Word: sajak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, at least they seem nice so far. Pat Sajak is the low-key, dryly sardonic host of TV's most popular game show, Wheel of Fortune. Starting next Monday, he will appear, bereft of Vanna White and those fabulous prizes, as host of the Pat Sajak Show, CBS's first late-night talk program in 17 years. Arsenio Hall, who co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the movie Coming to America, made his own TV splash as Joan Rivers' boyishly enthusiastic replacement on the Fox network's Late Show. This week he will rejoin the late-night fray...
...Sajak and Hall will compete against each other in many cities, but their main target is that unyielding edifice of late night, the Tonight show, starring Johnny Carson. The mission might seem suicidal. A gaggle of talk hosts, from Joey Bishop to Alan Thicke, have emerged over the years to challenge Carson, only to slink away in failure. But Sajak and Hall have one potential advantage: they could simply outlast Carson. After 26 years behind the desk, the NBC veteran may be nearing retirement, though neither he nor NBC will comment on whether he expects to continue beyond September. Even...
...next time Wheel of Fortune star Pat Sajak appears on prime-time television, it might be Harvard's fault...
Thanks to the efforts of the Harvard Alcohol Project, networks and Hollywood studios have begun a massive media campaign--using stars like Sajak--to "change American social norms relating to drinking and driving," says Director of the Project Jay A. Winsten...
...Project is also using more traditional methods, by prompting an increase in public service announcements encouraging use of the designated driver. Celebrities like Sajak and Dr. Joyce Brothers will serve as "talking heads" for ads during this holiday season, says Matthew D. Margo, vice-president for programming and practices of CBS' New York broadcast group...