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Weirdo TV Producer, Game Show Host, Pop Songwriter and Alleged CIA Assassin Chuck Barris Dead at 87

March 22, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Chuck Barris, creator of The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game (and also possibly a paid assassin for the CIA), has died at the age of 87. But there was more to Chuck,

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Gene Gene the Dancing Machine from The Gong Show Shuffles Off at Age 82

March 14, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

If you’re of a certain vintage–and long before the kids started referring to strange things as “a real gong show,” you’ll remember that there really was a The Gong Show, a weird Chuck Barris/NBC