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...game shows, one must be perversely fascinated by the sleazy minutiae of show business and highly tolerant of vulgarity. There is no longer any point in watching games to learn obscure historical facts or to see poor folks become fabulously wealthy overnight. Big money went out with Charles Van Doren and the scandals of the '50s; there has not been a game that really tested one's knowledge since Art Fleming's Jeopardy!, a cult favorite, was canceled by NBC in 1975. Aside from two skill-testing parlor games, Family Feud and The $20,000 Pyramid...
...urgent telegram from F. Donald Coggan, the Archbishop of Canterbury. When he phoned Coggan, says Pae, the Archbishop "did not put any pressure on me" but "explained the gravity of the matter." The next day one of the bishops-to-be, C. Dale Doren of Pittsburgh, arrived in Taejon and spent a fruitless week trying to get Pae to take part. "I went through a lot of agonizing soul searching, but I just could not betray my church," Pae says. In Denver, Doren released a letter from Pae giving his "consent" to Doren's consecration and expressing his opinion that...
...about people and a lot about photography, traveling the country shooting pictures for 4% years. At 21, he made his first short subject, three years later his first fictional feature-very low budget. He also audited Columbia University courses conducted by the likes of Lionel Trilling and Mark Van Doren, and became a tireless reader with catholic tastes. "I can become interested in anything," he says. "Delving into a subject, discovering facts and details-I find that easy and pleasurable...
...word games tend to be infectious). Suiting his style to subject, he rises to the sublimity of Vladimir Nabokov ("Q. What struggles these days for pride of trace in your mind?"), and caters to the acidity of Gore Vidal ("Have you read any bad books lately?"). Mark Van Doren's answers "seemed to demand the topography of poetry," and so Shenker has reproduced them in verse form. Only once, in an interview with Eugene Ionesco, does he seem to be at a loss for words, and the conversation begins to take on the character of an absurdist play...
...because, for a couple of decades, the studio has had no steady competition from other entertainment entrepreneurs and no serious, sustained criticism from an intellectual community that has its eye on what it thinks are loftier matters (there was a time when figures like Edmund Wilson and Mark Van Doren did not consider it beneath them to comment on Disney creations). Partly it is because the general audience has allowed itself to believe that the acceptable range for family fare is a narrow one, encompassing cuddly animals, bland costume pictures enlivened by painfully obvious song-and-dance numbers...