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Article: Harry Friedman.(Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards)(National Association of Television Program Executives)(Biography)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- January 15, 2007
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By Robert Edelstein
He knows how to play the game
In 1971, Harry Friedman decided to play Beat the Clock with his professional life. He arrived in Los Angeles at age 25 with no industry contacts and gave himself six months to find a job or return to a life away from the pursuit of his dream.
True to topsy-turvy, nail-biter game-show form, Friedman's fate came down to the last 24 hours; on that final day, he talked his way into a part-time gig as a writer on Hollywood Squares .
"I absolutely would have left town," he recalls with a laugh. "I was hours away."
For the next 11 years, along with penning some Squares jokes so ...