Merv Griffin, a big band singer who became one of television's most popular talk-show hosts and formidable innovators, creating some of the medium's most popular game shows before becoming a major ...
LOS ANGELES Merv Griffin, the big band-era crooner turned impresario who parlayed his "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, died Sunday. He was 82. Griffin ...