Robert Holmen read that excerpt of the Henry Bushkin book I linked to and he notes two errors that I'm embarrassed I didn't catch…
- Bushkin mentions Jack Benny among the guests at a 1979 Friars Club dinner for Johnny Carson. Not likely since Benny died in 1974.
- Then he writes of a meeting in April of 1980 between Carson and ABC executives at the home of Joan Rivers, and he quotes Rivers as saying, "No one else is in the place, so feel free to talk about your secrets — how much Barbara Walters makes, how much you have to pay plastic surgeons to keep Joan Collins' boobs off the floor." Joan Collins was not an ABC star then; not until she joined the cast of Dynasty the following year.
So…is the whole book like this? Hope not.