sueb wrote:
> Hackmatack > wrote:
>
>> I did wonder whether the female English voice-overs (squeals, swoons,
>> giggles, Marilyn-Monroe-like come-hither whispers) wasn't a complete
>> misrepresentation of what was actually going on. But you have to admit that
>> no female judge on that show, as opposed to the male judges, was anything
>> but ornamental in intention.
>
> You must not have watched very many episodes. There's a female judge
> named Kishi Asako who has been referred to as the East German judge.
> She's a middle aged woman, definitely not a bimbo, and not there for
> girly ornamentation.

Wasn't Kishi Asako the one listed as "Fortune Teller"? One of my great
grandmothers was a fortune teller. The names my mother give to fortune
tellers are not as complimentary as bimbo. But having a fortune teller
as an expert judge definitely increases the Hollywood Squares comical
aspect of the show. Some of the other judges were former parliament
members who had failed to get reelected after some number of years.