Leno had been performing stand-up comedy in a variety of venues when she found him, and afterwards, Kushnick was with him all the way to his role hosting The Tonight Show.
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The film starred Kathy Bates as Kushnick, who received an Emmy Award nomination for her role, and won a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award.
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A 1996 HBO TV movie called The Late Shift (based on Bill Carter's New York Times bestselling book of the same title) was about the network politics that occurred after the retirement of Johnny Carson from the The Tonight Show on NBC.
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Helen Kushnick (August 18, 1945 – August 28, 1996), born Helen Gorman in New York, was the agent of comedians Jimmie Walker, Elayne Boosler and Jay Leno for much of her early career.
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