STROKES - GAME-SHOW HOST JACK NARZ DEAD AT 85

GAME-SHOW HOST JACK NARZ DEAD AT 85

Jack Narz, who at one time or another hosted eight different network game shows, died Wednesday in Los Angeles at age 85 from complications of two strokes. His brother Jim, himself a game-show host who went under the name Tom Kennedy, told the Associated Press that Jack "had a Dean Martin approach. ... He was smooth, on top, made it look effortless, and yet he was a pro. He came out so casually ... like 'I'm doing this off the top of my head.'" Among the shows that Narz hosted were Dotto (an early victim of the quiz-show scandals of the 1950s) , I'll Bet, Now You See It , and Concentration. "

17/10/2008