The Washington Post, April 2nd, 1989
I AM SITTING with Vanna White in her NBC Burbank "beauty parlor." She is being touched up between tapings of "Wheel of Fortune," the game show now viewed by the entertainment community as the dominant example of its genre. Vanna is dressed in a skintight gold lame gown, a gold bow in her hair, her wide face deeply tanned, her exposed neck and bosom freckled by the sun. I ask if she agrees with Ted Koppel's definition of the "Vanna Factor." Koppel, I tell her, believes that the most successful media and political figures make "empty vessels" of themselves into which their fans and constituencie...
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