When tearful Jack Paar bade his brave farewell to television's biggest late-nighttime audience, the silence that followed seemed merciful. The tantrums, the shaded vulgarity, the curious, hostile tension of his nightly soiree had come to an end. It has taken almost two months without Paar to illustrate how forceful each ingredient was. to sketch the enormity of the hole he left behind. Filling in until Johnny Carson takes over the Tonight show next fall, some of television's tinniest princes have presided over the show, and each has left the unmistakable mark of his inability to master Paar's charismatic tricks.
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