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Ward on the Street: Drew Carey is (casting) calling you
If there is a Los Angeles counterpart to Willy Wonka’s factory, it just might be the set of The Price Is Right.
Nestled behind ominous gates and constructed in huge windowless compounds, both fantasylands feature poppy cardboard backdrops, unabashed use of glitter and heart-wrenching nostalgia. But while Wonka had troupes of orange folks in unflattering trousers doing his dirty work, the iconic, Wonka-esque Bob Barker and his Charlie-like aw-shucks successor, Drew Carey, both have a cadre of (also orange) spray-tanned models to elegantly caress dinette sets and boxes of Rice-A-Roni.
(Hot girls with Drewchebags?)
Sadly, you can’t try out to be an Oompa-Loompa anywhere, but you can audition to join Carey's regal harem Friday, August 22, at the CBS Studio Center (in Studio City, not the one on Fairfax). Whiten your teeth with NASA-grade chemicals, get acrylic nail wraps, and head to Soundstage 20 any time between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. In a marriage of corporate sponsorship, Fantastic Sam's will provide on-site stylists to give you "last looks" (i.e., a veil of hairspray) before you're ushered into a room to be videotaped fondling bottles of shampoo and sustaining a frozen smile.
If you're pleasantly attractive enough, they'll call you onto the show as a finalist, and America will choose to keep you or diss you. After all, no TV show is complete without some sort of "You vote for the winner" factor. Hey, it's easier than wrangling Oompa-Loompas.
—Alie Ward
Miss Alie Ward
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