By MICHAEL SMITH Movie Critic on Jul 2, 2009, at 8:26 AM Updated on 7/02 at 8:26 AM
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I know it seems odd that I'd be talking to my 9-year-old daughter about the deaths of Karl Malden and Ed McMahon, but we were just talking about each of them last week.
It was the annual viewing of my 3-DVD collection of great clips, sketches and more from "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson," to which I've introduced my daughter and she has come to enjoy almost as much as I do.
She started out amused with all of Johnny animal antics ("Daddy, it's the one where the marmoset tinkles on his head!"), and has come to repeat comedy bits like Carnac the Magnificent. I couldn't be more proud.
So with that many hours of "The Tonight Show," you know why my daughter has seen McMahon, why she can tell you the significance of "Heeeeeere's Johnny!" But why Karl Malden, you ask?
Carson was a hoot in so many sketches, and one character he revived often was his parody of Malden, with his enormous schnozz and wearing a trench coat, from his 1970s American Express travelers checks commercials.
We'll always have great pictures like "A Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront" and "Patton" to remember Malden by. Look for "Baby Doll" if one of the cable channels plays it this week.
But Johnny and Ed together, that who I really miss. Ed just left us last week, and Johnny only died a few years ago. But I've missed them greatly for 17 years, since that last show in 1992.
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