Word: vanna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average Soviet citizen is the star of Wheel of Fortunoff, hosted by the beautiful Vanna Red. Three contestants compete to decipher a patriotic slogan, spinning a wheel to win prizes such as a new potato harvester, a guided tour of Lenin's tomb, or a mink coat (with only a six-month wait). Competition is keen, as the consolation prize is a tanning session in scenic Chernobyl...
...Fortune" producers will bring a mock-up of the set to Princeton during the week of March 27, when 200 Tiger fortune hunters will vie for a chance to make a pilgrimage to the Los Angeles studio. Host Pat Sajak and cult-figure hostess Vanna White will not make a trip to the New Jersey campus, however...
...Vanna White's daily chores on Wheel of Fortune could most charitably be described as minimal. At the beginning of each show, the blond ex-model poses with the "fabulous prizes" on display and greets Host Pat Sajak with a cheery hello. Then she takes up her station at the puzzle board, briskly turning over lettered tiles and scooting out of the way like the ball boy at a tennis match. Yet White has become TV's most improbable cult heroine. "I've gotten tons of fan mail," she marvels. "Love letters, marriage proposals, children being named after me, which...
...Harvard Lampoon, the nation's oldest humor magazine, might have the world believe that it successfully humiliated hundreds of Princeton students by falsely telling them they would be on the popular game show Wheel of Fortune, and that they would meet celebrated hostess/cult figure Vanna White...
...really knows why, according to last week's airing of 20/20. The show's Lost, Pat Sajak, who was most recently employed as a TV weatherman in Los Angeles, attributed the show's popularity to himself. Other sources, however, said that it is the hostess of the show, Vanna White, who draws the viewers...