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Merv Griffin Dies, TMZ Mourns

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Merv Griffin, renowned talk show host and creator of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 82. The always-respectful organization TMZ, best known for capturing starlets' vaginas as they exit vehicles, was quick to create the touching eulogy above. Of course, now that that they've wasted this idea they'll have to use the moving image of a skeleton splayed across the big wheel if Pat Sajak dies.

1925-2007 [TMZ]

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