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Subject: Game Show Host Presses His Luck too Far...
Written By: LyricBoy on 03/14/06 at 5:54 am
Game show host Peter Tomarken of the game show "Press Your Luck" passed away yesterday in a private airplane crash.
This on the heels of Maureen Stapleton;s demise. :\'(
Subject: Re: Game Show Host Presses His Luck too Far...
Written By: quirky_cat_girl on 03/14/06 at 10:31 am
Game show host Peter Tomarken of the game show "Press Your Luck" passed away yesterday in a private airplane crash.
This on the heels of Maureen Stapleton;s demise. :\'(
that is so sad! :\'( He was always a good game show host.
Subject: Re: Game Show Host Presses His Luck too Far...
Written By: gmann on 03/14/06 at 11:39 am
Damn. All the good ones are leaving us. :( "Press Your Luck" was up there along with "The Price Is Right" as favorite game shows during my formative years. Didn't some guy figure out a pattern on "PYL" that helped him win big? I don't remember the specifics.
"No whammies!"
Subject: Re: Game Show Host Presses His Luck too Far...
Written By: SingBlueSilver on 03/14/06 at 11:47 am
Yes, there was a scandal played out on PYL by a man named Michael Larsen - here's the story http://gscentral.net/larsen.htm. I remember watching a documentary on the scandal back a couple of years ago. Don't remember it exactly, but it was done in "True Hollywood Story" format - might have even been a True Hollywood Story.
Subject: Re: Game Show Host Presses His Luck too Far...
Written By: SingBlueSilver on 03/14/06 at 11:49 am
Duh, I should have read the entire article - the documentary was produced by Game Show Network (GSN).
Subject: Re: Game Show Host Presses His Luck too Far...
Written By: nally on 03/14/06 at 12:44 pm
yeah, I found out about it this morning in the newspaper. He was 63...and it was off the coast of Santa Monica where his plane crashed. Poor guy! :\'( :\'(
I have watched "PYL" a few times on GSN in recent years. In addition, it was three years ago this week when he hosted a documentary on GSN about the contestant who won over $110,000 on PYL.
R.I.P. Pete :-[
Subject: Re: Game Show Host Presses His Luck too Far...
Written By: Roadgeek on 03/14/06 at 2:01 pm
Ironic. I was thinking about him yesterday and I was actually thinking about when he would die. Weird. I'm also sad about this event too. He was a great man. :\'(
Subject: Re: Game Show Host Presses His Luck too Far...
Written By: Mushroom on 03/14/06 at 2:07 pm
What is even more sad is that Peter and his wife were members of the Angel's Flight program. They were on their way to San Diego, to transport a woman to the UCLA Medical Center when they crashed.
At least he died doing something he loved, and while trying to help out somebody else.
Subject: Re: Game Show Host Presses His Luck too Far...
Written By: whistledog on 03/16/06 at 12:08 pm
This is very sad :\'(
I grew up watching Press Your Luck. R.I.P. Mr. Tomarken
Subject: Re: Game Show Host Presses His Luck too Far...
Written By: Dagwood on 03/17/06 at 9:54 pm
Wow. What a shocker. Sad.