Laughs: a Part of the Game for 'Feud' Host Dawson
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A6 MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2012 THE ADVOCATE-MESSENGER LOCAL/NATION WWW.AMNEWS.COM CANCER, from A1 tumor cells have cloaking mechanisms that have kept technology, said Dr. Louis the immune system from Weiner, director of George- recognizing them as town Lombardi Compre- “enemy” and going on the hensive Cancer Center. attack. “The antibody basically Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. targets this very toxic drug has developed two drugs — right to the cancer cell and one aimed at cancer cells places it inside the cancer and the other at key soldier cell where the drug can do cells of the immune system its damage” without harm- — to remove one of these in- ing healthy cells nearby, he visibility cloaks. Two studies said. involving nearly 500 people On Sunday, a large study found some tumor shrink- showed that one such drug age in up to one quarter of — Genentech’s T-DM1 — patients with lung and kid- delayed the time until can- ney cancers as well as the cer got worse in women deadly skin cancer, with very advanced breast melanoma. The treatments cancer. The drug also seems had less impact against to be improving survival, al- colon and prostate cancer. though it will take more time These are only early re- to know for sure. So far, sults — not survival com- women on the new treat- parisons or definitive tests, ment were living more than doctors warn. More testing a year longer than a com- is needed to even establish AP Photo parison group of women safety. In one study, three In this 1982 file photo provided by NBC-TV, “Family Feud” host Richard Dawson, center, gives President Reagan, played by “Tonight Show” host who were given two other patients died of a lung in- Johnny Carson, a chance at the big money as Queen Elizabeth (Rose Carr) readies herself at the buzzer during “International Family Feud” sketch drugs. flammation considered due on the show in Burbank, Calif. The “feud” pitted the Reagans against the Windsor family. Dozens of similar “smart to the treatment. bomb” drugs are in develop- However, ordinary ment. On Monday, Pfizer chemotherapy can prove Inc. plans to report on one it fatal, too, said one study is testing for certain types of leader, Dr. Julie Brahmer of Laughs: A part of the game lymphoma and leukemia. Johns Hopkins University. Only one such drug is on the “There were a few pa- market now — Adcetris, sold tients who had a complete for ‘Feud’ host Dawson by Seattle Genetics Inc. for remission” from the im- some less common types of mune system treatments lymphoma. and most patients suffered NEW YORK (AP) — tant moment in the history of her family in 1981. She endary Stork Room. It was The other big news at the few side effects, she said. Richard Dawson brought a of television” as the moment and Dawson began dating, there, in the late 1950s, he met conference involved a very “It’s great to see patients saucy, unabashedly touchy- when Dawson asked his and, after a decade together, blond bombshell Diana Dors, different approach: using feeling well. They don’t have feely style to TV game shows contestants “to guess what a they wed in 1991. (Dawson the film star who became the immune system to fight hair loss, they don’t have a as host of “Family Feud.” poll of 100 people had is survived by Gretchen and known as Britain’s answer to cancer. For more than a cen- drop in blood counts and The British-born enter- guessed would be the height their daughter Shannon, as Marilyn Monroe. They mar- tury, doctors have been try- are not as prone to infec- tainer, who died Saturday at of the average American well as two sons, Mark and ried in 1959 and divorced a ing to harness its power, but tions.” age 79 from complications woman. Gary, from his first marriage, decade later. related to esophageal cancer “Guess what they’ve and four grandchildren.) Dawson landed roles in at Ronald Reagan UCLA guessed,” sniffed Trow, “Wheel of Fortune” host U.S. comedy and variety NEAL, from A1 he said as he pointed out the Medical Center in Los Ange- harping on the meaning- Pat Sajak said Dawson’s shows in the early 1960s, in- dirt and gunk settled be- les, earlier had made his lessness of such an enter- greatest role was playing a cluding “The Steve Allen disassembling the clock and tween the gears. “ese are mark in the unlikely 1960s prise. “Guess what they’ve game show host. Show” and “The Dick Van taking it piece by piece great machines if people just sitcom hit “Hogan’s Heroes,” guessed the AVERAGE is.” “He was able to inject his Dyke Show.” Then his per- down the ladders and spiral take care of them.” which mined laughs from a Obviously, “Feud” fans unique brand of humor into formance as a military pris- staircase back to his truck. All the parts go back with Nazi POW camp whose pris- would have feuded with shows like “Family Feud,” oner in the 1965 film “King “It’s tight quarters up there Neal to his office in Stanford, oners hoodwink their cap- Trow’s dismissive attitude. Sajak said. “ He could be Rat” led to his being cast in … but these (ladders) are where he will clean, polish tors and run the place For one thing, Dawson funny and biting, mischie- “Hogan’s Heroes,” which fairly good,” Neal said. and reassemble the clock. themselves. played the show, and his du- vous and playful, but he al- truly made him a star to “Some of them (in other After it’s put back together But it is as the kissing, ties presiding over it, for ways respected the game and American audiences. clock towers) look like and installed in the new wisecracking quizmaster of laughs. treated his players with kind- After that, he was a regu- they’ve been left by the Indi- courthouse lobby, the clock’s “Feud” that he will be re- On one episode, he posed ness.” lar on “Rowan & Martin’s ans; they’re so rickety,” he gears, frames and pieces will membered. this question to a contest- Producers revived the Laugh-In” and “The New added with a laugh. be about the size of a large The show, which initially ant: “During what month of show as “The New Family Dick Van Dyke Show.” Neal estimated the clock grandfather clock, he said. ran from 1976 to 1985, pitted pregnancy does a woman Feud,” starring comedian Ray Meanwhile, he became a dates from the late 1800s e display in the lobby a pair of families against begin to look pregnant?” Combs, in 1988. Six years frequent celebrity contest- and said it’s in need of a will be a working clock, with each other as they tried to She blurted out “Septem- later, Dawson replaced ant on game shows, includ- good cleaning. e court- either one or two faces and guess the most popular an- ber,” then, too late, realized Combs at the helm, but that ing both daytime and house itself was completed possibly a smaller bell, but it swers to poll questions such this was a ridiculous re- lasted only one season. Steve prime-time versions of “The in 1835. won’t connect to the clock as “What do people give up sponse. Harvey is the current host. Match Game.” “It’s amazing how these in the tower. Neal will build when they go on a diet?” All the better for Dawson, Dawson reprised his While still a panelist on things will shine up … You separate gears and mecha- Dawson made his hearty, who couldn’t stop laughing game show character in a “The Match Game,” he wouldn’t want the inside of nisms from scratch to run soaring pronouncement of — or milking the moment much darker mood in the began on “Family Feud,” your motor to look like that,” that clock. the phrase “Survey says...” a for continued laughs from 1987 Arnold Schwarzeneg- where his popularity grew to national catchphrase among the audience. ger film “The Running Man,” such levels that he was men- the show’s fans. His swaggering, randy playing the host of a deadly tioned as a front-runner to Real food. In schools? ey He won a daytime Emmy manner (and working- TV show set in a totalitarian win the “Tonight Show” host , from A1 ROSS could easily grow their own Award in 1978 as best game bloke’s British accent) set future, where convicts try to chair as successor to Johnny food,” he said. show host. Tom Shales of him apart from other TV escape as their executioners Carson, who at the time was He was born and raised “It’s not about me. I’m The Washington Post called quizmasters, who, more stalk them. considering retirement. in Danville and has a sister just a simple guy, feeding him “the fastest, brightest often than not, tempered But long before “Feud,” Though Carson stayed put, who still lives in the house people.” and most beguilingly caustic any boisterous inclinations Dawson had gained fame as Dawson logged appear- that was his dad’s on Lex- Ross invites all who are interlocutor since the late with defiant smoothness. the fast-talking Cpl. Peter ances as a guest host. ington Avenue. He has fam- interested to consider vol- great Groucho bantered and Not Dawson, who was Newkirk on “Hogan’s He- In 1985, on Dawson ily all around Danville, he unteering time or donating parried on ‘You Bet Your overtly physical, prone to in- roes,” the CBS comedy star- ended that lengthy “Family said, some who have never tools or supplies.