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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: uncamark on July 13, 2004, 06:56:47 PM
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The NY Times' slightly pretentious Alessandra Stanley weighs in (http://\"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/arts/television/13WATC.html?th\") on, uh, what's-his-name. (Registration required.)
Her last sentence: "His perkiness may be a little irritating at times, but he is a throwback to the days when ordinary people got on television for doing well, not something shameless."
The article also contains references to "Mastermind" and Art Fleming (who Stanley calls "Jeevesian"--that's as in P.G. Wodehouse, not search engines).
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Not if you use this link, which another member brought up in another thread:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/arts/tel...tner=ALTAVISTA1 (http://\"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/arts/television/13WATC.html?ex=1090382400&en=8bc87358f325fe7c&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1\")
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(cough cough)
SLIGHTLY?!
. . . sorry.
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Here is a CNN article about winning on game shows. Interviewed is Steve Beverly.
http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/13/pf/game_sh...dex.htm?cnn=yes (http://\"http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/13/pf/game_show/index.htm?cnn=yes\")
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[quote name=\'goongas\' date=\'Jul 13 2004, 06:27 PM\'] Interviewed is Steve Beverly. [/quote]
Thanks for the warning. I almost read it. ;)
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I found this quote from the article interesting:
"Who Wants to be a Millionaire" has the best payout potential, thanks to the $10 million Super Millionaire contest, and Beverly notes that the show has given away more money than any other program on the air. The biggest game show gain, $2.18 million won by Dr. Kevin Olmstead in April 2001, also came from the "Millionaire" ranks.
That can't be right can it? I thought Price had given out the most.
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Adam, did you fail English in high school?
The keyword there is money.
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Whoops, misread. My fault.
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All I wanna know is, when did this happen:
"Jeopardy!" returned in 1984 as a syndicated show, and Mr. Trebek introduced a looser atmosphere to the set; he once even dressed up as Elvis Presley.
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Don't remember when Alex dressed as "The King of Rock & Roll" but hey, that show seemed festive in its own right before it became its usual mundame self.
Also:
The "Price is Right" wins the prize for being the easiest to win, but you won't get that million-dollar pay-off.
Not if you get the bonus spin in one of those MDS specials & make one COMPLETE revolution on it & landing on that $1.00!
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Alex dressed up as Elvis during their 2-week stint in Las Vegas back in
February, 2001. The clip was also shown on the #4000 show, and as
one of the 20th Anniversary Highlights earlier this season....
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When someone else posted the article I posted to TV Barn, Aaron Barnhart made this comment:
(Alessandra is out of her depth; the most annoying man in game show history was, of course, Allan Lichtman on "Tic Tac Dough" in 1981. -- AB)
In case you've forgotten him, here's a recent photo (http://\"http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/cmb/cmbp/gallery/gallery-050101/jpgfull/2_lichtman.jpg\") and here's an online resume of his that mentions that he was a 20-time winner on "TTD (http://\"http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/appendix/lichtman/ltap3a.htm\")."
I have to admit that I don't really remember the guy--those who do, either from the original or seeing the repeats on GSN--was he really that annoying?