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** Although, prior to Carson announcing his retirement, Helen Kushnick aggressively pushing NBC to name Leno as Carson's successor is what gets him the job in the first place, while Letterman's awkwardness in talking to executives and his refusal to get an agent to do the talking for him is part of why NBC passes him over for Leno. And Letterman's own inexperience in negotiating (which Ovitz utterly excels at) led to the one thing that could have secured him The Tonight Show — a penalty clause in his contract for if he didn't get it — is rendered useless by the "penalty" being only $1 million. Compared to the $50 million penalty clause in his CBS contract that forces NBC to let him go.
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** Although, prior to Carson announcing his retirement, Helen Kushnick aggressively pushing NBC to name Leno as Carson's successor is what gets him the job in the first place, while Letterman's awkwardness in talking to executives and his refusal to get an agent to do the talking for him is part of why NBC passes him over for Leno. And Letterman's own inexperience in negotiating (which Ovitz utterly excels at) led to the one thing that could have secured him The Tonight Show — a penalty clause in his contract for if he didn't get it — is being rendered useless by the "penalty" being only $1 million. Compared to the $50 million penalty clause in his CBS contract that forces NBC to let him go.
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** Although, prior to Carson announcing his retirement, Helen Kushnick aggressively pushing NBC to name Leno as Carson's successor is what gets him the job in the first place, while Letterman's awkwardness in talking to executives and his refusal to get an agent to do the talking for him is part of why NBC passes him over for Leno. And Letterman's own inexperience in negotiating (which Ovitz utterly excels at) led to the one thing that could have secured him The Tonight Show — a penalty clause in his contract for if he didn't get it — is rendered useless by the "penalty" being only $1 million. Compared to the $50 million penalty clause in his CBS contract that forces NBC to let him go.
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* OldMaster: Johnny Carson. Having ruled late night for decades, he had become a father figure to many a stand-up comedian especially to both Letterman and Leno who treated him as a mentor/father figure; it's Carson who Letterman turns to for advice before he finally decides to leave NBC. The fight over who becomes Carson's successor on ''The Tonight Show'' is what triggers the entire tragedy.
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* OldMaster: Johnny Carson. Having ruled late night for decades, he had become a father figure to many a stand-up comedian -- especially to both Letterman and Leno Leno, who treated him as a mentor/father figure; it's Carson who Letterman turns to for advice before he finally decides to leave NBC. The fight over who becomes Carson's successor on ''The Tonight Show'' is what triggers the entire tragedy.
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''The Late Shift'' is the 1994 non-fiction book by reporter Bill Carter of ''The New York Times'', chronicling the early 1990s conflict surrounding ''Series/TheTonightShow''. A TV film based on the book aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in 1996.
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''The Late Shift'' is the 1994 non-fiction book by reporter Bill Carter of ''The New York Times'', chronicling the early 1990s conflict surrounding ''Series/TheTonightShow''. over whether Creator/DavidLetterman or Creator/JayLeno would be given the honor of succeeding Creator/JohnnyCarson as the host of the venerable late-night institution ''Series/TheTonightShow''.
A TV film based on the book aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in1996. 1996 starring Creator/JohnMichaelHiggins as Letterman, Creator/DanielRoebuck as Leno, Creator/KathyBates as Leno's overbearing producer Helen Kushnick, and Creator/BobBalaban as NBC executive Warren Littlefield.
A TV film based on the book aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in
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** In RealLife the rift never mended between the two. Leno tried reaching out when Letterman underwent heart surgery in 2000, but Letterman never responded. When Leno got embroiled in another Late Night war -- this time with Conan O'Brian in 2010 -- Letterman took potshots at both NBC and Leno for mishandling another ''Tonight Show'' transition. The two did appear together in a 2011 Super Bowl ad with Oprah Winfrey and were polite and professional towards one another, but did not renew their friendship.
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** In RealLife the rift never mended between the two. Leno tried reaching out when Letterman underwent heart surgery in 2000, but Letterman never responded. When Leno got embroiled in another Late Night war -- this time with Conan O'Brian in 2010 -- Letterman took potshots at both NBC and Leno for mishandling another ''Tonight Show'' transition. The two did appear together in a 2011 Super Bowl ad with Oprah Winfrey and were polite and professional towards one another, but did not renew their friendship.
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** SandraBernhard appeared as herself as Letterman's guest during the opening scene. [[https://uproxx.com/tv/from-leno-to-cher-here-are-david-lettermans-biggest-celebrity-feuds/ For reasons unknown even to Bernhard, she had been banned from Letterman's shows ever since]], one possibility due to Letterman's hostility towards the book and movie exposing his fight to win the ''Tonight Show''.
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** SandraBernhard Creator/SandraBernhard appeared as herself as Letterman's guest during the opening scene. [[https://uproxx.com/tv/from-leno-to-cher-here-are-david-lettermans-biggest-celebrity-feuds/ For reasons unknown even to Bernhard, she had been banned from Letterman's shows ever since]], one possibility due to Letterman's hostility towards the book and movie exposing his fight to win the ''Tonight Show''.
