Pat Carroll, Henry Morgan, Anita Gillette, Richard Dawson
Gordon Hiltbruner from Zigzag, Oregon has with him a piece of heavy-duty cloth: “It’s a horse diaper”
Hiltbruner is a logger who works 400 acres of US Forest
Service land around the Bull Run reservoir near Portland. To protect the quality of the watershed, his
two teams of horses are required to wear canvas diapers. Hiltbruner designed the
diapers himself and in a newspaper story called them “99% effective.” In that same article, an overenthusiastic
spokesman for Portland’s Bureau of Waterworks says that the biggest remaining
pollution problem is deer, and “they’d have diapers too if we could catch
them.”
Tara Sheldon from Washington, DC won a date with a man in England: “He’s the tallest man in Great Britain” (7’5”)
Sheldon herself is a strikingly tall (6’4”) model and beauty queen who is the reigning Miss Tall Universe. Even by the standards of that pageant, now known as Miss Tall International, Sheldon remains today among the very tallest of their champions. Her date was with Christopher Greener, who is in the studio and appears after the game. Greener took advantage of his enormous height to play some international basketball and to appear in a handful of movies, including The Elephant Man (1980), in which an unusually tall performer was required. Sheldon won a contest put on by the National Enquirer, the well-known supermarket tabloid, which published a photo story of their date.
Special guest Joel Grey operates one of the studio cameras while the blindfolded panelists ask their questions.
Slapstick silliness. Grey
is best known, by far, as the flamboyantly malevolent Emcee in Cabaret,
a role for which he won a Tony Award in 1967 and an Oscar several years later
for the film version (1972). Grey and panelist Anita Gillette, being stage
performers at heart, saw their paths cross frequently. In fact, Gillette played the lead role of
Sally Bowles in Cabaret on Broadway after Grey had left the show, and
the two later performed together in a road production of the show. They also worked together on a 1970
television production of the musical George M and would even meet up in
1974 as celebrity opponents on Password.
Benny Rubin: “I baby-sat with Steve when he was two years old”
Rubin is a comedian and character actor with a long career in film, radio and television dating back to the 1920s. He worked repeatedly with many of the greats, including Jack Benny, Jerry Lewis, even The Three Stooges, but usually in small parts. Before all that he was a vaudeville performer. So were Steve’s parents, who once asked Rubin to look after their tyke while they got a bite to eat while on the road.
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