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Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: TimK2003 on May 20, 2007, 11:25:20 PM: After watching Quiz Show over the weekend...

You were selected to be the casting director for a movie which chronicled the life of a famous game show host...

Who, out of today's stable of actors, could play the part of these famous hosts of the past when they were in their prime?

With "Quiz Show", we saw that Christopher McDonald could do a decent Jack Barry. Who could be the spitting image (with a little help from the make-up department) of John Charles Daly, Bob Barker, Dick Clark, Bill Cullen, etc...???

Perhaps Jim Carey as Gene Rayburn???
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: wheelloon on May 21, 2007, 12:05:54 AM: Coming September of 2008:

Bob Barker, played by...

GEORGE HAMILTON!!!!!!!!WOW!11!!OMG!!

Yes, the irony evident, I at least thought it was funny. :)
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: Jimmy Owen on May 21, 2007, 12:40:34 AM: George Clooney as....gosh, I dunno, Clark Race?
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Post by: BrandonFG on May 21, 2007, 01:03:20 AM: I always thought Drew Carey could portray a 50s-era Bill Cullen, but would have to drop some pounds.
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: SamPrainito on May 21, 2007, 05:25:55 AM: I'm surprised no one has mentioned Michael J. Fox as Pat Sajak!
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: DrBear on May 21, 2007, 06:38:46 AM: Ricky Servais as Richard Dawson?
That guy who played the boring teacher in "Ferris Bueller" as Ben Stein? Oh, wait...
George Clooney could play his dad Nick...
Vin Diesel as Howie Mandel?
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: DoorNumberFour on May 21, 2007, 08:38:55 AM: Johnathon Schaech (http://\"http://static.flickr.com/18/71170212_d590d91b82_o.jpg\") as Peter Tomarken.
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: TimK2003 on May 21, 2007, 09:45:46 AM: Paul Reiser (Mad About You) as Mark DeCarlo.

Fred Savage (Wonder Years) as Fred Travelena
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: chris319 on May 21, 2007, 11:02:13 AM: David Strathairn was so good as Edward R. Murrow in "Good Night and Good Luck" that I believe he would make an excellet John Charles Daly. He just has to get that brogue down.
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: Jay Temple on May 21, 2007, 10:22:35 PM: Russell Crowe as Dick Clark (He did a good job of playing John Nash as sympathetic but not always nice.)
Harry Anderson as Bill Cullen (I think he could match Uncle Bill's delivery based on how he joked from the bench.)
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: clemon79 on May 21, 2007, 11:16:42 PM: [quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'153003\' date=\'May 21 2007, 07:22 PM\']
Russell Crowe as Dick Clark (He did a good job of playing John Nash as sympathetic but not always nice.)
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"Give only a list. If you give an illegal clue you'll hear this sound <BZZZZZZZZZZZT!!> and I'll come over here and clock you in the head with a phone."
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: SamPrainito on May 21, 2007, 11:40:06 PM: As someone on this board once said, and I'm paraphrasing: If you want to get a movie made today about game show hosts, it will have to star Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller!
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: The Ol' Guy on May 22, 2007, 06:52:27 PM: There you go...your trio for the Almost Anything Goes movie....
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: PYLdude on May 23, 2007, 01:26:37 AM: [quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'152956\' date=\'May 21 2007, 08:38 AM\']
Johnathon Schaech (http://\"http://static.flickr.com/18/71170212_d590d91b82_o.jpg\") as Peter Tomarken.
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Now that I see that, I have a question...who was going to play Tomarken in that movie where Bill Murray was Michael Larson?
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: tyshaun1 on May 23, 2007, 07:53:27 AM: [quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'153141\' date=\'May 23 2007, 01:26 AM\']
Now that I see that, I have a question...who was going to play Tomarken in that movie where Bill Murray was Michael Larson?
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If I'm not mistaken........ Peter Tomarken. And Rod Roddy would have been played by Frank Caliendo (http://\"http://youtube.com/watch?v=1_PSlF7s6Mo\").

Tyshaun
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: ITSBRY on May 23, 2007, 09:29:21 PM: [quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'152956\' date=\'May 21 2007, 08:38 AM\']
Johnathon Schaech (http://\"http://static.flickr.com/18/71170212_d590d91b82_o.jpg\") as Peter Tomarken.
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I've always thought Jerry (in the Seinfeld episode, "The Barber") was a dead ringer for Tomarken circa 1983.

http://www.tbs.com/stories/story/0,,69127,00.html (http://\"http://www.tbs.com/stories/story/0,,69127,00.html\")
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Post by: Don Howard on May 23, 2007, 09:47:33 PM: Alan Alda as Pat Sajak
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Post by: TimK2003 on May 24, 2007, 12:23:27 AM: John Edwards as John Davidson...

...or at least John Edwards' $400 crop of hair as John Davidson's hair!!!
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Post by: Jimmy Owen on May 24, 2007, 01:58:07 AM: Verne Troyer as John & Greg Rice (dual role).
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Post by: Terry K on May 24, 2007, 10:34:49 AM: How about John Laroquette as John Charles Daly? He's got the stature, the delivery and I think he could pull it off.

Tom Hanks might make a good Cullen. He's one of the most versatile actors there is.

Drew Carey might make a good Joe Garagola
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: GiraffeBoy on May 26, 2007, 08:17:20 PM: Gotta go with Dana Carvey as Regis Philbin. Put a red beard on me, and maybe I could play Doug Van Gundy (:)).
Title: "The <Game Show Host> Story"
Post by: WhammyPower on May 27, 2007, 08:39:10 AM: [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'152946\' date=\'May 20 2007, 11:40 PM\'] George Clooney as....gosh, I dunno, Clark Race? [/quote][quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'152952\' date=\'May 21 2007, 05:38 AM\'] George Clooney could play his dad Nick...[/quote]
I see him better as J. Peter... er, John O'Hurley.