I love it when people answer their phones during a movie.
It's time to watch rude cell-phone users sweat
By Beverly Kelley,
July 10, 2006
"Can you hear me now?" asked Jack Berry, host of the popular "Twenty One" quiz show, as an estimated 50 million Americans watched a Columbia University English instructor morph into a pop culture phenomenon, courtesy of Geritol. No contestant had beguiled the great unwashed with more telegenic magnetism than Charles, the good-looking scion of the Van Doren family.
In December 1956, after besting Herbert Stempel, Van Doren would walk off with $129,000 in prize money, a Time magazine cover story and a regular gig on NBC's "Today" show. His 15 minutes of frame would abruptly end, however, when a disgruntled Stemple ratted him out to various investigating bodies from the New York grand jury to the U.S. House of Representatives. In TV Land, it would appear; rigged results and coached contestants came standard. Congress would subsequently make quiz show-fixing a federal crime.
Source Ventura County Star
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