** FILE ** Merv Griffin, owner of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, sits poolside at the hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., in this Feb. 21, 2003 file photo. Merv Griffin, who went from big-band era crooner to fabulously successful TV talk show host before making a fortune as the creator of two of television's most popular game shows and then parlaying that into a billion-dollar hotel empire, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2007. He was 82. (AP Photo/Lucy Nicholson)