The $32,000 Question  Who the hell is Stan Flouride, and what
was he doing on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?  Home viewers
didn't get to see Regis Philbin's initial reaction when Stan
Flouride, a local eccentric and neighborhood fixture in San
Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District, won the "fastest fingers"
round on ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and made his way
to the hot seat.  "Stan, you're just what we've been looking
for!" the game show host exclaimed, outdoing even his typical,
manic exuberance.  Philbin's gleefully biased remark was edited
for broadcast, but perhaps he can be forgiven for gushing a
little. His show doesn't get many multipierced, tattooed
contestants sporting red, white, and blue hair and wearing the
charm beads of a Wiccan wizard around their necks. Indeed,
Millionaire has become the "pasty, middle-aged, white guy show,"
as Flouride calls it, referring to the continuous stream of
contestants who are seemingly cut from the same mold. The show's
producers don't cast players but rely