole talk-television industry that followed.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/158897p-139417c.html (505 words)

	JACK PAAR / 1918-2004 / Affable, emotional TV host turned viewers on to late-night talk
		Late-night talk-show legend Jack Paar, the droll, suave and unpredictably passionate host of "The Jack Paar Tonight Show" from 1957 to 1962 and "The Jack Paar Program" from 1962 to 1965, died after a long illness Tuesday in Greenwich, Conn. He was 85.
		Paar was a master of irony before it became a reflexive cultural pose.
		Jack Harold Paar was born in Canton, Ohio, in 1918.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/28/MNGQ04JDB91.DTL (1065 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Jack Paar
		Paar said, for example, that Winchell's "high, hysterical voice" came from "wearing too tight underwear." The feuds were never easy to quell.
		Paar then told the audience he was tired of being the center of controversy and bid them an emotional farewell, leaving an astonished Hugh Downs to carry on the show.
		Paar arranged for a detachment of American troops to be shown in the background of his televised scenes near the Brandenburg Gate.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200921 (832 words)

	Judy Garland - The Live Performances!: Judy on Television: The Jack Paar Show - From London
		This Jack Paar appearance was not received very well by the general public.
		Jack Paar has written that she was high on everything from "uppers to a little white wine and perhaps a little Vick's Vapo Rub, and that it turned out to be a marvelous show." Judy's stories were very funny, but her voice was not at it's best that night.
		Most of the dialog between Paar and the singer was both disjointed and unrevealing of her experiences abroad.
	users.deltacomm.com /rainbowz/jackpaar2.html (570 words)

	"Tonight" Legend Jack Paar Passes - Jan 27, 2004 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1997, Paar was hospitalized after undergoing triple heart bypass surgery, complicated by an embolism discovered during the operation.
		Paar was brought in to rescue the ailing Tonight Show in 1957, six months after the departure of original host Steve Allen.
		Paar helped pioneer the current format of late-night shows, inspiring the likes of Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Jay Leno and spawning countless imitators.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,13363,00.html (707 words)

	Amazon.com: Jack Paar - As I Was Saying...And More!: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Paar's Army hitch proves to be a turning point in his life--it was then that he first performed in front of an audience, and his job hosting the acts that come through to perform for the troops brought him national fame and Benny's attention.
		Paar's defining moment is explained in detail: after NBC censored a joke he made about a water closet (the British term for a restroom), Paar walked off the show; his return, a month later, is considered one of television's classic moments.
		Jack Paar not only was the innovator of the talk show format, but also had the talent to back up those staunch critics who claim he remains #1.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001XAR4A?v=glance (1773 words)

	"The Jack Paar Show" (1957) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Trivia: On 11 February 1960, Jack Paar tearfully announced that he was walking out on the show.
		This show evolved from the Steve Allen " Tonight" show which had its source from the Colgate Comedy Show in the early fifties.
		This DVD set show us how fascinating these times were and is a window in time for TV viewers to recall (if they are old enough) how unique and entertaining one could be by being.....oneself.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0050030 (419 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Jack Paar Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The show features at least two guests each night, usually including a comedian or musical guest.
		A kinescope exists of the very first broadcast of The Tonight Show (then called simply, Tonight), and Steve Allen welcomed viewers with the warning, "This show is going to last forever." So far, he has yet to be proven wrong.
		Unfortunately for Joan Rivers, her new show flopped and was immediately cancelled, and when she tried to call Johnny Carson he refused to speak to her.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Jack-Paar-Show (755 words)

	CNN.com - 'Tonight Show' pioneer Jack Paar dead at 85 - Jan. 27, 2004
		Jack Paar, who held the nation's rapt attention as he pioneered late-night talk on "The Tonight Show," then told his viewers farewell when still in his prime, died Tuesday.
		Paar also played host to Muhammad Ali when he was still known as Cassius Clay, to a pleasantly pickled Judy Garland, and to the outrageous pianist-composer Oscar Levant.
		Born in Canton, Ohio, in 1918, Jack Harold Paar left school at 16 for a job as a radio announcer, and soon found success on various stations as a comic-disc jockey.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/27/obit.paar.ap (1153 words)

	Jack Paar, talk show host, dead
		NEW YORK (AP) - Jack Paar made the "The Tonight Show" a talk show everybody talked about, setting the stage for Johnny Carson and many others before leaving television while still in his prime.
		Paar, the smart-aleck comic who pioneered late-night talk on "The Tonight Show" in 1957, died yesterday at his home in Greenwich, Conn., after a long illness, said his son-in-law, Stephen Wells.
		It was in July 1957 that Paar took over the flagging NBC late-night slot, some months after Steve Allen left with his variety show.
	www.showmenews.com /2004/Jan/20040128News021.asp (355 words)

	USATODAY.com - Former 'Tonight Show' host Jack Paar dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Talk-host legend Jack Paar, who died Tuesday at age 85 after a long illness that had left him a self-proclaimed recluse, got his start in TV in the early '50s and made occasional appearances into the '90s.
		Paar cut back on the skits and comedy routines that Allen had made famous, focusing instead on the kind of talk that would make Paar famous: erudite, sometimes biting and almost always unpredictable.
		Nervous, volatile and prone to on-air mood swings, Paar proved you didn't have to be warmly bland to succeed.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-01-27-jack-paar_x.htm (489 words)

	Judy Garland and Richard Burton on The Jack Paar Show
		The Jack Paar Collection, including a nice one from May 8, 1964 that begins with a lot of monologue jokes about LBJ being a publicity hound.
		Judy Garland is on the show, and the screen image presented here is Judy saying that no one ever calls her on the phone and just invites her to dinner.
		I love the way the two men are dressed and their different demeanor in the chairs, Paar idiotically sprawling with his suit all rumpled and Burton, with his cigarette and much more closed up posture.
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	Jack Paar, witty ‘Tonight Show’ pioneer, dead at 85 (printable version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Paar’s daughter and wife were by his side, Wells said.
		Paar had a prime-time talk show for three more seasons, then retired from television in 1965.
		Paar had taken over the flagging NBC late-night slot in July 1957; Steve Allen had departed some months earlier.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=62600 (334 words)

	[Deathwatch] Jack Paar, television talk show pioneer, 85 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The show was renamed "The Jack Paar Show," and he hosted the program until deciding to leave the nightly grind in 1962.
		Paar, who was often moved to tears on the program, later feuded with CBS variety show host Ed Sullivan over the fees paid guest stars, and ended up leaving the show for good in March 1962.
		Before joining "The Tonight Show," Paar tried his hand at acting and comedy and appeared in the 1951 movie, "Love Nest," that featured Marilyn Monroe.
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	Credits
		In the 1950s and '60s, television personality Jack Paar was welcomed into the homes of millions of Americans each night as he developed and refined the late-night talk show.
		1951 Friendly Island — (re-leased in 1953 as Down Among the Sheltering Palms) — Jack Paar drew on his real-life experience as a GI in the Pacific for this song-filled Twentieth Century Fox comedy with Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor and Gloria de Haviland.
		1957-1962 The Tonight Show (later renamed The Jack Paar Show) — This 105-minute nightly talk show on BC featured announcer Hugh Downs, celebrities from the worlds of show business and politics, and regulars such as Dody Goodman, Elsa Maxwell, Jonathan Winters, Peggy Cass, and Cliff Arquette.
	www.jackpaar.com /Career/credits.html (472 words)

	TIME.com -- Richard Corliss: That Old Feeling: Paar Excellence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Paar might not have thought twice about the ecclesiastico-scatological implications of the story, but the NBC censors did, and, without informing their star, they cut the three minutes from the broadcast.
		He walked onstage, struck a Jack Benny pose and opened with: “as I was saying before I was interrupted...” The thunderclap of laughter and applause finally died down, and he made a totally Paar apology: “When I walked off, I said there must be a better way of making a living.
		Paar had interviewed John Kennedy as a candidate in 1960; now brother Robert, the Attorney General, was on to talk about Dave Beck, the “thief” Teamsters boss.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/corliss/article/0,9565,585397,00.html (3442 words)

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