Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ Dies at 96<br />Monty Hall, the genial host and co-creator of “Let’s Make a Deal,” the game show on which contestants in outlandish costumes shriek<br />and leap at the chance to see if they will win the big prize or the booby prize behind door No.<br />Mr. Hall recalled it somewhat differently in 2013: The game changer, he said, was a woman carrying a sign<br />that said, “Roses are red, violets are blue, I came here to deal with you.”<br />Whatever it was that opened the floodgates, would-be deal makers were soon showing<br />up wearing live-bird hats, Tom Sawyer costumes or boxes resembling refrigerators.<br />A woman might sell Mr. Hall the contents of her handbag for $150, and then agree to trade<br />that $150 for whatever was behind a curtain, or in a big box, in the hope that it was something valuable — say, a $759 refrigerator-freezer stocked with $25 worth of cottage cheese and a $479 sewing machine.
