#herb stempel

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Today I learned that the two most famous figures in the 1950s television quiz show scandals passed away recently: Charles Van Doren in 2019 and his rival Herb Stempel in 2020. The producers fed both contestants answers ahead of time and arranged for Stempel to lose so Van Doren could become the new champion.

The excellent 1994 movie Quiz Show stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Van Doren, John Turturro as Herb Stempel, and Rob Morrow as Congressional lawyer Richard Goodwin.

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Last night, Barbara, Aari and I went to see "Sabbath's Theater," the adaptation of Philip Roth's oft-cited favorite of his novels. With the exception of the film version of "Goodbye Columbus," adapting Roth's work has been an exercise in folly. Other than the New Yorker (whose staff writer Ariel Levy had adapted the book with star John Turturro), "Sabbath's Theater" had been lightly, but roundly panned. Everyone else, it turns out, was wrong. All three actors were relaxed and intense, especially Turturro, who always delivers, even when he lapses into Herb Stempel from "Quiz Show," which I can't get enough of. The greatest compliment I can give this production is that if Roth had seen it, he would have whole-heartedly approved. And I say this having never met the man, but stolen a portrait of him from an exhibit at St. Peter's Church.

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Weingut Wagner-Stempel Siefersheim Heerkretz GG Rheinhessen 2022

Rhyolite. One of the highest sites in Rheinhessen. The name comes from "scratching" and refers to the difficult workability in the vineyard. WOW! Spectacular nose. Love this. Pungent and exotic. Black cherries, cassis, green wild herbs, desiccated flowers. Wonderful salty and exotic palate with terrific concentration of fruit and beautiful wood integration. Wine of the tasting so far. *****

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Saisonvorschau: Rekordmeister Stella Rossa tipp3

Saisonziel

Der frischgebackene Futsal-Cupsieger Stella Rossa tipp3 hat sich für die neue Saison wieder viel vorgenommen. Nach dem Vizemeistertitel 2020/21 hat die Mannschaft Lunte gerochen. Das nicht ganz geheime Ziel lautet Meistertitel 2021/22. Im ÖFB-Futsal-Cup im Juni zeigte das Team besonders im Finale auf, der mit österreichischen Nationalspielern gespickte Kader profitierte von den Lehrgängen des ÖFB.

Der Kader

Aleks Ristovski ist es über die Jahre gelungen, eine junge und hungrige Mannschaft aufzubauen. Besonders die Eigengewächse aus der berühmten Stella-Jugend-Schule wie Manuel Gager, Arthur Vozenilek oder Alec Flögel nehmen inzwischen Schlüsselrollen in der Starting-Five ein. Dazu finden sich mit Torschützenkönig Boris Vukovic, Kapitän David Rajkovic oder Routinier Osman Ali weitere Spitzenkräfte im Team, die das berühmte Zünglein an der Waage darstellen könnten. Freuen darf man sich zudem auf Nenad Vasiljevic, der letzte Saison einen großen Schritt nach vorne gemacht hat.

Transferzeit

Um die gesetzten Ziele zu erreichen hat Aleks Ristovski den Kader sinnvoll verstärkt. Mit Sinan Bicer (Fortuna Wiener Neustadt) und Karim Sallam (PFC Liberta Legion) konnte er zwei weitere Spieler aus dem erweiterten Nationalteamkader in die Hollgasse locken. Dazu investierte das Stella-Mastermind in nicht weniger als fünf neue Torhüter. Wer aus dem Quintett Florian Grois (AC Vienna 2020), Aleksandar Tomic (PFC Liberta Legion), Kristijan Basic (PFC Liberta Legion), Sinisa Kulic (Fortuna Wiener Neustadt) und Ertan Uzun (Neuanmeldung) die besten Karten hat, Teamyoungster Matthias Sadilek langfristig zu fordern und den Abgang von Spitzenkeeper Dalibor Kalajdzic vergessen zu machen, wird sich zeigen. Spannend wird auch sein, ob Spieler wie Neuanmeldung Kürsat Güclü oder Rückkehrer Ilja Simic der Mannschaft ihren Stempel aufdrücken können.

Fazit

Alles andere als eine Spitzenplatzierung wäre eine herbe Enttäuschung für Stella Rossa. In der Gruppe A sollten St. Pölten und Futsal Club Komusina keinen Stolperstein für die Wiener darstellen. In weiterer Folge könnte die Ausgeglichenheit im Kader ausschlaggebend sein, um den ganz großen Coup zu landen. Zeigen die Youngster Nerven, kann es aber auch schnell in die andere Richtung gehen, und man beendet die Saison trotz ansprechender Leistungen „nur“ auf Rang 4. Read the full article

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Carlos Santana to Give 2020 Commencement Address at Herb Alpert School of Music

Carlos Santana to Give 2020 Commencement Address at Herb Alpert School of Music

The 2020 commencement ceremony at the Herb Alpert School of Music at UCLA will have a very special guest speaker on June 19. On Tuesday (June 9) the school announced that its virtual celebration will feature Grammy-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Carlos Santana.

In a statement about the event, the school’s inaugural dean, Eileen L. Stempel, said that Santana’s “inclusive global sound and…

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Herb Stempel, the federal whistleblower who exposed how the NBC game show “Twenty-One” was manipulated for ratings, died last month at the age of 93. His death was confirmed this weekend by Stempel’s stepdaughter to The New York Times.Stempel’s story was told in the Robert Redford film “Quiz Show,” which

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Herb Stempel, Quiz Show Whistle-Blower, Is Dead at 93 In the isolation booth, Herb Stempel bit his lip to show tension. He dabbed sweat from his brow and sighed into the microphone.

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"Herb Stempel, Quiz Show Whistle-Blower, Is Dead at 93" by BY ROBERT D. MCFADDEN via NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/36QfGhw

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Über den Januar verteilt habe ich immer wieder eine Geschichte aus den Tales of the Peculiar gelesen. Es handelt sich hierbei um Märchen aus der Welt von Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. Mein Erlebnis mit dem Roman war nicht sehr erquickend (ich fand die Verfilmung tatsächlich wesentlich unterhaltsamer), aber da ich auf abstruse Märchen stehe und diese Sammlung auch ganz gut für sich allein funktioniert, wollte ich sie unbedingt lesen. Die Rechnung ging auf. Ransom Riggs Erzählungen gefallen mir wesentlich besser als seine vorangegangene Trilogie. Es geht herrlich düster zu, die Ideen für den verschiedenen Talente der Peculiars sind originell und der Stil baut auf schönster Märchenmanier auf ohne dass es wie schon mal dagewesen wirkt. Dazu kommt die hochwertige Gestaltung. Die goldene Sonderfarbe findet sich innen wieder, jede Seite ist geschmückt mit kleinen Ornamenten, es gibt ein Lesebändchen, einen Ex Libris “Stempel” und jede der 10 Geschichten hat eine eigene Illustration von Andrew Davidson. Wem mehr an der Original Miss Peregrine Welt liegt, wird sich sicher über die Einleitung und Fußnoten von Millard Nullings freuen. Meine Lieblingsgeschichten sind The Splendid Cannibals (sind die Kannibalen hier wirklich die Bösen?) und Cocobola (es geht um Inseln auf sehr besondere Art und Weise, mehr will ich nicht verraten).

Jetzt aber noch zum Tee! Cupper Teas ist für die meisten sicher keine Neuentdeckung mehr, denn an den hübschen Verpackungen kann man nicht vorbeigehen ohne einen zweiten Blick auf sie zu werfen. Ich liebe das Design, aber leider sprechen mich die meisten ihrer Sorten nicht an. Zum Glück hat Liesa mir zu Weihnachten zusammen mit den Tales of the Peculiar die Variante “Limette und Ingwer Grüner Tee” geschenkt. Hier hat mich nur der Ingwer abgeschreckt, die Mischung aus grünem Tee und Limette finde ich fabelhaft. Trinken kann man den Tee trotzdem ganz gut. Hier und da kommt der Ingwer zwar durch, aber er passt gut in die Mischung und meine Packung wird garantiert leer. Als nächstes habe ich “Hagebuttentee mit Hibiskus” probiert. Bei Hagebutte muss ich immer zuerst an Oma- und Kindergartentee denken und zwar nicht auf die gute Art. Der Hibiskus scheint hier alles rauszureißen. Ich finde den Tee echt lecker, eine gute Mischung aus Kräuter- und Früchtetee, nicht zu süß, aber auch nicht so herb wie ein schwarzer oder grüner Tee. Jetzt muss ich den nur noch im Laden finden. dm scheint genau diese Sorte nämlich nicht zu führen. Was ich neben ihrem biofairtradetrallala an den Cupper Teas mag, ist übrigens, dass sie ungebleichte Teebeutel benutzen. Die Teebeutel sind also nicht rein weiß, aber wer braucht das schon bei Tee? Da trinke ich doch lieber etwas, das weniger Chemie enthält und dafür einen leichten Gelbstich hat. Übrigens hat Cupper Tea mich zu meinem Bedauern weder gesponsert noch mit Freitee versorgt. Ich finde die wirklich gut.

Welchen Cupper Tea trinkt ihr am liebsten? Habt ihr auch schon mal mehr Interesse an einem “Zusatzbuch” gehabt als an der Originalgeschichte?

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Herb Stempel, contestant who ‘took a dive’ in a 1950s US television quiz show scandal – obituary

Herb Stempel, contestant who ‘took a dive’ in a 1950s US television quiz show scandal – obituary

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He applied to go on Twenty-One, sitting a 3½ hour exam in which he claimed to have scored the highest ever result, 251 of 363 questions correct. But when Dick Enright, who co-produced the show with its presenter Jack Barry, visited his house to offer him a spot, he asked if Stempel would like to make $25,000.

Though he knew what was implied, Stempel agreed. He was groomed to be “the…

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Herb Stempel Death | Dead - Cause Of Death | Herb Stempel Obituary- Passed Away

Herb Stempel Death | Dead – Cause Of Death | Herb Stempel Obituary- Passed Away

Herb Stempel Death | Passed Away | Obituary

Herb Stempel Death – Dead : A great lost was made known to InsideEko . As friend and families of the deceased are mourning the passing of their loved and cherished Herb Stempel.

Having heard about this great loss, the family of this individual are passing through pains,mourning the unexpected passing of their beloved.

This departure was confirmed…

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(NEW YORK) — Herbert Stempel, a fall guy and whistleblower of early television whose confession to deliberately losing on a 1950s quiz show helped drive a national scandal and join his name in history to winning contestant Charles Van Doren, has died age 93.

Stempel’s former wife, Ethel Stempel, told The Associated Press on Sunday that he died at a New York nursing home on April 7. She cited no specific cause of death.

Stempel’s long life was changed and defined by a TV face-off late in 1956, when he and Van Doren smoothly executed a fraudulent display of knowledge, gaps in knowledge and sportsmanship on “Twenty-One,” part of a wave of programs that offered big prizes for trivia experts. Confessions by Stempel and others badly tainted the young medium, helped lead to Congress’ banning what had been technically legal — rigging game shows — and to the cancellation of “Twenty-One” among others.

Interest was revived by the 1994 movie “Quiz Show,” directed by Robert Redford and starring John Turturro as Stempel and Ralph Fiennes as Van Doren, who died last year.

The undoing of “Twenty-One” was set off by declining ratings, and a producer’s refusal to uphold a dirty bargain.

Stempel, born in New York City and the son of Jewish immigrants, would boast of a “retentive memory” that had made him a quiz show star since childhood and a natural for “Twenty-One.” Hosted by Jack Barry, the program placed two contestants in isolation booths on opposite sides of the stage and challenged them on everything from modern sports to Civil War history. Stempel, identified by Barry as a 29-year-old G.I. Bill college student from Queens, had prevailed for six straight weeks and accumulated $69,500. But audiences were apparently bored and advertisers worried. Producer Dan Enright’s solution was to have Stempel lose to a more charismatic opponent, Van Doren, scion of a prominent scholarly family and himself a rising star at Columbia University. Stempel later said he agreed when Enright promised to make him a question consultant for “Twenty-One,” get him an appearance on “The Steve Allen Show” and allow him to compete on a future quiz program.

Stempel and Van Doren were an obvious contrast: The fair-haired and handsome Van Doren, and the relatively plain Stempel, a stocky, dark-haired man with glasses and a flat, nasally accent. Each duly played their parts: looking down, blinking nervously, wiping their foreheads and pretending to think out loud as they responded to such challenges as “Name the three heavyweight champions immediately preceding Joe Louis” and “Name the second, third, fourth, and fifth wives of Henry VIII and describes their fates.”

Stempel retained a wry sense of humor, responding “They all died” when asked about Henry VIII’s wives. But one wrong answer was personally painful: Which movie received the Oscar for best picture in 1955? As Stempel would explain, he knew the winner was “Marty,” the low-key drama starring Ernest Borgnine. He had seen it three times and related to its story of a lonely butcher in New York City. But he was told to guess “On the Waterfront,” the Oscar winner of 1954, and a film, ironically, about a boxer who throws a fight.

With tens of millions looking on, Stempel muttered “I don’t remember” three times, shook his head and weakly guessed, “On the Waterfront?” Upon Van Doren’s eventual victory, the contestants smiled and shook hands at center stage. Stempel, who still had nearly $50,000 in winnings, thanked Barry and the show’s staff for their “kindness” and “courtesy.” Barry in turn praised Stempel’s “courage” and “fighting spirit.”

Van Doren would continue winning for months, and was celebrated in a Time magazine cover story as “TV’s own health-restoring antidote to (Elvis the Pelvis) Presley.” Stempel, meanwhile, found himself shut out entirely. He would acknowledge his decision to speak out wasn’t a matter of conscience, but revenge. When he tried to get back in touch with Enright, he realized that the producer no longer was interested.

“He just completely forgot I ever existed,” Stempel later told the Archive of American Television. “He had a picture of Charles Van Doren in his office when I walked in there and all he could do was praise Charles Van Doren, tell me what a great contestant is.”

Stempel’s public declarations were initially dismissed, but as contestants on other shows made similar statements, authorities began to take action. A grand jury was convened in New York in 1958 and Congressional hearings began the following year, with Stempel and Van Doren both testifying and acknowledging their complicity. Van Doren, who had no further comment on the scandal until a 2009 essay in The New Yorker, was among those given suspended sentences for lying to the grand jury. Stempel would endure being “treated like a pariah” by his relatives and losing much of his prize money in an investment scam.

For years, he lived quietly in Queens with his second wife, Ethel (his first wife, Toby, died in 1980), working as an office manager, public school teacher and on the litigation support unit of the New York City Department of Transportation. He reemerged as a public figure in the 1990s, when “Twenty-One” was featured in a Julian Krainin documentary and in Redford’s movie, for which Stempel served as a consultant. He would say “Quiz Show” distorted his life and personality.

“I was a little miffed at the portrayal. I was showed to be a nerd, a square and a hyper little guy,” he told the Television Academy archive, remembering a humorous encounter with Turturro at a screening. “John walked over to me and he said to me, ‘If you punch me in the nose I would understand why. … And I didn’t want any trouble. I realized he played me over the top and so forth. He’s an actor. He’s told by the director, Redford, to play me in a certain way, and that’s how he played it. And I said, ‘No, John, everything’s cool.’

“And my wife, Ethel, is a very feisty woman, and she said, ‘Step aside, Herb, I want to take a crack at him.’”

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https://us.blastingnews.com/showbiz-tv/2020/06/quiz-show-whistleblower-herb-stempel-has-died-003148805.html

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Herb Stempel, Quiz Show Whistle-Blower, Is Dead at 93

After being instructed to give a wrong answer and lose to his golden-boy opponent, he played a key role in exposing a major television scandal.