On Sunday, I lost one of my best Match Game Super Match players and one of my favorite people. My friend Damien Bona, the only player to answer Jim Brady for: died of complications from cardiac arrest, just a couple of months before his 57th birthday. If you were defining “heart” as something more than [...]
Not surprisingly, the official $500 response for: was “Diamond Ring,” an evergreen answer if there ever was one. According to Gemnation and a couple of other sources, the De Beers catchphrase, “A diamond is forever,” has been around since Frances Gerety of ad agency N.W. Ayer & Son launched it in 1947. That was 65 [...]
I had two articles in Variety earlier this month. In its “Consumer Electronics Show 2012” special section, I wrote UltraViolet: The story so far. In it, I describe UltraViolet (in brief, it’s a cloud-based digital locker for movies and TV shows that all the MPAA studios, except Disney, is promoting as a means to make [...]
Today the Economist’s Johnson blog posted a story Issues with “issues” that looks at how the word “issue” has become the replacement word of choice for “problem.” The post’s author R.L.G. (AKA “Johnson”) writes: A problem is a type of issue, of course: in politics we talk about the Iranian nuclear issue, the unemployment issue, [...]
Every few years or so, I DVR old Match Game ’7x episodes from GSN to watch while I eat lunch, and recently I started taking photos of the “Audience Match” portion of the “Super Match” round. After the contestant with the most celebrity matches prevailed, host Gene Rayburn, with his skinny microphone, bid the loser [...]
