Game Shows (genre)

Jamie Foxx helps nudge 'SNL' further into the 21st century

2012-12-09 07:33:00

“How black is that?” was the refrain during Jamie Foxx’s “SNL” monologue Saturday night, as he marveled at turns of events like President Obama’s being elected to a second term and the fact that the comedian was hosting...

In campaign's final weeks, Romney raised nearly $86 million

2012-12-06 16:45:00

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney raised more than $85.9 million in the last two weeks of the presidential race, his campaign announced Thursday, detailing the GOP hopeful’s final money push in his ultimately unsuccessful bid against President Obama.�...

L.A. as scene of the crime in 'The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets'

2012-11-02 06:00:00

-------------------- "The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets" A Novel By Diana Wagman Ig Publishing: 240 pp., $15.95 -------------------- A giant iguana isn't something we've come to expect as a key component in an L.A. novel, but that's what local...

Community colleges' promise meets bitter reality

2012-11-03 16:24:00

In 1971, I was a high school graduate without much money and even less of a plan. A community college campus seemed like a good place to try to figure things out, so I enrolled at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area. In two years there, I...

Talk-show host Merv Griffin's former La Quinta estate for sale

2012-06-18 13:47:00

A Moroccan-style estate that was once owned by entertainer Merv Griffin is on the market in La Quinta at $9.5 million. The 39-acre equestrian compound includes a racetrack, a 5,000-square-foot main house, four casitas, three one-bedroom staff quarters...

Alex Trebek expected to tape 'Jeopardy' despite heart attack

2012-06-24 16:36:21

Alex Trebek on the mend after heart attack

2012-06-25 21:36:06

'Slumdog Millionaire' musical in works without Danny Boyle, others

2012-05-17 16:57:00

Theater producers love turning movies into musicals, and the energetic, Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” looks like a good candidate for a screen-to-stage makeover. But after years of negotiations proved fruitless, a planned London...

Coliseum officials made $1 million in cash payments to union

2012-02-01 00:00:00

For at least five years, officials with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum passed bundles of cash totaling more than $1 million to a union representative, sometimes in a suitcase packed with $100 bills. The payments, ranging from $1,400 to $187,700 each,...

Game show host Bob Eubanks sells home

2012-04-25 13:03:00

TV game show host Bob Eubanks and his wife, Deborah James, have sold their Westlake Village house for $1.982 million. The Normandy-style home, built in 2006, sits on 3.5 acres at the end of a cul-de-sac. The single-level house features wood and stone...

Newt Gingrich creeping up on Mitt Romney in a creepy way

2012-01-19 05:30:00

Reporting from Columbia, S.C. – Newt Gingrich is surging and the guy ahead of him, Mitt Romney, as well the guy behind him, Rick Santorum, are rattled. Only days ago, Romney was sitting on a comfortable lead in South Carolina’s Republican...

Longtime home of late entertainer Ed McMahon sells for $3.475 million

2012-01-04 14:40:00

The Beverly Hills Post Office-area home that entertainer Ed McMahon fought to keep from foreclosure in a much-publicized battle in 2008 has sold in an all-cash deal for its most recent asking price of $3.475 million. Six offers came in on the property...

Ken Ober was a comedian and game show host, who maybe best known for hosting the MTV show "Remote Control" Ober was born in Brookline, Mass., July 3, 1957, but grew up largely in West Hartford, attending Norfeldt Elementary School, King Philip Middle School and Hall, class of 1976.

2013-02-12 12:06:00

Back for another birthday in two and two - game show host Chuck Woolery is 71.

2013-02-01 18:41:00

A Stanford cheerleader performs during the pre-game show at the 99th Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Tuesday, January 1, 2013. Sanford beat Wisconsin 20-14 which was the third time in a row Wisconsin had lost the Rose Bowl, and Stanford ended a 40 year stretch since their last win.

2013-01-01 00:00:00