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Old 12-11-07 | 03:26 PM
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Alex Trebek suffers mild heart attack

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By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press Writer
51 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES - Longtime "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek was hospitalized Tuesday after a minor heart attack, a spokesman for the game show said.

Trebek, 67, was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center late Monday night and was expected to remain there about two days for tests and observation, said show spokesman Jeff Ritter.

"Thankfully it was a minor heart attack," Ritter said. He did not give other details.

A post on the official "Jeopardy!" Web site said Trebek was "resting comfortably in a Los Angeles hospital, and he will be back in the studio for the next scheduled tapings in January." His heart attack was first reported by "Entertainment Tonight."

The Canadian-born Trebek has hosted the syndicated show since 1984. He has won several daytime Emmy Awards for his work and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Trebek escaped a car crash unhurt in 2004 when he fell asleep at the wheel, sideswiped a string of mailboxes and wound up in a ditch, according to the California Highway Patrol.

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I'll also take "You beat me to it" for $0.

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I blame the WGA for Alex's ill health.
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Damn he's 67??Didn't think he was quite that old.
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Old 12-11-07 | 03:53 PM
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I'll also take "You beat me to it" for $0.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=519784
And search was down for awhile here, so I wasn't able to search. And once I saw that thread, I tried to delete this, but as you know we cannot delete anymore.

Well, at least it's in the right forum here!

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This motherfucker's got 9 lives, apparently.
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If he has another one, would we call it double coronary?

Would that be followed by final coronary?
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Here's hoping he'll grow his moustache back now. That clean shaven look has been nothing but trouble.
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I visited someone in the hospital who had reportedly suffered a *minor* heart attack. I was told by the gentlemen there is no such thing...you either have a heart attack or you don't.
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I visited someone in the hospital who had reportedly suffered a *minor* heart attack. I was told by the gentlemen there is no such thing...you either have a heart attack or you don't.
Yes, but the amount of damage to the heart muscle varies from attack to attack. I would interpret "minor" to mean that minimal damage to the heart has occurred.
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