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...Philbin agrees, and says students will crowd into one tiny apartment, often sleeping in kitchens and dining rooms...
...Students are willing to pay more, because they can," says Thomas J. Philbin, spokesperson for Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development...
...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...
...changed, signed nondisclosure agreements of a sort rarely seen outside secrecy-happy Silicon Valley. The writers have their own kitchen and bathroom and, at first, were told they would have to clean them themselves because the cleaning people would not be allowed in. Worse yet, they can never meet Philbin...
...Philbin, meanwhile, pretty much just shows up and gets paid. Last Saturday a corporate jet picked him up in Miami, where he had returned from a cruise, and flew him to New York City hours before taping because, long after the game shows are replaced by a slew of westerns, Philbin will still be a star...