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Early last month Goizueta pounced again as Coca-Cola bought Merv Griffin Enterprises for an undisclosed sum, which some television analysts estimated at $200 million to $250 million. The new acquisition is expected to have earnings of $170 million this year, largely from the Merv Griffin Show and the popular game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! Coca-Cola also has shares in a number of joint ventures, including a 50% stake in a home video operation with...
...qualifies? In most cases, heredity and genealogy are of little help, Kennedys and Rockefellers excepted. So a few rules of thumb suggest themselves. A seat-for-life for an Oscar, two PEOPLE magazine covers or 100 minutes (lifetime) spent with Merv Griffin. Lesser folk, with only a guest appearance or two on Miami Vice, may serve on committees...
...Mike! Over here, Mike. Could you give us a minute? "Please, everybody, don't shove. Mike wants to answer all your questions, but he's a very hot dog right now. We just did Letterman and Merv and now Saturday Night. So he's really very tired." Sure, but just tell us, did you really pee on Letterman, Mike? "The show, not the star. Mike's been well trained. He does 110 tricks. It's all on your fact sheets." Yeah, yeah, we know. He's a seven- year-old border collie with one brown eye and one blue...
What accounts for its amazing popularity? Partly it is the elementary but engaging word game (many puzzles are devised personally by Creator Merv Griffin, who also wrote the show's theme music), partly the hypnotic allure of the wheel itself. It may also be a function of Host Sajak, whose low-key, faintly ironic style is a welcome break from most game-show gush. "As a game- show host, there's always the temptation to do a parody of one, to do a rapid- fire delivery and smile a little more," says Sajak, 39, who was a weatherman for KNBC...
quent specials; and Merv Adelson, 55, chairman...