[silence] Cage quiz shows

[John Whiting]

Stefano Pocci wrote:

> Actually I have heard that Berio and others managed to get the right answers
> thanks to their Rai contacts in order to let Cage win the money he needed, but 
> maybe these are just urban legends:-).

It depends on whom you want to believe. As told by Luciano Berio at an Electric 
Phoenix rehearsal in my London studio, several of Cage's friends, including Berio and 
a staff member at RAI, decided that, because he needed the money, Cage must be made 
to win. And so, just before the final broadcast, the RAI man gained access to the 
office of the program's producer, found the mushroom questions in his desk, copied 
them, and gave them to Cage. Luciano did not state whether Cage already knew the 
answers. The rest, as they say, is history. Those who are convinced that Cage was 
incorruptable may prefer to believe that Berio was a liar.

John Whiting
www.whitings-writings.com