The Week contest: Famous digs
Last week's question: Dozens of gravediggers recently battled to prove they were the best in the burial business at Hungary's first grave-digging competition. If a TV network were to make a game show in which celebrities competed to dig the fastest, neatest grave, what title could they give the program?
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THE WINNER: "Hollywood Rectangles"
Emily McClatchey, Winchester, Mass.
SECOND PLACE: "Cemetery Apprentice"
David Foster, Kensington, Md.
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THIRD PLACE: "So, You Think You Can Dig?"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pa.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"MTV Crypts"
Keith Noto, San Francisco
"Intertainment Tonight"
David P. Barrett, Jackson, Mich.
"Six Feet Wonder"
Terry Schwinghammer, Washington, Pa.
"Good Mourning America"
Joe Frank, Scottsdale, Ariz.
"Dig, Brother"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
"Whose Shrine Is It Anyway?"
Michael A. Hirst, Davis, Calif.
"The Newlydead Game"
Rich Greene, Novato, Calif.
"Game of Tombs"
Barbara Farrell, Salem, S.C.
"Who Wants to Bury a Millionaire?"
Dave Grossman, Petaluma, Calif.
"Grave Expectations"
Suzanne Brooks, Quechee, Vt.
"The Quick and the Dead"
John Simmons, Atlanta
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