Quiz Show (1994) · 19 quotes
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.
Herb Stempel
Don't do this to me, it's humiliating.
Dan Enright
For seventy grand, Herb, you can afford to be humiliated.
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?
