Word: game
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Entering Saturday's game against Union, the Harvard men's hockey team's offense was mired in its biggest slump of the season. One of the players it counts on most, junior winger Chris Bala had notched just one goal on the year...
...game-show fan who has bitterly counted the prizes he or she should have won instead of those idiot contestants!, the chance to compete directly is alluring. On the other hand, there is a second-class element to webRIOT online: the TV contestants win bigger daily prizes (all-expense-paid vacations, for instance) and watching a show just because your name might appear on the air is a tad close to Romper Room. But, says MTV Online vice president Rick Holzman, viewers downloaded more than 750,000 copies of the game software before the show's premiere, and while...
...famously monotone disintegrate into squeaky phonemes. But as he talks about his father, the noted conservative economist who died two months ago, he loses it. The late Herbert Stein forced the Watergate to install a satellite dish in his apartment so he could watch his son's Comedy Central game show, Win Ben Stein's Money. "After every show, I'd call my father and ask him the questions," Stein says. "He'd always say he didn't know the ones I got wrong, even...
Stein's father understood the depths of his son's neuroticism. Although he wins more than three-fourths of the $5,000 trivia contests on the Emmy Award-winning game show, Stein is tortured by his losses. That mix of shock, disbelief and self-hatred isn't rehearsed; he says he sees a $250-an-hour psychiatrist to deal with his fear of losing. Stein's wallet is stuffed with affirming notes from the psychiatrist that say things like "This game does not measure your real intelligence, which no one would ever question" and "You are a star, and they...
...being recognized and, when that fails, in introducing himself to the wait staff by his full name. This week he hopes to up his recognition factor with Turn Ben Stein On, a talk show that airs on Comedy Central Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. E.T., right after his game show. The new show gathers, with mixed results, a small group of culturemakers to discuss a single topic, like high school or growing up in Hollywood. And Stein is trying to develop a sitcom and launch a trivia website called Ben Stein's University. He also sings the theme song...