I hated those things. You'd suddenly look up into a corner of the ceiling and there one was, ugly as hell. Was it just going to stay there for who knows how long or was it suddenly going to swoop down and land who knows where. I recommend a two- pronged approach--can of heavy duty bug spray and a fl...

One guy was kissing female guests whenever he could. I never did game shows with any regularity so I don't recall his name. I consulted a list of 60 game show hosts and I didn't see him. He kept sayng, "Survey says ... " whatever game that was. I would doubt that women today would allow t...

Didn't he look a little like Howdy Doody (without the freckles)? Not being much of a Howdy Doody fan, I had never thought of that before, but there is something of a resemblance. Another thing I've noticed is how touchy and feely Gene is with the contestants; no doubt other game show hosts were the...

My sister and I used to love watching what we called "old game shows" on the Game Show Network in the 1990s. Our favorites were PASSWORD, MATCH GAME and WHAT's MY LINE? (especially the ones where the blindfolded panel had to guess the celebrity guest who was disguising their voice). On a ...

I was always fascinated by Gene Rayburn's cheekbones. They seemed to have a life of their own. They are rather prominent. Add in his row of teeth and he looks a bit like a ventriloquist's dummy. But he really was a wonderful game show host. It couldn't have been easy riding herd on some of the cele...

Hanna Schygulla? Thanks. I take that as quite the compliment.

I was on the old TCM boards. But what's the fun of changing your name if you tell everyone about it?
Anyway, the TCM forum is so 2022.

My mother was a huge fan of the Match Game , but I assume that might have been beginning with its first iteration, i.e. 1962-1969. My mom watched it in the mid 1960s. I think the questions were tamer then and didn't have the risque possibilities that they had later on. Of course those types of ques...

One has to remind themselves that when viewing such programs and trying to guess the top answers they have to put themselves into the time period of the show (for Match Game with Rayburn, that is the 70s and early 80s). For "Cooper" I'm surprised Jackie was #1 instead of Gary. Of course i...

This is not up to the standards of a musing, etc. It's more of a shoulder shrug or maybe a hmmm. I've been watching reruns of Match Game with Gene Rayburn recently. Every once in a while during the Super Match ($100, $250, $500) the name of a classic Hollywood star is given as an answer, sometimes a...

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Caught Le Petit Soldat last night on TCM. Alicia said it was confusing. It was, at least when it came to the political allegiances of the characters. The Wiki articles clears this up pretty well. The anti-anti-hero apparently works with a right-wing group that is against Algerian independence and is...

DAVID BOWIE The Rise and Fall Of Ziggy Stardust https://i.discogs.com/fXm2IAux6-qUW6hsJ6WuY23DKPBkGykKIvduUehEWPk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM2OTA2/MS0xMzMwMzY0MjYz/LmdpZg.jpeg From a prefect album, at least to me. I think they cut down on the ripoffs o...