Photo courtesy ‘Wheel of Fortune’ TAKING A SPIN Santa Monica resident John Brooks, a stage door attendant and U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, will be a contestant on 'Wheel of Fortune’ tonight. With over 47 million viewers a week, syndication’s longest-running, most successful series continues to attract a larger audience than most primetime television shows. Along with ‘Jeopardy!,’ it is the first syndicated show to broadcast in high-definition.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 17, 2008. Read the original PDF.