Author Bill Zehme, Johnny Carson’s last interviewer and biographer of Frank Sinatra and Andy Kaufman, has died. He was 65 and died in Chicago after a long battle with colon cancer.
Zehme was known for his ability to obtain interviews with hard-to-reach celebrities. Contains his works Intimate Strangers: Comic Profiles and Indiscretions of Very Famous Peopleas well as the biographies of Frank Sinatra, Andy Kaufman, Jay Leno, Hugh Hefner and Regis Philbin, among others.
In addition to his books, Zehme has written for Playboy, Esquire, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, among others. He was also executive producer of the network television retrospective Taxi: a party and was a consulting producer on the NBC TV special A comic salute to Andy Kaufman.
He also won a 2004 National Magazine Award for Profile Writing. In 1980 he studied at Loyola University in Chicago.
Details about survivors or memorial plans were not immediately available.
Source: Deadline
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