Alex Trebek dead: Ruta Lee remembers 'High Rollers' co-host - Los Angeles Times

Alex Trebek dead: Ruta Lee remembers 'High Rollers' co-host - Los Angeles Times

"For all his sly and ready humor, he may be the last television figure who possessed the kind of authority that was once called gravitas.

"But Ruta Lee remembers when Trebek was just another new kid in Hollywood, albeit one so handsome and charming that she was happy to take him under her wing.

"They met in 1974 on the set of 'High Rollers,' a then-new NBC game show in which contestants won prizes through a system of dice rolls and questions. Trebek, as host, asked the question; Lee, as cohost, rolled the dice."