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HEEEERE’S DOC! Johnny Carson’s hanging it up...

By Steve Emmons, Cristina Lee and Helene Elliott
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HEEEERE’S DOC! Johnny Carson’s hanging it up May 22, but what’s going to happen to “Tonight Show” band leader Doc Severinsen? . . . He’ll be performing at Cypress College Thursday and Friday to raise money for the school’s music department. Then he’ll be touring and leading pops orchestras in Buffalo and Phoenix. . . . “He’s a workaholic,” says an associate. “It’s a way of life, I guess.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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