We Miss Amy

Anyone who has been watching 'Jeopardy' for the past two weeks knows that once Amy Schneider was knocked off by a one-night wonder librarian, there have been a succession of one-night champions, with only one guy so far winning two games. Amy, where are you? At your agent's office? Tax attorney?  A book deal beckons? She's taking a leave of absence from her job.

Last night was no different. One and done. There's more champion turnover than New York Yankee managers during the height of the George Steinbrenner era.

Missing are the rapid responses—invariably correct responses—that Amy machine gunned at the board. Now there can be quiet, because either no one knows the answer, or two people don't know the answer and the third is too reluctant to try. I wonder if the clue creators get points for devising a clue that no one can answer. Some of those clues have more twists than that crooked street in San Francisco.

Amy is still in the news. The WSJ did a recent A-Hed piece on how her dress style has become influential. Namely the pearls she took to wearing during each telecast. To me, there was nothing about Amy that screamed "style," but apparently she's responsible for an uptick in that classic fashion accessory, a string of pearls.

To me, pearls are a '50s thing sported by the moms imitating Donna Reed on 'The Donna Reed' Show. But since the '50s are a lifetime ago, it is not surprising that pearl popularity is spurred on by something else, especially since I haven't seen any reruns of 'The Donna Reed Show.'

Since Amy's giant upper left arm tattoo was always covered, there is no mention of women flocking to imitate that one, but you never know. Amy's tattoo is of Princess Ozma of Oz.

Amy explained on Twitter: "My tattoo is indeed of Ozma of Oz. For those who don't know, L. Frank Baum wrote many sequels to The Wizard of Oz, and in all of them the ruler of Oz was Princess Ozma. She had been the rightful heir, but was kidnapped as a baby by a sorceress, who enchanted her to become a boy." [Tip] 

In a subsequent Frank Baum story, the Good Sorceress discovered what had happened and forced Mombi to turn Tip back into Ozma; ever since then, the Princess has possessed the Throne of Oz. Everyone knows by now Amy is transgender. It all fits. What MGM didn't tell us in 1939. And no doubt why there wasn't a sequel. 

At this point, the 7:00 P.M. telecast of  'Jeopardy' is not must-see-TV for me. The turnover is starting to remind me of the Trump administration.

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