American TV scandals of the 1950s are still relevant today

Dominique 2022-03-23 09:02:13

Based on the biggest American TV scandal of the 1950s. "Blackjack" is America's biggest TV puzzle game show, and defending champion Herb Stumbles has become a national figure, but he's a poor looking man with buck teeth. Since the ratings have not broken through, the program producer gave him 70,000 yuan to lose to Van Doren on an extremely simple movie title.
Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes) comes from the most prominent academic family in the United States. He is a professor at Columbia University, with a master's degree in astrophysics, a doctorate in literature, and a handsome appearance. Van Doren's continuous defending of the title has brought him both fame and fortune. He received a bonus of more than 100,000 yuan in a short period of time with an original weekly salary of 63 yuan. Herb Stumbles made an investment, and the group leader took his money and ran away. Without the money, he threatened the show's producers by revealing the insider of the show, but the results of the investigation on the matter were sealed.
Congressional Oversight Committee investigator Richard Guwin, the first Harvard Law School graduate, suspected that there was an insider inside the seal and set out to investigate. Finally found evidence from a former game defender who sent the answer to himself by registered mail two days before the game.
When the truth was revealed, Van Doren made a public apology to the public. Not only did he lose his 50,000-year TV show guest job, he also lost his position as a professor at Columbia University.
Van Doren participated in the editing of the Encyclopedia Britannica, is now a writer, lives in Connecticut, and does not hold a teaching position; Richard Goodwin wrote a campaign speech for President Kennedy in 1960, and then served in the White House, where Rob Kennedy After being assassinated, he quit politics to become a writer and now lives in Queens; years later Dan Lai and Jack Barley joined forces on TV again and became millionaires; Feynman worked for Loft magazine; National Radio and Guinness always Not affected by this scandal.
"Want to be worshipped? Go to India and be a cow."
"How did you get into Harvard as a Jew? He got his teeth straightened."
"If someone gives you this money, plus the cover of Time magazine, the annual salary is 50,000, and you are asked to cheat in the game. , do you do it?" "No." "But I do."
"I tell the truth, if you want to listen to lies, watch TV."
"What I was trying to catch was the TV's fault, and it turned out that we were completely in control of the TV."
"The TV station and the sponsors made money, the contestants were paid well, the audience was happy, and who was hurt?
" Lun is amazing. He can bravely admit mistakes to the public and take responsibility. He is much more open and upright than those high-level officials.
In this era of entertainment to death, the truth has long become unimportant, the program has no lower limit, and the high ratings are king.
Ralph Fiennes is really handsome and temperamental. He played the villain Voldemort in the "Harry Potter" series. In addition, he also starred in "Schindler's List", "The English Patient" ", "Life and Death Reading", "The Killer Has No Vacation".

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  • Toby Stempel: I know what you're gonna accomplish, I just don't know what he's gonna accomplish.

    Herbie Stemple: You want to know what? If I do nothing else I will convince them that Herbert Stemple knows what won the God-damned Academy Award for best God-damned picture of 1955; that's what I'm gonna accomplish.

  • Albert Freedman: It's not like we're hardened criminals here. We're in show business.