Celesta Geyer from Orlando, FL: “I lost 433 pounds”
Mrs. Geyer was the sideshow attraction
“Dolly Dimples,” billed as “The World’s Most Beautiful Fat Lady.” She worked her
way up from small traveling circuses to eventually working for Ringling
Brothers. At one point she weighed 555
pounds. She had a heart attack in 1950,
after which her doctor gave her the simple advice, “diet or die.” That phrase would become the title of her
1967 memoir. She would live into her
eighties.
Special Guest Orson Welles has predicted the
winner of the upcoming presidential election
Welles is today considered one of the
most brilliant and innovative filmmakers of all time, but in a rocky career
with many setbacks, he was not above taking on almost any low-brow project to
pay off mounting debts. This would be
particularly true in his later life.
Here, he claims to have predicted not only the winner of the election,
but his electoral vote total and popular vote total to within a small
range. His sealed envelope is to be
opened after the election (
E209
). After
the game, Welles performs various clairvoyant tricks in the remaining time.
Garry brings out [Freddy
Renucci], who was to have been the third contestant, but they ran out of
time. Renucci would appear five weeks
later. (
E210
)
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