Ray Combs' Family

[C Alliaume]

This is an excerpt from an AP wire report that ran in some of today's
papers, including "The New York Post" (which I don't normally read; I was
given someone's copy).

Tragic game-show host Ray Combs, who killed himself eight weeks ago, left
his family with at least $500,000 in debts, his widow said.

"I don't have anything," Debbie Combs told The Cincinnati Enquirer in an
interview published yesterday.

Combs, who was best known as the host of "The New Family Feud" from 1988
to 1994, hanged himself June 2 in a suburban Los Angeles hospital where he
was under observation for mental problems. He was 40.

Mrs. Combs said she and her six children, ages 5-18, have struggled ever
since, relying on Social Security and meals from a church food pantry
while lawyers try to straighten out her late husband's finances.

Their five-bedrom home was lost in a $467.675 foreclosure, she said. The
lawyers found an $82,000 debt from Combs' Cincinnati comedy club that
closed 18 months ago, assorted credit card and telephone bills, and a $600
auto license renewal fee overdue since December, Mrs. Combs said.

She said her husband lost much of their money running the Ray Combs
Cincinnati Comedy Connection in downtown Cincinnati from 1991 until it
closed in 1995.

This sounds like a good way for GSN to be a Good Samaritan and get some
notoriety -- play some interactive games with some of the proceeds going
to Combs' family. I don't know how their interactive game are played (I
don't have GSN), but it's worth thinking about...

-- Curt Alliaume

[Augie De Blieck Jr]

C Alliaume (call...@aol.com) wrote:
: This is an excerpt from an AP wire report that ran in some of today's

: papers, including "The New York Post" (which I don't normally read; I was
: given someone's copy).

It's OK. You're allowed to read the New York Post. Nobody will think
any less of you, except maybe the self-obsessed writers at ABC World News
Tonight. (It's a good story - if you're interested I'll tell you about
that one sometime. Just another good example of why not to watch network
newscasts.)

In any case, I saw the article, too. Entertainment Tonight did a piece
on them last night, as well. It's sad. Ray Combs spent too much of his
money being generous to others, it seems. His son is his spitting image.

-Augie
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