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Over spring break, Justin P. Micomonaco '01 heard the words every daytime TV junkie dreams of: "Justin Micomonaco, come on down! You're the next contestant on the Price is Right!"
In order to be a contestant on the Price is Right, ticket holders go through a verification process before the show starts. Audience members have their photo IDs and Social Security numbers checked, then review rules for contestant eligibility and are interviewed briefly.
And their gullibility. The companies, which include American Family Enterprises (partly owned by Time Inc., publisher of TIME), Publishers Clearing House and the Reader's Digest Association, might prefer to avoid regulation. They testified that contest rules and odds are being made clearer and that the names of people who...
Even though she started in show business at age 3 1/2 (as a pint-size contestant on a TV game show called Juvenile Jury) and grew up to be the pre-eminent musical-theater star of our day, Bernadette Peters had never seen Annie Get Your Gun. So when she...
Hicks: The audience chooses the winner; after all the amateurs have stripped the hostess decides which contestant received the most and loudest applause. Except for a few randoms who can't leave the bar, the audience is really attentive and sometimes people give money to their favorite performers. The competition...