In the drama “Good Night, Oscar,” Levant is a guest on Jack Paar’s “The Tonight Show,” as an early version of the type of self-destructive celebrity so familiar nowadays, says Le Petit ...

The hot-headed yelling matches between Paar (Kevin Wheatley) and Sarnoff (Nick Strauss) are played lively and loud, and the ...

It’s 1958 and Jack Paar is hosting The Tonight Show. He’s booked his favorite guest, a pundit as hilarious as he is unpredictable: Oscar Levant, who once famously proclaimed, “There’s a ...