labor of love

“It’s bittersweet — it gives us a chance to save our family’s finances, but you’re seeing the labor of love destroyed.”

And so it is in “Carson the Magnificent,” which is as much the definitive testimony of a Carson fan as it is a definitive biography, a decades-long labor of love.

“It was their little labor of love — mostly my labor and their love.”

“It’s a mission,” he said, “and a labor of love.”

What started as a labor of love for Reynolds has spawned two sequels.