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...past 15 years, Kathie Lee Gifford has been more than Regis Philbin's co-host. She's been a damn interesting spectator sport. There was the 1996 sweatshop scandal, of course, and husband Frank Gifford's 1997 tryst with a flight attendant. Also, there were her remarkable skills as a broadcaster; her combustible chemistry with Philbin; their show's unscripted, unpredictable first 20 min.; and the sometimes palpable tension between her and Michael Gelman, executive producer of Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. This week Gifford, 46, leaves it all behind. Who will replace her? It hasn't been decided...
...year stint on "Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee" ended in a mawkish display of teary "remember when..." montages and good old-fashioned bad taste. Cringe-worthy as the finale was, it did mark an undeniable watershed in morning show history: Never again would Kathie Lee and cohost Regis Philbin exchange barbs with their hapless producer, discuss Kathie Lee's latest hairstyle or mull (without irony!) the media's indecorous obsession with the Gifford children...
...Elian: Gary Coleman (whatchu talkin ?bout Fidel?) Juan Miguel Gonzalez: Ricky Martin Lazaro Gonzalez: Regis Philbin Marisleysis Gonzalez: Kathy Lee Gifford Armando Gutierrez (Family Spokesperson): Cheech Marin Greg Craig (Father's lawyer): Ed Begley Jr. Janet Reno: Bea Arthur Fidel Castro: Edward James Olmos Donato Dalyrymple: Jeff Goldblum Diane Sawyer: Cameron Diaz Bill Clinton:John Travolta Al Gore: Keanu Reeves or Abraham Lincoln...
...rather than the crotchety old guy. The first week the Pulau Tiga-based game show aired, ABC scheduled the virtually unbeatable Who Wants to Be a Millionaire against it. Survivor won in almost every audience category. The second week, Survivor won hands down. By the third week--when Regis Philbin, monochrome outfit in tatters, slunk away to lick his wounds, leaving Two Guys and a Girl and Norm to take his butt whuppin' for him--Survivor had ballooned into the biggest TV success since the last voyeur-vision landmark: Fox's gift to late-night comedians, Who Wants to Marry...
HOST The irrepressible inquisitor Regis Philbin SETTING Orwellian studio in Manhattan ELIMINATED CONTESTANT Jim Faggiana, who mistakenly identified violinist Midori as a cellist VIEWERS TUNED IN To see if they're smarter than the contestants...