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...theme music for the Final Jeopardy answer as well.) A decade later, he invented history's most successful game show, Wheel of Fortune. When he died, he was in the midst of creating a new game, Crosswords. Some called his shows lowest-common-denominator fluff, but Griffin drew those huge audiences with a real instinct for and rapport with television...
...Crosby and Sinatra, of course, became huge film stars as well as singers. Bing was voted the most popular actor of 1944 and 1945, and his Best Actor Oscar (for Going My Way) showed that he'd secured the admiration of his peers. Sinatra, who also had an Oscar (for From Here to Eternity) and a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award of all things, headlined A movies for three decades. These two were the model Elvis had to follow; and if he hadn't wanted to, his protective manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, would have made...
...curb such bloodshed. "You send out a robot to interrogate these things to see if it is, in fact, a roadside bomb or if it's just trash," Army Colonel John Castles of the 82nd Airborne's 2nd Brigade Combat Team said from Iraq last week. "They're a huge benefit to what we're trying...
...Although the Caviar House meticulously sources its eggs from specialist farms in France and the Caspian Sea in Iran, other restaurants are less picky. One upmarket restaurant manager told TIME that the growth of black market caviar threatened the trade itself: 'There is a huge black market in Russian caviar in particular," the manager said. "You get some people who come in and say 'I've got a jar of Beluga for a hundred pounds ($200)', but it's been pasteurized to preserve it. It will threaten the trade if they [are allowed to] keep fishing and fishing...
...well as his TV production company - made him immensely rich, a mogul who kept the common touch. His name became synonymous in later years with the kind of fluffy, disposable entertainment that epitomized lowest-common-denominator television in the years when the channels were few and the audience huge. One reason for that huge audience, however, was people who had a real instinct for and rapport with the medium. People like the dear boy himself...