{"product_id":"the-matchless-gene-rayburn-hardcover-edition-by-adam-nedeff","title":"THE MATCHLESS GENE RAYBURN (HARDCOVER EDITION) by Adam Nedeff","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cstyle\u003e\n\u003c!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Calibri;\n\tpanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tmargin-left:0in;\n\tline-height:115%;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n--\u003e\n\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count:1\"\u003e                  \"\u003c\/span\u003eI\r\ngot interested in Gene Rayburn during the 1990s, when I was a teenager and I\r\ndiscovered a marvelous cable channel called Game Show Network. I’d been a fan\r\nof game shows my entire life, and I was excited about seeing all these shows\r\nthat I just vaguely remembered from my early childhood. My biggest surprise was\r\nhow obsessed I became with a show I had never heard of until I got Game Show\r\nNetwork; a show that was cancelled the same year I was born, funnily enough. It\r\nwas a show called \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003eMatch Game\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count:1\"\u003e                  \u003c\/span\u003eGene\r\nRayburn, of course, was the host of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003eMatch\r\nGame\u003c\/i\u003e, and I appreciated right away how different he was from other game\r\nshow hosts. He was so hammy and mischievous and physical, and he fit the show\r\nhe was hosting better than anybody I had ever seen hosting a game show. He and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003eMatch Game\u003c\/i\u003e were absolutely made for each\r\nother.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count:1\"\u003e                  \u003c\/span\u003eI\r\nthink the biggest discovery I made was the way Gene just got repeatedly\r\nsidetracked during his career. He came to New York to become a star in musical\r\ntheater. When he couldn’t find work in musical theater, he wound up becoming a\r\ndisc jockey. And after a decade of that, he decided to try being a television\r\nstar. That didn’t work out right away, so he took a job announcing a new show.\r\nWell, that turned out to be \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003eThe Tonight\r\nShow\u003c\/i\u003e. His career, right up to the end, was filled with little detours. Gene\r\nalways wound up doing something besides what he was really trying to do. John\r\nLennon was right and Gene was the proof; life is what happens when you’re\r\nmaking other plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count:1\"\u003e                  \u003c\/span\u003eThe\r\nbiggest pitfall I encountered was the dearth of materials from earlier in\r\nGene’s career. Because reruns weren’t a consideration for so long, a\r\nconsiderable chunk of the man’s work in television is just gone. Think about\r\nit—he’s best remembered for the 1970s version of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal\"\u003eMatch Game\u003c\/i\u003e, a job that he started when he was 55 years old. So\r\nfinding resources from earlier than that could be surprisingly tricky, but that\r\nmade it all the more exciting when I finally did see the occasional kinescope\r\nor hear an audio recording.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count:1\"\u003e                  \u003c\/span\u003eI\r\nthink readers will enjoy #1, the memories, if they enjoy Match Game as much as\r\nI do, and #2, the surprises. Gene really had a remarkable career outside of\r\nthat show. My hope for this book is that it makes that image on the TV screen a\r\nlittle more three-dimensional. Gene was very human, very flawed; he had his frustrations\r\nand disappointments like the rest of us.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e                -- The Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview by David C. 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