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...pending good behavior. He became the third Commander in Chief to face the ignominy of an official impeachment investigation--not as bad as Nixon; worse than Johnson, whose impeachment was pure political payback by his cranky congressional opposition. It will forever be the asterisk after Clinton's name, a game-show question in the year 2020: Name the third American President to endure an impeachment inquiry...
...world where presidential Inaugural items are hawked on TV, it doesn't seem unusual to find two members of Britain's royal family stateside peddling their wares. While Fergie was pitching cranberry juice and Weight Watchers, her former brother-in-law was in New Orleans, along with game-show hosts and Playboy bunnies, at the annual gathering of TV execs. Prince Edward--or ED WINDSOR, as he prefers to be known in the biz--sold a series of documentaries by his Ardent Productions to CBS, including Edward on Edward, a show about his great uncle, Edward VIII, who abdicated...
...game-show audiences were riveted to their sets during Charles Van Doren's 14-week reign on NBC's Twenty-One. The bookish champ became an unlikely national hero -- until it was revealed that he had been fed answers to the show's often obscure questions, a scandal dramatized in the new film Quiz Show. Could today's intellectuals handle actual questions asked of Van Doren? Without cheating? Time put these five to the test...
Television game-show host Bob Barker, 70, describing how he became involved with "Price is Right" model Dian Parkinson. Barker said he decided to disclose the affair, which he said lasted from 1989 to 1991, because Parkinson was threatening to sue him for sexual harassment unless she was paid $8 million...
Still, TV retailers have recently turned over their studios to celebrities and fashion designers with surprising success. Talk-show host Joan Rivers, for instance, generated $30 million in sales when she appeared on QVC peddling her line of jewelry, while HSN brought in game-show star Vanna White to push her "Little Miss Vanna" cosmetic line...