More Homage to Ken Jennings

[uncamark]

The NY Times' slightly pretentious Alessandra Stanley weighs in 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).

[rugrats1]

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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

[Robert Hutchinson]

(cough cough)

SLIGHTLY?!

. . . sorry.

[goongas]

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

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'goongas\' date=\'Jul 13 2004, 06:27 PM\'] Interviewed is Steve Beverly. [/quote]
 Thanks for the warning. I almost read it.

[adamjk]

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.

[sshuffield70]

Adam, did you fail English in high school?

The keyword there is money.

[adamjk]

Whoops, misread. My fault.

[BrandonFG]

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.

[Craig Karlberg]

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!

[rmfromfla]

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....

[uncamark]

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 and here's an online resume of his that mentions that he was a 20-time winner on "TTD."

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?