On Seth, Johnny and the straight man
In his occasionally salacious but richly layered biography of Johnny Carson, Henry Bushkin (Carson's longtime lawyer, compadre and acolyte) describes a party in 1979, at the home of Gina and Henry Mancini. The guests included Jack Lemmon, Gene Kelly, Roger Moore , James Stewart, Michael Cain, Cary Grant and their ilk. In Bushkin's telling, and his voice is legitimized throughout this volume by his generally having be…