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Pyramid's NASCAR Week
Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'HSquares2003\' date=\'Nov 16 2003, 06:57 PM\'] In fairness, I only saw the one Fittipaldi show Friday, and quite frankly he sucked as a celebrity. I think he just gave up altogether on trying to win. [/quote]
Tell you what, you go down to Brazil and play a word game in Portuguese and tell me how YOU would do!
Honestly, Fittipaldi claims to speak English fluently, and I'm sure he's proficient enough with it, but it's clearly a second or even a third language for him. Add to that the fact that he probably wasn't familiar with the game and yeah, he probably didn't particularly care whether he won or not. Stir briskly, and you've made yourself a "bad celebrity" cocktail, a sure recipe for awkward game play.
HSquares2003:
Ok I see your point, but why couldn't they have picked Jeff Gordon or somebody like that instead of Fittipaldi?
And, maybe Marc Summers will feature that drink on the next "Unwrapped"
(sarcasm)
clemon79:
[quote name=\'HSquares2003\' date=\'Nov 16 2003, 04:26 PM\'] Ok I see your point, but why couldn't they have picked Jeff Gordon or somebody like that instead of Fittipaldi?
And, maybe Marc Summers will feature that drink on the next "Unwrapped"
(sarcasm) [/quote]
Rest assured that the Sony people prolly only marginally had anything to do with the NASCAR people who did the show. I'm sure it was a matter of driver availability, combined with who NASCAR wanted to promote. Jeff Gordon either a) had another gig, or b) doesn't need the hype. (Hell, even I know he drives the #24 DuPont Chevrolet, and if _I_ know that, he doesn't need promoting.)
Jay Temple:
Exactly. Doubtless, there are plenty of people they would love to have on the show, especially during themed weeks, but most A-list celebs won't do game shows. Don't you think they'd kill to get James Gandolfini rather than Steve Schirippa?
In any event, I think Donny was telling the truth. As a group, the NASCAR guys played pretty well, especially in the Winner's Circle. Granted, they didn't have any of the ridiculous categories like the ones discussed under "Dumbest category ..."
I was going to say something about the celebs on the recent Soap Stars week, but getting Heather Tom from Y&R and the woman who plays Sami on DOOL is no small feat. (Still, why couldn't they get Melody Thomas Scott, a former Pyramid regular, who still plays Heather's mom on Y&R?)
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