Word: greed
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...least to get on a game show. Avila, who began his quiz-show career in 1974 on Joker's Wild, had since appeared on shows like Jeopardy! and Sale of the Century, so he knew the ropes. But in these contestant-needy times, he actually got a call from Greed asking him to try out. Avila, a photographer, could tell the show was put together in just three weeks. "From the time I tested on Saturday to the time I taped the show on Wednesday, the rules had actually changed," he says. "Later the writers had to change things because...
...producers and network executives involved in these new shows--Millionaire, Fox's Greed, CBS' Winning Lines, NBC's Twenty One and 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...
...Stein's Money, Comedy Central's second highest-rated program. "People are terribly keyed up. The people I shake hands with after each round, their hands are soaking wet. I've seen grown men, repeatedly, cry after shows. And that's only for 5,000 bucks." On Greed, one contestant fainted. That's good television...
...Rembrandt of Schama's book is a complex man, with hubris, greed and an enormous talent for portraiture. Early on he takes the monumentally cocky step of signing only his first name-no "van Rijn"-as if he knew his paintings would be studied for centuries to come. His understanding of humans and their personae was without parallel. Schama writes, "No painter would ever understand the theatricality of social life as well as Rembrandt. He saw the actors in men and the men in actors...
Money drives the culture. Television has recently hit on the old successful formula of big-money quiz shows. The new ones give away millions to people who know which Presidents' faces appear on different dollar bills. (The most candid of these shows is called Greed.) The likable and funny fellow who is host of Win Ben Stein's Money may turn out to be the symbolic spokesperson of the age. He challenges contestants to match his wealth of information and simultaneously implies that education for its own sake is preposterous. If you're so smart--Stein asks merely by existing...