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Article: Bob Barker: game-show host, 83, Hollywood.(What I've Learned)(Interview)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Cars and money. Everybody wants cars and money.
I did Truth or Consequences for eighteen years. I've done Price Is Right for thirty-five years. I did Miss USA and Miss Universe for twenty-one years. I did the Rose Parade for twenty-one years, and I did the Pillsbury Bake-Off for fifteen years. I did the Indianapolis 500 parade for twenty years. I'm a guy who's kept a job once he got it.
Why should I pay attention to prices? I can't win.
I was married at twenty-one; Dorothy Jo was twenty. She was with me all the time until she died. For some men, maybe a second or third marriage would work out fine. In my case, I had my marriage and she was the ...