"You're smart, make us some money on TV"
"You're smart, make us some money on TV" That was my then-wife in 1984. We were broke. Our freelance design/pasteup clients had dried up. The TV was on all day, from 7am to 11pm at night. Which meant daytime television, and game shows. She thought since I knew a lot of stuff, having read books, I could ace it. Sure. I was broke enough to think that. So I started making calls to find out how it worked. Which led to auditions for $20,000 Pyramid, and Wheel of Fortune. $20,000 Pyramid The Pyramid audition in an anonymous conference room somewhere, with about 30-40 people. Everyone had to stand up and give the elevator-pitch. Oh shit. Now I was sweating. My turn came, I stood up, and blathered something that was like a tire going flat on the roadside. Now I got a master-class in Game Show Auditions. First was a quietly elegant 50ish woman, emerald-green shirtwaist dress, hair pulled back in a French Twist. "Hello, I'm [X]. I became fascinated by nouvelle cuisine,...