Jack Paar, who kept millions of Americans up past their bedtimes as the mercurial host of the "Tonight" show in the late '50s and early '60s and set the standard for the talk-show format with his ...
NEW YORK - Jack Paar, the smart-alec comic who pioneered late-night talk on "The Tonight Show" in the 1950s and paved the way for Johnny Carson and others before walking away from television while ...