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When the hearings ended, the quiz shows disappeared. But they were not dead. They had merely entered a 40-year sleep, destined to reappear in our own, wildly materialistic time. And as the times are different, so are the quizzes. Today's shows are almost certainly not fixed. Not only...
Of course what the shows, old and new, have in common is the money. Top winners in the '50s won as much as $200,000, equivalent to almost $1.25 million of our money. Today's prodigies have to be satisfied with a mere $1 million--so far. Both of them...
It was life imitating art imitating life imitating art. On surveillance tapes released last month, reputed members of New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family gave The Sopranos creator David Chase the most authoritative, if unsettling, rave of his career. Amid friendly, allegedly racketeering banter, the suspects rhapsodized about the HBO...
The two-Glocks-up review amuses Chase, a Mob-movie buff from childhood, but it doesn't shock him. "I knew that contemporary wiseguys were very much influenced by the Godfather films and watched them continuously," he notes. "That becomes kind of a strange loop." Thus, in the show, Silvio...
Emmy voters are not exactly like mafiosi--the Cosa Nostra places greater emphasis on giving people what they've got coming to them--but they too honored the series last year with 16 nominations, including a stunning four of the five slots for drama writing (Chase and James Manos Jr...