As far back as he could
remember Curtis Dalrymple wanted to be just one thing: a game show host.
He grew up idolizing game
show hosts like Bill Cullen and Peter Marshall. He’d write fan mail to Bob Eubanks
and Jim Lange. When he tried to run away from home he stood at the corner holding
a sign that read “Wink Martindale’s House or Bust.”
He fantasized that maybe his
father, Curtis Sr., a genuinely nice but somewhat bland man, was actually his
stepfather, and that maybe Gene Rayburn or Art Fleming was his real father.
This didn’t please either of his parents to any great extent, although his
mother did find Art Fleming to be a rather handsome man.
