Halls daughter, actress Joanna Gleason,confirmed the newsto theNew York Times.
(In 2009, Wayne Brady took over as emcee of a new version ofLets Make a Deal.)
By about the second week or so, a woman showed up with a sign.
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The next week, everybody had a sign.
Then somebody else had a funny hat, then came costumes.
I want this and I want that and I want this.
I want it all.
InLets Make a Deal, you could not do that.
You had to say, Would you give up your color TV for the unknown behind the curtain?
Now you have to stop and think.
Should I risk my brand new color TV?
What would motivate me to do that?
Maybe I already have a color TV.
Its time for me to go for whats behind the door.
Or it could be, I know theres something great behind the door.
Im willing to gamble.
So it becomes gambling and risk.
Its not greed because you dont keep the color TV.
You have to give it up.
Thats the big difference.
No one knew what they were playing for.
Halls wife, Marilyn, also an Emmy winner, died in June this year.
