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Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on September 23, 2004, 09:53:53 PM
If you were afforded the luxury of dining with any two game show personalities still alive of your choice, whom would you choose?  If you were able to raise the dead, whom would you choose?
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: Monarx on September 23, 2004, 10:08:57 PM
Alive: Regis Philbin, I'm sure he has stories to tell.  And also... Tom Kennedy, I think he's cool.

Hon. Mention: JD Roth.  I like him. :-P

Deceased: Bill Cullen (I don't think I have to explain.) and Ray Combs, who seemed like a neat person.
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: J.R. on September 23, 2004, 10:15:37 PM
I'd go out with Summer Bartolomew and Merideth Vierra !

-Joe R.
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: The Ol' Guy on September 23, 2004, 11:03:10 PM
Jack Narz and Bill Cullen. 'nuff said. And I'd blabber like an idiot...
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: Jimmy Owen on September 23, 2004, 11:07:36 PM
Still alive?  Kitty and Orson.  Deceased? Bill Cullen and Arlene Francis.
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: MCArroyo1 on September 24, 2004, 01:21:12 AM
Alive: Tom Kennedy & Tom Bergeron
Deceased: Garry Moore and John Daly.  Interesting question...
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: DjohnsonCB on September 24, 2004, 01:28:09 AM
Alive:  Vin Scully, host of the original It Takes Two (I'd ask him, among other things, if he knows the whereabouts of any tapes of this show and his self-titled CBS talk show from early 1973), and Phyllis Newman.

Deceased:  Art James (probably) and Carol Wayne (definitely, although I might not be with both at the same time, for as the title of that Chuck Barris game suggests, "Three's A Crowd") ; )
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: MyCapableAssistant on September 24, 2004, 01:41:58 AM
[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Sep 23 2004, 07:53 PM\'] If you were afforded the luxury of dining with any two game show personalities still alive of your choice, whom would you choose?  If you were able to raise the dead, whom would you choose? [/quote]

That's a tough question to give a TWO response limit to. Just off the top
of my head I have *three: Ray Combs, Allen Ludden, and John Daly.

And in THAT order.
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: tvwxman on September 24, 2004, 08:18:11 AM
Phenomenal question. I've been fortunate/lucky in my business to have met many hosts, and most of them have been really nice , down to earth folk to just talk to/hang with....Marc Summers, Tom Bergeron, Monty Hall, Sajak, Trebek....even Chris Harrison.... but if this post is looking for a dream scenario.....

Alive? Jack Narz and Tom Kennedy.

Dead? Bill Cullen and Bobby Van.
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: SRIV94 on September 24, 2004, 10:12:41 AM
Alive--Dick Clark (assuming that I could talk to him about more than just PYRAMID or other games he's hosted), Chuck Barris (I did meet Chuckie this past June in L.A., but I'd love to pick his brain a little bit more about GONG)

Dead--Rod Roddy, Johnny Olson (surprised no one's really mentioned announcers, although Narz and Art James certainly did enough announcing in their storied careers), Bill Cullen

Doug -- and the countdown to 700 continues
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: joshg on September 24, 2004, 10:21:37 AM
If you were in Burbank in August, you could of broke bread with:

Bob Barker
Dick Clark
Tom Kennedy
Jack Narz
Betty White
Bob Stewart
-and-
everybody's favorite local game show host:

Steve Beverly

Check those sarcasm detectors!

Josh
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: pyl85 on September 24, 2004, 12:13:15 PM
Alive: Alex Trebek and Peter Tomarken

Dead: Gene Wood and Jack Barry

-Greg
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: aaron sica on September 24, 2004, 12:54:06 PM
Alive: Tom Kennedy and Peter Marshall

Muerto: Gene Rayburn and Gene Wood
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: jdhernandez on September 24, 2004, 02:07:44 PM
Quote
-and-
everybody's favorite local game show host:

Steve Beverly

...and don't forget another favorite game show...er....quiz-master:

Matt Ottinger!

Anyhoo, since this is a dream scenario, alive; I'd have to go with Peter Tomarken, of course, and Merv Griffin.

Passed on; I'd love to trade quips with Bill Cullen....and....Allen Ludden. I was going to say Rod Roddy, but I've actually dined with him. =)
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: Brandon Brooks on September 24, 2004, 04:25:03 PM
No sucking up involved, but Matt would seem like an interesting dinner guest.  
(How far is it between where you are in Michigan and Chicago, anyway?)

I would also love to do dinner with Tom Bergeron.  When I was on Hollywood Squares, I was wishing we would actually spend more time with the celbs, and he was one the people I really wanted to meet.

And though you didn't ask, I would've hands down loved to have had dinner with Mr. Cullen.  He was simply one of the most likeable game show hosts ever.

Brandon Brooks
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: Winkfan on September 24, 2004, 05:44:09 PM
Still with us: Wayne Cox (sorry you asked, eh?) and the Winkster. And like Rog, I'd babble like an idiot, too! (Honorable mention: either of the 'two Peters,' or maybe Michael Burger.)

No longer with us: Tough question, but off the top I'd go with George DeWitt (sorry you asked again, eh?) and Bud Collyer. (Honorable mention: 'Geno' Rayburn)

Cordially,
Tammy Warner--the 'Sandy Duncan of the Big Board!'
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: joshg on September 24, 2004, 06:32:15 PM
Randy West and Mark L. Walberg

@;-) Josh
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: zachhoran on September 24, 2004, 07:21:25 PM
[quote name=\'matchgame\' date=\'Sep 24 2004, 05:32 PM\'] Randy West and Mark L. Walberg

@;-) Josh [/quote]
 Some here hobnobbed with them this week or will in the next week :)
Title: Game Show Wine and Dine
Post by: SRIV94 on September 24, 2004, 09:39:08 PM
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 24 2004, 06:21 PM\'] [quote name=\'matchgame\' date=\'Sep 24 2004, 05:32 PM\'] Randy West and Mark L. Walberg

@;-) Josh [/quote]
Some here hobnobbed with them this week or will in the next week :) [/quote]
 Or did a few months ago (well, one of them anyway).  :)

Doug -- and the countdown to 700 continues