I HEARD A RUMOR. . .
CR Willett
Gee, Allen Funt died years ago and I do believe that Kitty also is
dead. I do think that Art is still with us.
ros...@tiac.net wrote:
>I heard that the following people have died:
>Kitty Carslile
>Art Linkletter
>Allen Funt
>Is this true?????
Greg Hicks
ros...@tiac.net wrote:
>
> I heard that the following people have died:
>
> Kitty Carslile
> Art Linkletter
> Allen Funt
>
> Is this true?????
None of those people are dead, guaranteed.
Zachariah Love,
Commissioner
The Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool
http://home.earthlink.net/~ghicks/
ros...@tiac.net
Greg Hicks
CR Willett wrote:
>
> Gee, Allen Funt died years ago and I do believe that Kitty also is
> dead. I do think that Art is still with us.
>
> ros...@tiac.net wrote:
>
Neither Funt nor Carlisle is dead. Kitty still acts, and was seen most
recently in "Six Degrees Of Seperation" as (what else) a rich old lady.
Greg Hicks
CR Willett wrote:
>
> Am I confused?? Isn't Allen Funt the guy who did Password and was
> married to Betty White??? OH no. Allen Funt was the Candid camera
> guy, Right. So who was the Password guy???? Now I gotta know.
> Help.
Allen Ludden was the host of Password, and he is most definitely dead.
CR Willett
Am I confused?? Isn't Allen Funt the guy who did Password and was
married to Betty White??? OH no. Allen Funt was the Candid camera
guy, Right. So who was the Password guy???? Now I gotta know.
Help.
Greg Hicks <ghi...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>ros...@tiac.net wrote:
>>
>> I heard that the following people have died:
>>
>> Kitty Carslile
>> Art Linkletter
>> Allen Funt
>>
>> Is this true?????
>Nope.
>None of those people are dead, guaranteed.
>Zachariah Love,
Brad Ferguson
In article <53qb3p$r...@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>, c...@sliders.com (CR
Willett) wrote:
> Gee, Allen Funt died years ago and I do believe that Kitty also is
> dead. I do think that Art is still with us.
>
>
>
>
>
> ros...@tiac.net wrote:
>
> >I heard that the following people have died:
>
> >Kitty Carslile
> >Art Linkletter
> >Allen Funt
>
> >Is this true?????
Allen Funt is still alive, but ill; he suffered a stroke a couple of years
ago and passed the candid torch to his son Peter. Kitty Carlisle is fine
and just did a benefit of some sort in New York. (She hasn't changed a
bit. Amazing.) Art Linkletter is alive and doing insurance commercials
aimed at Medicare recipients, as well as an infomercial for a collection
of his old HOUSE PARTY segments featuring interviews with kids.
And Francisco Franco is still dead.
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Bill Willoughby
ros...@tiac.net wrote:
>
> I heard that the following people have died:
>
> Kitty Carslile
> Art Linkletter
> Allen Funt
>
> Is this true?????
I am fairly certain that Allen Funt and Art Linkletter are still alive.
Kitty Carlisle may be dead.
Bill
Jas A Scot
Allen Luden was Betty White's husband. He was the one who did Password.
I'm very fortunate to have gotten his autograph before he died. Good man,
he was.
Jason
>>>Subject: Re: I HEARD A RUMOR. . .
>>>From: c...@sliders.com (CR Willett)
>>>Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 09:23:39 GMT
>>>Message-ID: <53qcfg$r...@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>
curl...@austin.ibm.com
In <53qcfg$r...@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> c...@sliders.com (CR Willett) writes:
>Am I confused?? Isn't Allen Funt the guy who did Password and was
>married to Betty White??? OH no. Allen Funt was the Candid camera
>guy, Right. So who was the Password guy???? Now I gotta know.
>Help.
>
>
Bill Willoughby
Jas A Scot wrote:
>
> Allen Luden was Betty White's husband. He was the one who did Password.
> I'm very fortunate to have gotten his autograph before he died. Good man,
> he was.
If memory serves, Betty White was not Luden's first wife. He was a
widower at the time he married her.
>
> Jason
>
> >>>Subject: Re: I HEARD A RUMOR. . .
> >>>From: c...@sliders.com (CR Willett)
> >>>Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 09:23:39 GMT
> >>>Message-ID: <53qcfg$r...@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>
>
KingBee
On 14 Oct 1996 18:35:45 GMT, curl...@austin.ibm.com wrote:
>In <53qcfg$r...@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> c...@sliders.com (CR Willett) writes:
>>Am I confused?? Isn't Allen Funt the guy who did Password and was
>>married to Betty White??? OH no. Allen Funt was the Candid camera
>>guy, Right. So who was the Password guy???? Now I gotta know.
>>Help.
>>
>>
>Allen Ludden (sp?)
Although this may mean nothing, I met Allen Ludden <sp?> when he came
to a television class at UT Film/TV dept in 1969 or 70. He was a
total asshole. Somebody asked, "Do you really feel you've contributed
to tv with password?" (Stupid question, I admit) Ludden shot back,
"I've done more than you'll ever do."
Ralph J. Repoli
KingBee wrote:
>
> On 14 Oct 1996 18:35:45 GMT, curl...@austin.ibm.com wrote:
>
> >In <53qcfg$r...@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> c...@sliders.com (CR Willett) writes:
> >>Am I confused?? Isn't Allen Funt the guy who did Password and was
> >Allen Ludden (sp?)
>
> Although this may mean nothing, I met Allen Ludden <sp?> when he came
> to a television class at UT Film/TV dept in 1969 or 70. He was a
> total asshole.Ludden shot back, "I've done more than you'll ever do."
Hello all:
Yes the very dead Ludden, who died in June 1981, was a a-hole.
Though he was more 'famous' as host of Password, Ludden was primarily an
executive during most of his TV career.
He gained 'fame' in the 1950s as a CBS suit for being the hatchet
man for the network during the Red Scare Days. It's alleged he took
delight in telling tv stars their services were no longer needed because
they were alleged to be Communists.
Probably he was 'awarded' for this 'service' by being a game-show
host in the 1960s after the blacklist were lifted.
Brad Ferguson
> Jas A Scot wrote:
> >
> > Allen Luden was Betty White's husband. He was the one who did Password.
> > I'm very fortunate to have gotten his autograph before he died. Good man,
> > he was.
>
> If memory serves, Betty White was not Luden's first wife. He was a
> widower at the time he married her.
Memory serves you well. Ludden's first wife had died after a long
illness. I think everybody liked Ludden, and when Betty White came along,
everyone was happy for the both of them. I say "everyone" because it
seemed to me that the Ludden-White wedding was a pop cult phenomenon of
the time; it was a smaller world then. Both ends of the couple were
familiar to us through television. We were happy for them.
My father took me to see them do the once-a-week prime-time version of
PASSWORD sometime around Halloween of 1963. This wasn't too long after
Allen and Betty were married. They taped about 45 minutes worth of the
game so they could cut the more boring parts later. When it was over, the
celebrities (Vivian Vance and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) quickly disappeared
and Ludden came forward to the lights, smiled, and talked to the audience
for a bit. He answered some questions and then someone shouted, "Where's
Betty?"
Well, she was right there, of course; I guess she always was, if she could
be. Betty came out from one of the wings to wild applause, Allen grinning
hugely. Betty suddenly decided to climb on top of the PASSWORD table and
stand on it to wave to everybody. She climbed up and teetered there on
her high heels, crouching a bit for balance, the wood groaning beneath
her, waving to everyone. What a sport. I've always liked her a lot,
liked them both, for that moment.
Brad Ferguson
> Although this may mean nothing, I met Allen Ludden <sp?> when he came
> to a television class at UT Film/TV dept in 1969 or 70. He was a
> total asshole. Somebody asked, "Do you really feel you've contributed
> to tv with password?" (Stupid question, I admit) Ludden shot back,
> "I've done more than you'll ever do."
You're right. It means nothing.
I wonder how it makes a person a "total asshole" to respond in kind to a
snide punk. I suspect Ludden was accurate in his prediction.
Sandra Doyle
KingBee (blue...@bga.com) wrote:
: Although this may mean nothing, I met Allen Ludden <sp?> when he came
: to a television class at UT Film/TV dept in 1969 or 70. He was a
: total asshole. Somebody asked, "Do you really feel you've contributed
: to tv with password?" (Stupid question, I admit) Ludden shot back,
: "I've done more than you'll ever do."
Really? Wow, this is the first time I've heard anything
even remotely negative about him. I've always heard tell that
he was an absolute sweetheart.
Sandra
John Lupton
>Although this may mean nothing, I met Allen Ludden <sp?> when he came
>to a television class at UT Film/TV dept in 1969 or 70. He was a
>total asshole. Somebody asked, "Do you really feel you've contributed
>to tv with password?" (Stupid question, I admit) Ludden shot back,
>"I've done more than you'll ever do."
I never met the guy, I couldn't say whether or not he was an asshole, but in
this particular instance I think it should be noted in Ludden's defense that
for many years prior to his hosting "Password", he was the host of the "GE
College Bowl" show, which pitted teams of students from different
colleges against each other...Harvard vs. Rice, for example (not a bad
match, there)...in a question-and-answer format that was undoubtedly the
most difficult and intellectual quiz show of its day, with the exception of
"What In The World" (although that wasn't really a "quiz" show). It ran from
the late 50s well into the 60s, in a late afternoon/early evening Sunday time
slot, the "GE" in the title was from its sponsor, General Electric.
My guess is that Ludden might on occasion have gotten a bit testy with folks
who saw "Password" as his only TV legacy and forgot about "College Bowl", and
that may have been behind the response he made in this case. Maybe he was a
jerk, maybe he wasn't, but I'd cut him a little slack here.
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Tom Ritchford
In article <5409u4$4...@netnews.upenn.edu> sdo...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu (Sandra Doyle) writes:
>KingBee (blue...@bga.com) wrote:
>
>: Although this may mean nothing, I met Allen Ludden <sp?> when he came
>: to a television class at UT Film/TV dept in 1969 or 70. He was a
>: total asshole. Somebody asked, "Do you really feel you've contributed
>: to tv with password?" (Stupid question, I admit) Ludden shot back,
>: "I've done more than you'll ever do."
>
> even remotely negative about him. I've always heard tell that
> he was an absolute sweetheart.
I wouldn't call that negative -- seems like a "snappy answer to
a stupid question" to me...
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