{"id":8310,"date":"2017-03-22T14:15:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2017-03-23T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T21:00:45","slug":"chuck-barris-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/22\/chuck-barris-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Barris Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/22\/us\/chuck-barris-tv-game-show-host-dies-obit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from CNN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Chuck Barris, TV game show creator and host, dies at 87<\/h1>\n<p>By Madison Park<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EkcieWccaAA?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(CNN)Chuck Barris, best known as host of the TV series &#8220;The Gong Show&#8221; and creator of &#8220;The Dating Game&#8221; and &#8220;The Newlywed Game,&#8221; died Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As host of &#8220;The Gong Show,&#8221; Barris introduced amateur performers to three celebrity judges, who could put a stop to terrible performances by striking the gong. Much like on &#8220;American Idol,&#8221; awful performances became ratings smash hits. The TV show aired from 1976 to 1980.<\/p>\n<p>While his shows were wildly popular, they were not a hit with critics. Barris was panned as the King of Schlock, Baron of Bad Taste and Ayatollah of Trasherola.<br \/>\nApart from game shows, Barris found success as a writer. He penned six best-selling books and a 1962 pop song, &#8220;Palisades Park,&#8221; which became a No. 3 hit in the US for Freddy Cannon.<\/p>\n<p>Barris later wrote in his book &#8220;Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,&#8221; that he worked as a CIA assassin while working in TV &#8212; a claim denied by the agency. The book became a 2002 movie, directed by George Clooney. Sam Rockwell starred as Barris, and the cast included Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore and Clooney.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/22\/us\/chuck-barris-tv-game-show-host-dies-obit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full obit at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN Chuck Barris, TV game show creator and host, dies at 87 By Madison Park (CNN)Chuck Barris, best known as host of the TV series &#8220;The Gong Show&#8221; and creator of &#8220;The Dating Game&#8221; and &#8220;The Newlywed Game,&#8221; died Tuesday. As host of &#8220;The Gong Show,&#8221; Barris introduced amateur performers to three celebrity judges, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}