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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Goodwin tensely confronts Enright with concrete proof that ''Twenty One'' was rigged, Enright tries to bribe Goodwin by offering him a place on a panel show. Goodwin genuinely seems to think it's funny beyond looking amazed that Enright would go that far.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Goodwin tensely confronts Enright with concrete proof that ''Twenty One'' was rigged, Enright tries to bribe Goodwin by offering him a place on a panel show. Goodwin genuinely seems to think it's funny beyond looking amazed that Enright would [[RefugeInAudacity go that far. far]].
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Herbert Stempel (Creator/JohnTurturro) is the nerdy, trivia-spouting Jew from Queens who has had a long run as ''Twenty-One''[='s=] most successful contestant — helped along for an unspecified but significant amount of time by being told the questions and answers in advance. The show's producers, Dan Enright ({{Creator/David Paymer}}) and Albert Freedman (Creator/HankAzaria), are told by the network, who have been told by the sponsor, that Stempel is no longer a favorite with the viewing public and will have to take a dive... just as Charles Van Doren (Creator/RalphFiennes), the handsome, impressive, telegenic son of one of the country's most prominent intellectual families, decides he'd like to take a crack at appearing on a quiz show.
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Herbert Stempel (Creator/JohnTurturro) is the nerdy, trivia-spouting Jew from Queens who has had a long run as ''Twenty-One''[='s=] most successful contestant — helped along for an unspecified but significant amount of time by being told the questions and answers in advance. The show's producers, Dan Enright ({{Creator/David Paymer}}) and Albert Freedman (Creator/HankAzaria), are told by the network, who have been told by the sponsor, that Stempel is no longer a favorite with the viewing public and will have to take a dive... just as Charles Van Doren (Creator/RalphFiennes), the handsome, impressive, telegenic son of one of the country's most prominent intellectual families, poet Mark Van Doren (Creator/PaulScofield), decides he'd like to take a crack at appearing on a quiz show.
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1994 American film directed by Creator/RobertRedford, BasedOnATrueStory about the scandal surrounding the rigging of the GameShow ''[[Series/TwentyOne Twenty-One]]'' in TheFifties.
Herbert Stempel (Creator/JohnTurturro) is the nerdy, trivia-spouting Jew from Queens who has had a long run as ''Twenty-One''[='s=] most successful contestant — helped along for an unspecified but significant amount of time by being told the questions and answers in advance. The show's producers, Dan Enright ({{Creator/David Paymer}}) and Albert Freedman ([[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Hank Azaria]]), are told by the network, who have been told by the sponsor, that Stempel is no longer a favorite with the viewing public and will have to take a dive... just as Charles Van Doren (Creator/RalphFiennes), the handsome, impressive, telegenic son of one of the country's most prominent intellectual families, decides he'd like to take a crack at appearing on a quiz show.
Herbert Stempel (Creator/JohnTurturro) is the nerdy, trivia-spouting Jew from Queens who has had a long run as ''Twenty-One''[='s=] most successful contestant — helped along for an unspecified but significant amount of time by being told the questions and answers in advance. The show's producers, Dan Enright ({{Creator/David Paymer}}) and Albert Freedman ([[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Hank Azaria]]), are told by the network, who have been told by the sponsor, that Stempel is no longer a favorite with the viewing public and will have to take a dive... just as Charles Van Doren (Creator/RalphFiennes), the handsome, impressive, telegenic son of one of the country's most prominent intellectual families, decides he'd like to take a crack at appearing on a quiz show.
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''Quiz Show'' is a 1994 American film directed by Creator/RobertRedford, BasedOnATrueStory about the scandal surrounding the rigging of the GameShow ''[[Series/TwentyOne Twenty-One]]'' in TheFifties.
Herbert Stempel (Creator/JohnTurturro) is the nerdy, trivia-spouting Jew from Queens who has had a long run as ''Twenty-One''[='s=] most successful contestant — helped along for an unspecified but significant amount of time by being told the questions and answers in advance. The show's producers, Dan Enright ({{Creator/David Paymer}}) and Albert Freedman([[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Hank Azaria]]), (Creator/HankAzaria), are told by the network, who have been told by the sponsor, that Stempel is no longer a favorite with the viewing public and will have to take a dive... just as Charles Van Doren (Creator/RalphFiennes), the handsome, impressive, telegenic son of one of the country's most prominent intellectual families, decides he'd like to take a crack at appearing on a quiz show.
Herbert Stempel (Creator/JohnTurturro) is the nerdy, trivia-spouting Jew from Queens who has had a long run as ''Twenty-One''[='s=] most successful contestant — helped along for an unspecified but significant amount of time by being told the questions and answers in advance. The show's producers, Dan Enright ({{Creator/David Paymer}}) and Albert Freedman
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* JerkassHasAPoint: As slimy and manipulative as Enright and Freeman get, they are technically correct when they say during the Congressional hearing that they didn't do anything ''legally'' wrong.
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* KeepingSecretsSucks: [[DrinkingGame Take a drink]] every time Ralph Fiennes [[EyeTake stresses out]].
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* KeepingSecretsSucks: [[DrinkingGame Take a drink]] every time Ralph Fiennes [[EyeTake stresses out]]. He seems relieved when he finally comes clean at the end, despite the public embarrassment to himself and his family, and the negative consequences to his career.
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* AllForNothing: Goodwin's investigation. He seems to realize at the end of the film that all he's done is have Van Doren and Stempel raked over the coals, while his efforts to "get television" end in failure after Enright and Freedman take the fall for NBC and Geritol. Made worse by the fact that [[KarmaHoudini they bounce back anyway]].
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* AllForNothing: Goodwin's investigation. He seems to realize at the end of the film that all he's done is have Van Doren and Stempel raked over the coals, while his efforts to "get television" end in failure after Enright and Freedman take the fall for NBC and Geritol. Made worse by the fact that [[KarmaHoudini they bounce back anyway]]. On the other hand, the fiasco did lead to laws being passed preventing blatant rigging on game shows in the future.
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* TheAce: Precisely why Charles was scouted for ''Twenty One.'' He's charming, handsome, charismatic, educated and comes from a wealthy and influential family.
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* TheAce: Precisely why Charles was scouted for ''Twenty One.'' He's charming, handsome, charismatic, educated and comes from a wealthy and influential [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASP]] family.
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'''Goodwin:''' Well, you have to put it in context. See the thing of it is, the affair was over something like eight years. So I remember asking him, you know, "Why'd you tell her? You got away with it." And I'll never forget what he said: it was the getting away with it part he couldn't live with.
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'''Goodwin:''' Well, you have to put it in context. See the thing of it is, the affair was over something like eight years. So I remember asking him, you know, "Why'd you tell her? You got away with it." And I'll never forget what he said: it "It was the getting away with it part he (he) couldn't live with.
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