As a rabid New Jersey Lottery player, it's hard not to notice the graphics on its web page and television commercials of Ray Charles, who is now the Lottery's celebrity spokesman. Ray even has his own lottery ticket named after the Lottery's slogan: "For Every Dream, There's A Jackpot".
It's funny that the man who sang of the evils of gambling in his 1950's side for Atlantic Records called "Blackjack" is now promoting a state lottery.
On a related matter, I do sense a passing of the torch coming very soon. The Lottery has recently hired a new television hostess named Carmen Delia Torres. As identifiable as Hela Young has been for the last 25 years doing the televised Lottery drawings and being the Lottery's most prolific PR representative (riding the Lottery floats in parades with Lottery director Ginny Haines), I really wonder if the beautiful Carmen is being groomed as her eventual replacement.
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Carmen Delia Torres got married, became Carmen Delia Bryant, then disappeared from the Lottery show. The primary Lottery host now is Renai Ellison, a former plus-size model who's slimmed down, with help from Meredith Orlow and Joe Derose.
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