Quiz Show (1994) · 19 quotes
I remember five-six years ago my uncle Harold told my aunt about this affair he had. It was a sort of mildly upsetting event in my family... The affair was over, something like eight years. So I remember asking him, "Why did you tell her? You got away with it." And I'll never forget what he said. It was the getting away with it part that he couldn't live with.
Dick Goodwin
He told me this whole story about when a Jew is on the show, he always loses to a Gentile, and then the Gentile wins more money. I mean, who could dream up a scheme like that? [laughs]
Dan Enright
A symptom of his Van Doren fixation!
Dick Goodwin
The thing of it is, I looked it up: it's true.
Dick Goodwin
I have Enright cold — and sir, that means I have you.
Really?
Dick Goodwin
Really.
Then why are you the one that's sweating?
Dick Goodwin
Don't treat me like I'm a member of your goddamn fan club. Are you telling me everybody got the answers but you?
Charles Van Doren
You're so persistent, Dick. You know, I really envy you that.
Dick Goodwin
Was it just the money, Charlie?
Charles Van Doren
You'll forgive me, but anyone who thinks money is ever just money couldn't have much of it.
Dick Goodwin
Charlie, you want to insult me, fine; but you can't envy me at the same time.
Charles Van Doren
Jesus, Dick, if someone offered you all this money to be on some rigged quiz show, instant fame, the works, would you do it?
Dick Goodwin
No. 'Course not.
Charles Van Doren
No? Throw the whole thing in, the cover of Time, Dave Garroway, $50,000 a year to read poetry on television — would you do it?
Dick Goodwin
No.
Charles Van Doren
And I would?
Dick Goodwin
Dan, I have it on the kinescope, it's clear as day. The man literally did a double-take.
Dan Enright
He did a double-take? And who told you this? Is this Herb again? Or is this the Greenwich Village Beatnik?
Dick Goodwin
That's interesting, why is he a beatnik? Because he's not Charlie Van Doren?
Dan Enright
Yeah, you're damn right he's not Charlie Van Doren. You know, you got these crackpots coming out of the woodwork, you're snooping around asking questions. You don't have a shred of concrete evidence.
Dick Goodwin
Dan, let me tell you something. In this envelope are all the questions that James Snodgrass was asked on Twenty One. The odd thing about this envelope is that he appeared on the show January 13th, if you recall. Yet, he somehow mailed this to himself on January 11th via registered mail. I'd say that's pretty damn concrete, wouldn't you?
