Author Topic: Your First Face to Face Meeting.... (Read 8224 times)

Neumms · « **Reply #30 on:** January 05, 2005, 01:58:54 PM »

[quote name=\'tomobrien\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 01:06 AM\']Fast forward eight years to Regis in 2000. A nice guy all around--with the contestants, their families, the staff and audience. Definitely the kind of guy you'd like to sit and have a beer with...and his comments as we taped the "closing wave" at the end of the episode were priceless.

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Wha'd he say? Wha'd he say?

chris319 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 05, 2005, 10:58:58 PM »

I've heard less-than-flattering things about Alex from people who worked on Classic Concentration.

cmjb13 · « **Reply #32 on:** January 06, 2005, 07:31:34 AM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jan 5 2005, 10:58 PM\']I've heard less-than-flattering things about Alex from people who worked on Classic Concentration.

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From what I heard, he was in his dressing room a lot of the time.

MyCapableAssistant · « **Reply #33 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:01:27 PM »

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jan 3 2005, 05:34 PM\']I am pretty sure that most on this forum have had the opportunity to meet a famous game show person or to have seen a show taping in person.

What show, or who did you first meet in the game show realm? Was it planned, or did you just happen to see them in passing at the airport? Did you get to talking with them? What was your impressions?

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Let's see... working in an AC casino afforded me the opportunity to meet several game show folks from "game show land." Totally, totally UN-planned, but memorable just the same!

All of the meetings were surprises... from one extreme to the other!!

I have an autographed photo of this one personality who I REALLY liked until... the day I saw the OTHER side of him. After that day, whenever I've looked at the photo, the only thing I remember is the rudeness he showed another guest in the hotel.
And that's a shame too, because I really DID admire this one. Oh well.

On the other end of the spectrum, two of the NICEST folks _by far_ that I've met were:
Steve Allen and his wife Jayne Meadows! Friendly, humorous, entertaining. Wonderful folks. They stayed at the hotel for approximately one week, and I spoke to them on a daily or near daily basis.

At the time I met Steve and Jayne, I wasn't into the B&W game show thing, so I hadn't asked any game show questions. But now that I AM... I can think of a few that I wish I HAD asked!!

I imagine Steve was pretty busy as he was "headlining" at the casino. Between rehearsing, and performing... and **EXERCISING** "Steverino" stayed quite busy. There wasn't much time for an extensive* chat, with him, but we did exchange the usual pleasantries on a daily to near daily basis.

As for Jayne, I saw quite a bit of her and she was every bit as friendly and courteous as her husband Steve was. Jayne was thrilled to answer any question I asked her about her career or Steve's, and she was more than happy to tell me about her SISTER'S as well ! Before she and Steve left to go back to California, she asked me to come up to her suite. When I got there she invited me inside and told me she wanted to give me two *autographed* photos; one 8"x10" glossy of her, and the other of Steve. It came as a COMPLETE surprise when she asked my last name and the correct spelling of it. I had NO clue she was intending to give me a personalized check, drawn on her and Steve's California bank account! I was astonished at this gesture! Of course, for sentimental reasons, I've never cashed their check but of everything I got, I think the most memorable came from Steve...

After exercising one morning, Steve was jogging down the hallway to his suite in these grey sweats, in stocking feet! Apparently Jayne had locked the door after he left, and when Steve tried to go in, he was unable to. Can you imagine the visual of Steve Allen begging someone to let him in? In a barely audible voice, Steve stood at the door knocking telling Jayne: "Let me in... I'm locked out!!" Probably one of those "had to be there," visuals, but it was pretty funny - I never forgot it. OH! and those thick, dark rimmed glasses!!

MikeK · « **Reply #34 on:** January 06, 2005, 01:04:32 PM »

[quote name=\'MyCapableAssistant\' date=\'Jan 6 2005, 01:01 PM\']I have an autographed photo of this one personality who I REALLY liked until... the day I saw the OTHER side of him. After that day, whenever I've looked at the photo, the only thing I remember is the rudeness he showed another guest in the hotel.
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You won't reveal this mystery person's identity? Where's the fun in that?

Mike Tennant · « **Reply #35 on:** January 06, 2005, 04:56:34 PM »

My first meeting with a GS personality was when I met Johnny Gilbert at a taping of the J! College Championship this past October. Unfortunately, it was at the very end of two long days of taping, and everyone was hustling to get out of the studio, so all he had time to do was autograph my ticket and shake my hand.

I will add that my experience (as an audience member only) with Alex Trebek at that taping was totally different from what Tom earlier described. Alex was very personable and open, talking to the audience constantly during all taping breaks (and there were many) and joking around. I didn't see any arrogance or rudeness at all.

Oh, yes. I did see Peter Tomarken in the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport during the time PYL was on CBS. Many others were going up to him and getting his autograph, but my parents wouldn't let me do the same. Finally they relented . . . at which point his flight began boarding.