Chuck Barris's Books
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Who Killed Art Deco?Chuck Barris's hilarious whodunit about a Jewish PI from Kentucky who teams with the NYPD to solve a society murder.Read More
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The Big QuestionFrom the revolutionary mind of television's legendary mad genius, a story of money, sex, greed, revenge, murder -- and reality TV The year is 2012, and...Read More
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Authors on the Web
Huffington Post, February 12, 2013
...even more (and greater) poseur writers, some of them appearing as contestants on a brimstone tinged version of Chuck Barris’s The Dating Game. The audition flyer read in part, “PS: if you feel like you could be Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath or Ernest...
Huffington Post, January 15, 2013
...Dogs of Babel, delivered Lost and Found, a novel about contestants on an Amazing Race-like show. In 2007, Chuck Barris, yes, the Gong Show host, published The Big Question, a wild book in which contestants must answer a final question correctly (and win...
Fwweekly, December 11, 2012
...George Clooney has directed, this raucous, garish, overtly stagey spy thriller is still my favorite. Sam Rockwell portrays Chuck Barris, the 1970s game show host and producer who claimed to be a CIA assassin. Clooney plays Barris’ delusions of grandeur...
Helium, May 4, 2013
...America needs Chuck Barris and his Gong Show. Now more than ever. In the 1960's, Chuck Barris was one of two visionary television producers who helped to revitalize the nearly moribund institution...
The 59-year-old contortionist plans to re-create "The Gong Show" apperance at Heartside's got Talent
Advance Newspapers, May 1, 2013
...He told me I should go out to Hollywood and try for it,” she said. LeFevre did, meeting Chuck Barris and eventually appearing on the show not once but twice. “They asked me to come back and introduce Barris and I knew that what they wanted was the...
The 59-year-old contortionist plans to re-create "The Gong Show" apperance at Heartside's got Talent
On the Town, May 1, 2013
...He told me I should go out to Hollywood and try for it,” she said. LeFevre did, meeting Chuck Barris and eventually appearing on the show not once but twice. “They asked me to come back and introduce Barris and I knew that what they wanted was the...
Broadway World, April 20, 2013
...America knew it. THE GONG SHOW experience was AUDIENCE-OBSESSED and manically driven by an elf-sized nuclear reactor called CHUCK BARRIS who reveled in the presentation of the famous $516.32 winner's check endorsed by the network's brass back at the Head...
High-Def Digest, April 18, 2013
...the same ease it travels between his delusional state of mind. The man in question is TV producer Chuck Barris, who found success in the 1960s and 70s with a string of popular game shows which are still remembered today. Based on Barris' own...
South Carolina State, April 14, 2013
...day the Astros were above .500. Talking the talk • Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times, invoking Chuck Barris after the Rays installed a ballpark gong: “The possibilities would seem endless. Play ball? Home runs? Victories? Bad anthem...
CNN, April 12, 2013
...find her listed under “tennis player.” Which is a bit like finding Joan of Arc under “shepherdess” or Chuck Barris under “game show host.” Oh, make no mistake: Marble was a hell of a tennis player, one of the most accomplished ever. A girl...
