Tuesday tidbits

In a truly bitter family feud, Steve Harvey's ex-wife Mary Harvey has taken to YouTube to slam the Feud host. She says Harvey cheated on her, ruined her financially, turned her family against her, and kicked her dog. Okay, I made up the part about the dog. Harvey's lawyer was not amused and piled into the ex-Mrs. with all sorts of legal threats. Maybe the voluble game show host should reread one of his own relationship-guru books. Harvey and his current Mrs. have now struck back.

The Google news cache always offers local media stories about game show contestants. But this one about Ocala, Florida resident and Millionaire contestant Prescilla Geissal was notable for the lady's age: sixty-nine. After Chad Mosher's justified complaints against age discrimination by game shows, the story comes as a nice change. One quibble: the article constantly refers to the 69-year-old lady by her bare last name, an irritating remnant of screechy feminism. Would it be so politically impossible to use "Mrs." or even "Ms."? By the way, Mrs. Geissal won a thousand bucks.

ABC has picked up You Deserve It, the help-thy-neighbor quizzer I blogged about a while ago. The premise still seems a little odd. I like to root for contestants who are playing for themselves, not for some more or less significant other. If those other folks deserve it so much, bring them on as contestants.

Jack LaLanne, who completed 761,239,833 push-ups in his life, has died at the ripe old age of 96. I still remember his exercise shows from the 1950s, when my childhood self would do jumping jacks in front of his flickering image on a black-and-white teevee. Speaking of the fifties, Jack once appeared on Groucho's ancient You Bet Your Life, as duly recorded on YouTube. He even said the secret word.