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...Stein [OCCUPATION:] Game-show host [WHAT HAPPENED:] Robbed at gunpoint of cash, credit cards and watch [SUGGESTED PUNISHMENT:] Hearing Stein's voice on a loop for 25 to life...
...forthcoming ones including CBS' $64,000 Question, ABC's Mastermind and You Don't Know Jack--admit they were caught short by Regis Philbin's success. But they are making up for it, piling on 6 1/2 hours of prime-time quizzing a week--as much as in the game-show heyday of the '50s. "Honestly, I had not been thinking about game shows before Millionaire," says Darnell. When offered a show by Dick Clark, he liked the idea right away. "I said, 'I love the idea of a group rather than one person. But let's go back...
Michael Davies, the producer who brought Millionaire to America from Britain, says he may have only another two- or three-year run, but that the game-show format will always be popular. "The idea that television is being junked up is ridiculous," he says. "Compare this to all the crap sitcoms that have come on for the past 10 years." Davies argues, pretty convincingly, that his show, no matter how simple the questions may be, is more educational, dramatic and positive than the vast majority of programming. "I find it appalling every time a professor of television at Syracuse University...
...five writers, mostly twentysomethings aspiring to work on sitcoms, are supposed to compose 20 questions a day. They make $1,500 a week and, when the show became a hit, tried to join the Writers Guild, before discovering that game-show writers in the union make only $1,100. Then they considered forming their own union until they found that there were lots of people who could write multiple-choice questions...
Everyone else in his movie is, by comparison, an easy construct--a TV host with a guilty secret; his damaged, drugged out daughter; game-show contestants, current and has-been, wrestling with the consequences of brief, cheesy fame; a bumbling cop betrayed by his good nature. These characters are all well played, but we don't fully connect with them. Or, finally, with an endless movie that mostly mistakes inflation for importance...