Saturday, November 02, 2002

The host of Hollywood Squares 2020 -- Tiffany!
I procrastinated way too long so I missed out on a chance at an appointment to try out for Pyramid, which was being held at a nearby mall. So I tried doing things the hard way -- getting your name drawn and going on stage to play a small mock game with other people in the audience (set up just outside of Sears). Get six of six, you win an audition spot. Oddly enough, the last of the tapings is this Monday, so the top person from the audition would be flown out to L.A. today, so maybe it was good that I didn't get anywhere close to the stage.

The local TV and radio celebs playing the game were actually decent at it, which was fun to watch. However, the weird thing about this tryout, compared to other game show tryouts is that there were lots of people wanting to see Donny Osmond, and care little about the game. Thus, after he did his appearance, most of the crowd left (and much of this crowd appeared to have been there long before the 10 a.m. start time). And given he was a teen idol however long ago, it's scary to think some of these folks still holding on after all these years. Just strange.

Maybe next time I'll know to register really early for a tryout.

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