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If you believe in such things, Johnny Carson is likely spinning in his grave right now. The great star of The Tonight Show is about to be revealed, the good, the bad and especially the ugly and unsavory, in a memoir.

Johnny Carson's attorney Henry Bushkin is writing a book about the star, spilling all the secrets that he kept confidential while Johnny was alive, and it's all legal. Bushkin is looking for one more way to cash in on his client, one he soaked plenty when Johnny was alive.

Carson is a beloved TV icon, maybe the most beloved after Lucille Ball, but nobody believes that the affable, funny man who came into our bedrooms every night was a sweetheart. He was known to hold a grudge, to be snippy and cranky on occasion, and to have a temper.

According to Bushkin, Carson was a sad, miserable man who was never happy even with all his great success. He sheds light on Johnny's nasty divorces, talking about how Johnny was unfaithful and mean. Bushkin even suggests that all of Johnny's cruelty was because he had had a "toxic sort of mother."

This all sounds very juicy, but very, very sad. Kind of like that Albert Goldman biography of Elvis Presley that came out after his death that was filled with images of the King that were far from flattering.