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https://www.yahoo.com/music/chuck-barris-wacky-host-creator-gong-show-dies-050605615.html
Chuck Barris, the goofball host of The Gong Show who also was the manic mastermind behind two other spontaneous game-show classics, The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, has died. He was 87.
Barris, who in his book, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Biography, claimed to have been an assassin for the CIA - his implausible story became a fantastical 2002 movie directed by first-timer George Clooney and written by Charlie Kaufman - died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Palisades, N.Y., his family announced through publicist Paul Shefrin.
Chuck Barris, the goofball host of The Gong Show who also was the manic mastermind behind two other spontaneous game-show classics, The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, has died. He was 87.
Barris, who in his book, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Biography, claimed to have been an assassin for the CIA - his implausible story became a fantastical 2002 movie directed by first-timer George Clooney and written by Charlie Kaufman - died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Palisades, N.Y., his family announced through publicist Paul Shefrin.
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