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Friday, June 20, 2008
6/21: Glenn Beck falls down flight of stairs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
No, he wasn’t pushed. Talk-show host Glenn Beck Wednesday fell down some stairs, took Thursday off but came back Friday in (more or less) one piece. No broken bones.
Here’s the note he posted on his Web site:
A message from Glenn:
I’m not sure who pushed me down the stairs, but I’m pretty sure it was one of the two Presidential candidates.
The bad news is I had to unexpectedly take some time off work, but I will be back on radio tomorrow; the good news is that we still don’t have universal health care so my medical care was great; the best news is that there’s no new YouTube video out about my butt.
Thanks for the well wishes.
He’s seen 7 and 9 p.m. weeknights on CNN Headline News and heard from 9 to noon on WGST-AM. He came to Atlanta just a couple weeks ago.
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6/20: TBS pondering a new version of “Match Game”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This game show was once so popular, networks have tried again and again to blank it.
Atlanta-based TBS has taped a pilot this week in Los Angeles of a remake of my favorite game show of all time, “Match Game.” The version I liked (and GSN still airs) is the ’70s version, which featured the delightful interplay between host Gene Rayburn and the regulars such as Richard Dawson, Bret Sommers and Charles Nelson Reilly which reflected the ’70s bad fashion choice, casual sexism and smoking on set. Oh, the silly gameplay, sexual innuendo and Rayburn’s skinny long mike helped, too.
The show has been revived numerous times over the past 20 years but never quite successfully. According to Hollywood Reporter,, TBS is pondering an even raunchier, late-night version because it has commissioned the likes of Sarah Silverman and Norm MacDonald to be regulars. Andrew Daly (“Semi-Pro”) is hosting the pilot and the show is executive produced by Robert Smigel, who is best known as doing the cartoon bits on “Saturday Night Live” and creating Triumph the Insult Dog for Conan.
Do you think it could work in 2008?
Here’s a little nostalgia from the ’70s version:
And one of the readers here noted a very funny parody on “Saturday Night Live” a few weeks back featuring Shia LaBeouf:
