Word: merve
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...been hosting a number of programs, and Chuck Woolery, who was hosting Wheel of Fortune at that time, had taken ill for a week, so [Merv Griffin's people] asked me if I would come host his show. In 1983 they called and said, We're thinking of bringing back Jeopardy! Would you consider hosting it? I said, Would you consider paying me? And they said yes. And I said I would be happy...
...front page this week proclaiming "The Faith of Tony Blair" I thought someone had finally found a WMD. In fact he has now moved on to religion. I would much prefer our leaders to rely on science and logic rather than faith, it is less dangerous. Merv Thompson, SCARBOROUGH, ENGLAND...
...Johnny Carson was TV's aloof arbiter of taste, Merv Griffin, who died Aug. 12 at 82, was the welcoming show-biz uncle who seemed to want everyone he brought on his talk show to become a star--including Richard Pryor and George Carlin, whose careers he helped launch. He laughed at his guests' jokes, gushed at their stories, joined them in songs--perfecting an easygoing, unironic manner that was seemingly impervious to the winds of change. Far more than a TV personality, though, the former Big Band singer was also a creator and entrepreneur. In 1964 he came...
With the death of Elizabeth Murray at age 66 on Sunday, America lost one of its smartest, slyest, most exuberant painters. Merv Griffin will get longer eulogies this week. But trust me, when The Wheel of Fortune is done spinning, she's the one who will matter a great deal more. And it's precisely at this moment, when so much of the fantasy offered to us by mass culture is calculated industrial product, in formulations arrived at by Hollywood or by whichever multinational is fine-tuning the next big video game, that her work feels especially important. She stood...
...music for the "Final Jeopardy Answer" as well.) A decade later he invented his own version of hangman, creating the most successful game show in TV history, Wheel of Fortune. As usual, his involvement with the show was total; friends used to tell of being at dinner parties with Merv, where he'd stop the conversation whenever he heard a particular clich? or bon mot - another hidden phrase for Wheel of Fortune, he'd exclaim. When he died, he was in the midst of creating a new game show, Crosswords...