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skirts. They always had long johns for caveman costumes. We had harem
costumes for the men too.”
“What people don’t understand,” says Milt, “is that it wasn’t a game
show. It was an
audience participation
show. A ‘game’ show is
Jeopardy!
or
something like that.
Truth Or Consequences
was based on an old parlor game
that Ralph Edwards played.
“If you can’t answer the question, you had to do a stunt.
“The question,” Milt explains, “would be some ridiculous unanswerable
question, so…”
“And if you did answer it,” Arlene adds, “Bob would say, ‘Okay, now part
Conversations
“Cats are notorious snobs and take themselves entirely too seriously,” says Milt,
which is why, of course, he and the Sherman Brothers (Richard M. and Robert
B.) got together to produce DAWGS! The Musical on the heels of the success
of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats.” It opened at the Variety Arts Theatre in Los
Angeles in 1984, featuring a large number of dog costumes created by Arlene
and made from human hair wigs that required daily shampooing.
The long-running Truth or Consequences spawned at least three highly successful TV
shows: “Name That Tune,” “Candid Camera,” and “This Is Your Life”
wife, Arlene)? Do whatever she says.’”
“It was always funnier to dress men up,” Arlene interjects. “So, I’d say,
‘Come in here and take all your clothes off.’ They’d strip down and get bare
naked and we’d put some shorts on them and then put them in tutus and
leotards and out they went.
“I had one gentleman hand me a gun and his badge. He said ‘Put these
in a safe place.’ I had another gentleman, who was a coach, ask, ‘Nobody’s
going to see me in this will they?’ ‘No, of course not,’ I’d tell him. The whole
team was out there and here he is in a tutu. We were on national television.
“We used to dress the men up like Scarlett O’Hara, in big hats and hoop
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