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Article: Quiz Show.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 10, 1994
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Among the great American ideals that do not often get mentioned aloud is getting rich quick. Though the hard-work ethic receives all the publicity, it is striking it rich that is considered the inalienable right of the man in the street, always ready to trade in his two well-worn soles for four white-walled tires. But where is Lady Luck hiding?
Back in the late Fifties - and still today - one of the answers would be the quiz shows. And here now is Quiz Show, a superproduction directed by Robert Redford, which deals with the famous scandal that surrounded and scuttled Twenty-One and The $64,000 Question, and the first thing that strikes me is, "Ah, the good old ...