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...vengeful god Oprah, but America tends to like its TV hosts risible: fussy Alex Trebek, funny-haired Donald Trump, screwball Kelly Ripa. "Being fallible works to my advantage," says Ricki Lake, who has gone from the queen of train-wreck talk to the cheerfully awkward M.C. of CBS's Gameshow Marathon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How To Create a Heavenly Host | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

Noting that “You can’t prepare for it overnight,” Redd said she prepared for her appearance on the gameshow by reading trivia books and practising her reflexes...

Author: By Jing Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Millionaire Game Show Nets Junior $250,000 | 2/5/2002 | See Source »

Harvard's version of a spastic gameshow host, Mandel N. Ilagan '99, has finally hit the big time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Appears on New Game Show | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...talking toys are cuddly, cute or even particularly appealing. Galoob's Mr. Gameshow ($129) features Gus Glitz, a fast-talking, lacquer-haired impresario who stands atop a blinking, bleeping game board and hosts homemade variations on Wheel of Fortune and other word games. With microphone flailing and jaw flapping, Mr. Gameshow dishes out play money and bad jokes with equal largesse: "Nice jacket. Who shot the sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Call These Toys? | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...Buckaroo Banzai. Indeed, though the Mad Max films have been elevated to popular status, Mad Max III has retained much of what makes some cult films, "cult classics." The bizarre side of life and death are captured better in the wonderfully absurd characters of this film--e.g. the hunchbacked gameshow host-executioner--than they could possibly be in a "serious" film. In other words, Mad Max films, though violent and bizarre...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Beyond Cult Films | 8/2/1985 | See Source »

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