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...when he noted the smash overnight ratings for ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Dick Clark had an idea. "Not a stroke of genius," he admits. But as someone who remembers and starred on '50s network TV (American Bandstand), when such quiz programs as The $64,000 Question and 21 mesmerized viewers, Clark could recognize history repeating itself: "Game shows are so old they are new again." Next question: How could Clark get in on the revival of the action...
Fine, but will those who get their first look at Greed this Thursday think it's worth watching? The game's rules seem harder than its questions (see boxes). A team of six members tries to move up the "Tower of Greed," ascending from $25,000 to $2 million questions. One wrong answer and the team loses everything. As the prize money escalates, "terminator rounds" pit contestants against one another. The most interesting question on Greed is, Which team player will start tossing mates overboard in a mad pursuit of the one-winner-takes-all top prize...
Your coverage of the show of sensational art at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City [ART, Oct. 11] reminds us that there is no easy answer to the question What is art? It often seems that the artistic talent shown in the newspaper's comic-strip section dwarfs many of the efforts of contemporary "artists." MICHAEL LUPPNOW Port Elizabeth, South Africa...
...Sterns announced that they were separating after 21 years of marriage, my entire relationship philosophy was shaken. I had blindly assumed that just because it was working for an immature, oversexed Jewish man with bad hair, it would work for someone like me too. But now I had to question that. You see, sometimes my girlfriend, like Alison, gets mad about what I do for a living. This usually happens when I write about my attraction to Pamela Anderson Lee. Or when I find myself "assigned" yet another story about porn stars, supermodels or roller-derby queens. Or when...
...course, on this question of old age, science is still a baby. There are plenty of biologists who believe that aging and death are as inevitable as taxes. No one really knows if human longevity will come up against a fixed barrier somewhere or if, like the sound barrier, it is there only to be broken. Some gerontologists say the limit of the average life-span is 85 years; others, 95, 100, 150 and beyond. No one understands the economic barriers either. Ronald Lee, a demographer at the University of California, Berkeley, calculates that for each year...