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Joanna Carson has inked a deal with Warner Books to write her autobiography. But the wealthy divorcee apparently won’t use the book to get back at ex-hubby Johnny Carson for all those barbed divorce-and-alimony comments on “The Tonight Show.”
Producer/manager Michael Viner, who set the book deal, acknowledged that it will cover the 11 years--1972 to 1983--that Joanna was married to Carson, as well as their acrimonious divorce. But that won’t be the focus, he told us.
“It is not a ‘Mommie Dearest,’ not in any way a ‘tell-all’ book,” Viner said. “It’s an autobiography covering her whole life . . . the story of a woman who scraped by all her life, who suddenly finds herself married to the king of Hollywood.”
(Joanna is simultaneously working on a Warner Books novel, “Glass Houses,” due out next year, and the untitled autobiography, which has no deadline.)
Joanna “won’t comment” on any of this, Viner added. “The last thing she wants to do is get involved in any controversy having to do with Johnny Carson.”
Meanwhile, Carson reportedly gets the tough treatment in Laurence Leamer’s “King of the Night,” due from William Morrow this summer.
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