![]() ![]() ![]() I was told very specifically to pat my eyebrow, don’t wipe my forehead.’ So Herb Stempel was given acting lessons. You’ll notice here I’m patting my brow to get rid of the sweat. Dan Enright wanted to make sure I did that, because there was an extreme close-up and that was very expressive. ![]() He said, ‘Now at this point, I’m going to bite my bottom lip. He tried blackmailing Dan Enright at one point, but Enright recorded him demanding $50,000 or else he was going to blow the whistle to the press.”Īdam further elaborates, explaining, “When Stempel came in for his hearing, they showed kinescopes of his appearances on Twenty-One, and he was going through them point by point, showing off the acting lessons that he got from Dan Enright. So he began trying to get the attention of the press to let them know what was going on. The next thing that happened was that, and the movie, again, touches on this, he got swindled out of his winnings by some really shady investment deals. He took that quote in TV Guide very personally. “When Charles Van Doren made the cover of TV Guide,” he says, “in an adjoining article Jack Barry said, ‘This is the kind of contestant that we really want, because he’s not a freak with a sponge memory.’ Jack didn’t name a name, but Herb Stempel read that article and was convinced that that was a shot at him. The producers, according to Adam, probably felt that Stempel would fade into the background, but that didn’t happen - not helped by the fact that the former contestant felt he was being taunted. ![]()
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