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	Chuck Barris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chuck Barris (born Charles Hirsch Barris in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 3, 1929) was a successful American game show producer during the 1960s and 1970s.
		Barris had a younger sister and a mother and father who passed away by the time he was a teenager.
		Barris first hit the jackpot in 1965 with his first game-show creation, The Dating Game on ABC, hosted by Jim Lange, in which three bachelors or bachelorettes competed for the favor of a contestant blocked from their view.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chuck_Barris (788 words)

	Encyclopedia: Chuck Barris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Barris got his start in the television business as a page and later staffer at NBC in New York, and eventually worked backstage at the TV music show American Bandstand, originally as a standards-and-practices person for ABC.
		Barris soon himself became a music-industry figure, writing a top-ten hit song called Palisades Park in 1962, which was performed by Freddy Cannon.
		Chuck Barris, born on June 3, 1929, was a successful American game show producer during the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chuck-Barris (1960 words)

	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is based on an autobiography by Chuck Barris of the same name (ISBN 0786888083), adapted by Charlie Kaufman.
		The movie tells the life story of Chuck Barris, who was a game show host and, according to Barris's autobiography, a CIA hitman.
		Barris was largely responsible for the creation of several television game shows, including The Dating Game, The Gong Show, and The Newlywed Game.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confessions_of_a_Dangerous_Mind (400 words)

	Chuck Barris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chuck Barris (born Charles Hirsch Barris on June 3, 1929) was a successful game show producer during the 1960s and 1970s.
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Chuck_Barris.html (325 words)

	Confessions d'un homme dangereux (Confessions of a dangerous mind), le site officiel du film en DVD et vidéo.
		C'est que Chuck Barris a trouvé un filon : jouer sur les facultés d'identification du spectateur, permettre à celui-ci de partager pleinement les expériences des concurrents : trac, embarras, soulagement, hilarité, euphorie.
		Chuck Barris change de style de vie, s'offre une garçonnière, une nouvelle voiture, multiplie les aventures, parfois lourdes de conséquences.
		Chuck Barris devra, par la même occasion, abattre son contrôleur, Yuri Slasky, responsable de la mort de quantité d'agents américains infiltrés à l'Est.
	www.tf1video.fr /confessions/chuck/index.htm (2442 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| Interview: Chuck Barris
		When preparing for lunch with Chuck Barris, a man who has written candidly about his secret life as a CIA assassin, some apprehension is to be expected.
		Intertwined with a comprehensive account of how Barris became the King Midas of disposable TV is a darker narrative that reveals him fraternising with femmes fatales, hit-men and CIA brass in such exotic locations as West Berlin, Mexico City and Henley-on-Thames.
		Barris might well be wondering if the bad press could ease off: in the past few years, he has weathered lung cancer, a divorce and the tragic loss of his adult daughter.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,906503,00.html (1095 words)

	The Straight Dope: Was Chuck Barris a hit man for the CIA? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Barris is the showbiz entrepreneur who created The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show (the last of which he hosted), hits in the late 1960s and '70s that were thought to represent the absolute low in schlock TV, at least until everybody got a load of Temptation Island.
		Barris writes that after chaperoning a winning couple from The Dating Game on their dream date in some foreign capital, he'd slip away, blow somebody's brains out, and then head back to Los Angeles to contend with those A-holes at the network.
		Of the CIA yarn, Barris coyly says in interviews, "I can't really confirm or deny it"--about as close as he'll come to admitting he cooked the whole thing up as a rebuttal to critics who thought his shows were atrocities.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/030207.html (480 words)

	Millionaire Playboy™ : Lifestyle: The Man: Chuck Barris
		Chuck Barris is famous for creating many popular game shows of the 1970's; including The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show, which he also hosted.
		With the recent release of a movie based on his autobiography, Barris has returned to the spotlight after almost 20 years in hiding.
		The big "controversy" surrounding the book/film is that in it, Barris claims he spent many years as an assassin for the CIA.
	www.millionaireplayboy.com /lifestyle/chuckb.php (594 words)

	Extratv.com : Chuck Barris
		The inimitable Chuck Barris ruled the TV airwaves in the 70’s with his outrageous, and outrageously successful, “Gong Show.” He says, “It was a great time, it was four years of fun."
		While Chuck had enjoyed tremendous behind-the-scenes success with shows he created - "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game" among them - it was the “Gong Show” that put him in the spotlight, though not always in a positive light.
		Chuck pushed the envelope with risqué acts, like two young girls being sexually suggestive with Popsicles.
	extratv.warnerbros.com /dailynews/extra/02_02/02_04b.html (334 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Chuck Barris: I'm not answering that question in the sense that that's not important to me. What's important is whether the book's a good book or if the film's a good film.
		Chuck Barris: IT was a cathartic exercise and not difficult to write.
		Chuck Barris: You know, I can't imagine myself as a young producer now because I'm so far out of it and haven't been in it for quite some time.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/03/special/books/sp_books_barris012103.htm (1574 words)

	Chuck Barris - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind : An Unauthorized Autobiography - Book
		I always thought Chuck Barris did not deserve all the vile and spiteful things that were said about him during his television producer days by critics and so-called media experts.
		That Barris is just plain wired differently from normal people is obvious to anyone who ever saw "The Gong Show." However accepting that what he wrote in "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" could all be true is certainly a stretch.
		Barris makes no apologies for his behavior, which I found particularly interesting because to do what he did one would have to be able to be an emotionless sociopath or psychopath.
	www.bookcomplex.us /0786888083.html (849 words)

	Most dangerous game / 'Confessions' captures the dark side of 'Gong Show' host Chuck Barris
		That's right: Barris claims that in the years he was running television's most popular game shows, he was sneaking off every so often to Eastern Europe or Latin America to kill communists and revolutionaries.
		Barris, who once wrote a commercially successful novel, may think he's merely indulging his creative side with the assassin story -- or breaking the facade of idiot good nature that we associate with game-show hosts -- or revealing the hostility beneath that facade.
		In its rush to present Barris' life as one steaming pile of garbage, lived under a film noir cloud, the movie dismisses his game shows as a bright delusion, as kitsch.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/24/DD141066.DTL&type=movies (873 words)

	extended playhouse 16 . chuck barris
		Chuck Barris Presents Themes From TV Game Shows is a long out of print rarity which has been “reissued” on an Australian label, TV City.
		Barris wrote (or cowrote) nearly all of the music he used for the themes to his innovative game shows.
		Having authored all the themes, Barris was in the unusual position to issue a compilation by 1973 (the next collection of game show theme songs didn’t happen until late in the 1990s).
	www.inspiracy.com /ep/ep16.html (832 words)

	Chapomatic » Chuck Barris Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Barris can hide so well he spent decades in the CIA and wrote a book about the hundred people he killed there–and the people in the CIA today didn’t know anything about it.
		Chuck Barris once made a game show using only a stapler and a sock puppet.
		Chuck Barris is so tough a negotiator that he convinced the Shaolin Monks to audition and win roles in the Rockette chorus line in exhange for a used Q-Tip.
	gmapalumni.org /chapomatic/?p=1456 (384 words)

	IGN: Chuck Barris The Hitmaker
		Mention the name Chuck Barris to the average person on the street and "Hey, isn't he the guy from The Gong Show?" will, without question, be the most frequent response.
		You see, Barris penned a little ditty entitled "Palisades Park." The song, in its initial recorded entity, was sung by then teen idol Freddy Cannon and it peaked the charts at #2.
		Granted the payola scandal may have interfered with Chuck's future in songwriting, it was also one of the catalysts that led him to pen the hit single in the first place.
	music.ign.com /articles/383/383662p1.html (932 words)

	The Gong Show
		Infamous game show producer Chuck Barris and variety show producer Chris Bearde ('The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour') were producing 'The Bobby Vinton Show' for syndication when they sold ABC on the idea of a daily talent / game show.
		Chuck Barris stated that he kept the prize amount low ($516.32) to keep it from being too important to anyone.
		Chuck Barris!" girls (the one that usually wore a bikini, very well endowed) was a porn star in the seventies.
	www.tvparty.com /recgong.html (1066 words)

	Salon Directory
		Chuck Barris, the King of Schlock, the Baron of Bad Taste, the Ayatollah of Trasherola, remembered now mostly as the loopy, squinty-eyed host of "The Gong Show," is the godfather of reality TV.
		Barris also changed the industry behind the scenes -- an accidental innovation that's had an even greater impact on television than his on-screen successes, and will continue to do so long after the reality craze fades, if it ever does.
		When one of his shows, "The Parent Game," was dropped from the NBC schedule before the first episode aired in 1972, Barris bought back the pilot and sold the show to local stations one at a time.
	dir.salon.com /story/people/bc/2001/03/06/chuck_barris/index.html (327 words)

	IGN: Being Chuck Barris
		Barris broke into a jovial laugh and thus the ice was broken.
		Barris, for those who've been living in a cultural vacuum, was one of the preeminent creators and producers of game shows on television.
		With Barris' lothario-inclined prowess confirmed by his wife, it was time to get into the "other stuff" his book (and the movie) is filled with.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/383/383542p1.html (1757 words)

	George Clooney Directs His First Film
		Barris became a household name in the 1970's when he starred in perhaps the craziest of his TV creations, "The Gong Show." It was the show where people would do anything to get on TV and win a grand total of $516.32.
		What Cagle is talking about is Barris' wacky claims in his 1984 autobiography that his game shows were actually a cover-up for his covert work as a CIA assassin.
		Clark worked with and befriended Chuck Barris way back in the days of "American Bandstand." The always-unpredictable Chuck would actually debunk the CIA rumors with Connie Chung back in 1984 on the "Today" show.
	extratv.warnerbros.com /dailynews/extra/01_02/01_01a.html (328 words)

	Salon.com People \| Chuck Barris
		Chuck Barris grew up in Philadelphia, where he was born in 1929...
		Here's the story according to Barris: He's the son of "a less than inspiring dentist." The family, which included a sister seven years younger than Chuck, was left with nothing when his father died of a stroke.
		Barris later revealed the secret behind these reactions: He'd ask prospective clients what their dream gift would be, then match couples who answered similarly on the same show.
	archive.salon.com /people/bc/2001/03/06/chuck_barris/print.html (4121 words)

	CNN.com - Chuck Barris' 'Dangerous Mind' - Dec. 30, 2002
		Chuck Barris created TV classics such as "The Dating Game" and "The Gong Show." And in his autobiography, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," he also claims he was a CIA agent.
		CHUCK BARRIS, AUTHOR, "CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND": It's the premise -- take a guy who has been crucified by the television critics for trying to entertain people, and meanwhile, [he receives] covert medals and citations from the president for killing enemies of the United States.
		BARRIS: "Newlywed," I even had a game called "How's Your Mother- in-Law." I would try anything where people could relate, and I figured that was the answer.
	www.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/30/barris.cnna/index.html (798 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For Barris to boldly claim that while accompanying game show winners to eastern Europe, he helped the CIA fight the Cold War — poisoning drinks and plugging communists with a silenced pistol — is beyond ludicrous.
		She and Barris carefully avoid marriage over the years, but she remains (more or less) faithful to him despite her frustrations concerning his fealty.
		Whether you believe that Chuck Barris, the mind behind “The Newlywed Game” and “The Gong Show,” actually murdered 33 people for his country is irrelevant (though if you do believe his story, I have a certain bridge to sell you).
	www.billingsnews.com /printStory?storyid=4008 (824 words)

	Amazon.com: Bad Grass Never Dies: More Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: Books: Chuck Barris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It begins with Barris postponing his plans to retire from the assassination business in order to track down a Mexican terrorist, who was behind the murders of two of Barris' colleagues.
		Gazillionaire Barris moves to the French Riveria while keeping his moonlighting job as CIA hit man. I admit I believed Barris' tale in the first outing "Dangerous Minds" could be legitimate, but I saw the light this time.
		Barris has a gift for suspense and adventure writing and this might be his most enjoyable and zippy read yet.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786713798?v=glance (1753 words)

	'Confessions' dissects TV creep Chuck Barris \| lawrence.com
		Barris revealed that he was recruited in 1963 by the CIA when he answered a "College graduate: Free to travel" ad.
		One strand of logic that seems to validate Barris' assertions is that the couples went to such "vacation hotbeds" as Helsinki and West Berlin.
		Rendering Barris is a tough chore for an actor, and Rockwell proves respectable in the part -- respectable but not exceptional.
	www.lawrence.com /pnredir/119540 (776 words)

	Box Office Prophets: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Review
		To Barris, television producing and his work in the CIA were the same job.
		She is the incarnation of Barris' demons - all that he is that is bad, and all that was that made him bad.
		So when Chuck tell us of a new game show idea of three old guys discussing whether or not they've accomplished their dreams, and the winner is the one who doesn't take a shotgun to his own head, it hits home.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /parker/confessions.asp (967 words)

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