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Heeeere’s Johnny on iTunes. For the first time,content from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is available for digital download. Starting Tuesday,two volumes of material from Johnny Carson can be purchased from the iTunes store. A compilation edition includes highlights from the 1960s through Carson’s emotional farewell show and his memorable next-to-last show with guest Bette Midler, which aired in 1992. A second volume features 16 Tonight Show episodes with some of Carson’s favorite guests, including Don Rickles, Jay Leno, Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld, Betty White, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres in one of her first TV appearances. Roughly half the material has never been available before in any form of home video, said Jeff Sotzing, president of Carson Entertainment Group. In addition, a selection of 50 Tonight Show-derived alert tones (with such signature catchphrases as “Here’s Johnny!”, “Hi-yo!” and “We’ll be right back”) will be available. This online release follows the digitization of 4,500 hours of Tonight Show hosted by Carson during his 30-year run on NBC. Sotzing, a former Tonight Show producer (and Carson’s nephew), drew on past experience assembling the Tonight Show anniversary shows in culling material for the new releases. His dream: to put every show online for instant download. It’s an achievable goal, he said, though a slew of legal clearances remain before it can happen. Meanwhile, visitors to iTunes can expect to find the current Carson content supplemented by more Tonight Show clips as often as each month, Sotzing said.

Amanda Bynes has been hospitalized for a mental-health evaluation after deputies said she started a small fire in the driveway of a home in Southern California. Ventura County sheriff’s Capt. Don Aguilar said deputies responding to a call Monday night found Bynes standing next to the flames in the city of Thousand Oaks. The deputies determined she met the criteria for a mental-health hold and took her into custody. She can be held for up to 72 hours of observation. Aguilar said no charges have been filed. The 27-year-old former Nickelodeon actress has had several run-ins with the law in California. Earlier this month she appeared in a New York court on allegations that she chucked a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment.

Front Section, Pages 2 on 07/24/2013

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