Looking for links; weak ones OK

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June, 2002

Byline: MARK BAKER The Register-Guard

Tami Sanders-Bell came because her daughters made her.

Denise Smith came because she's a game-show veteran.

Mike Burns came because he wanted to experience the humiliation firsthand.

"I was looking for the old lady to come out and talk bad to me," the 27-year-old Eugene upholsterer said with a hint of disappointment.

But Anne Robinson and her curt dismissals weren't even here.

In fact, this was an audition for the syndicated version of the game show "The Weakest Link," not the prime-time version shown on NBC and made popular by Robinson, the Brit best known for her rude behavior and the show's signature line: "You are the weakest link - goodbye!"

The show, which was...