Who will replace Bob Barker? I know!!

Not that I've heard anything, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be this guy, Doug Davidson, who has played detective Paul Williams on daytime soap "The Young and the Restless" since 1978 (that's 28 long years, my friends). Among Mr. Davidson's not-so-lengthy list of credits is "The New Price Is Right," a syndicated version (what, the Barker one isn't syndicated?) of the show that ran from 1994-95. So he already knows something about the "80 games" that comprise the "Price Is Right" canon of goofy contests in which people out of the audience vie to win those cars, appliances and Broyhill bedroom sets. (Here's a screen grab of Davidson wearing his "Price" pants a decade ago. Call him tanned, rested and ready, if you must.) The history of Davidson's "Y&R" character is as long and sordid as that of any daytime performer. Well, may not that sordid, but you don't last nearly three decades on the soaps without a little sordidity in your life (and yes, I know full well that "sordidity" is not a real word, but I'm thinking of tradmarking it).