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From the Archives: Chuck Barris: The man with the dangerous mind returns

Chuck Barris, creator of shows like “The Newlywed Game” and popular host of “The Gong Show,” has died. He was 87. As the 2002 biographical film “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” was set to debut, The Times’ Roy Rivenburg sat down with Barris to talk.

After two decades of self-imposed exile in southern France, the curly-haired creature who brought us “The Gong Show,” “The Newlywed Game” and other TV schlock is back.

Chuck Barris sinks into a stuffed chair in his Beverly Hills hotel room and marvels at the turn of events. “Two years ago, I was sitting in Columbia-Presbyterian hospital in New York with lung cancer,” he says. His second marriage was over, he had just buried his mother and his own life seemed to be slipping away.

Today, the 73-year-old game-show mogul is remarried (to a 43- year-old ex-model), embarking on a singing career, writing his fourth book and basking in the publicity surrounding “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” the film based on his bizarre memoir about being a CIA assassin.

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Charles Hirsch Barris was born on June 3, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Barris attended Drexel University where he was a columnist at the student newspaper. After graduating in 1953, Barris held various jobs including book salesman and fight promoter. Barris then moved to New York. He married Lyn Levy, daughter of a CBS founder. Barris found a job as a page at NBC, and soon entered the management trainee program. He was laid off in an efficiency cutback.

After a year, unable to land a job, an ABC executive asked him if he wanted a temporary engagement: Barris was to take the train to Philadelphia every day, sit on the set of American Bandstand and keep an eye on Dick Clark, who was caught up in the payola scandal. He had a financial stake in publishing companies, record labels and even pressing plants whose records he promoted heavily on American Bandstand. While on the set, he wrote a song called "Palisades Park." In 1962, Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon recorded the song and it became a big hit. ABC did not want another payola investigation and forbade Barris from writing

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Chuck Barris

BARRIS, CHUCK (Charles; 1929– ) U.S. television producer. Barris is known for his role as the producer of popular TV game shows, including some of the earliest forms of "reality television." Barris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended the Drexel Institute of Technology. After graduating, he moved to New York, where he began his career in the television industry with a low-level job at NBC. Laid off a year later, Barris was unemployed for a year before being hired by ABC, where he worked with Dick Clark, the host of American Bandstand. Barris later sold the pilot of his own show, The Dating Game, to ABC. The Dating Game was an immediate hit, moving to primetime in 1966 and paving the way for Barris' popular The Newlywed Game. Barris continued to utilize the same formula in three more shows, The Family Game, Dream Girl of 1968, and How's Your Mother-in-Law? In 1968, he founded his own company, Barris Industries, which would produce television programs such as The Game Game and Operation Entertainment. The Newlywed Show