Time for a Dick pic

[Dem4Life1102]

Happy 95th birthday Mr. Van Dyke!

[My Pet Orangutan]

1. Cockney accent of shame edition :)

[boston bean]

2. Isn't he a trumper?

Shameful, really.

[Harker]

3. No.

He endorsed Bernie Sanders.

[JoeOtterbein]

11. Cool...

...Dude!

[mahina]

5. Oh gosh no. He's all blue.

[Dem4Life1102]

6. Nope

https://people.com/politics/dick-van-dyke-serenades-crowd-at-bernie-sanders-rally-after-formal-endorsement/

[Turin_C3PO]

9. No, absolutely not.

You scared me for a second but I looked him up. He’s a solid progressive.

[Dave Starsky]

14. Fuck, no.

He can't stand Trump. Dude's a solid Dem.

[luvs2sing]

4. I love him so much.

Funny thing..my father could have been a Dick Van Dyke double. The resemblance was so strong that, when I was a very young child, I thought that was my dad on TV every week with Mary Tyler Moore.

Dad has been gone many years now, but the older Dick Van Dyke gets, the stronger the resemblance. Seeing him warms my heart.

[nuxvomica]

7. One question I'd like to ask him:

What did they do with all the walnuts? Were they donated to charity (most likely St. Jude's)? Did cast and crew take a bag home? If you see him, ask him for me. He'll know what you're talking about.

[Auggie]

12. What the cast didn't eat during production were returned to the supplier

Show was on a tight budget and nothing was wasted. But I recall reading in Mary Tyler Moore’s biography that the entire crew experienced extreme flatulence the entire week because of those walnuts. — and had a good laugh over it. True story.

[nuxvomica]

21. Thanks!

I didn't expect an answer so soon! Or ever really. That's what's great about DU.

[Auggie]

24. My mind is full of mostly useless trivia like that

It May Look Like A Walnut nearly didn’t get made. Executive Producer Sheldon Leonard thought the script was too silly and out of show character. Carl Reiner lobbied for it, and it became one of the greatest sitcom episodes ever. Leonard admitted his mistake later on. He was decent that way.

[nuxvomica]

25. It really creeped me out when I first saw it as a kid

It also made me laugh. That's the key with comedy: the non-comic aspects have to work for the comic ones to be especially funny. That's what Irving Thalberg taught The Marx Brothers.

[Chipper Chat]

8. Mama, Conrad is way too young for you.

Besides, Buddy wanted to divorce Pickles and marry Sally.
And. I know.......Ohhh Robbbbb

[appalachiablue]

10. Happy Birthday! What an actor, dancer and good guy.

In great health too, dancing really keeps you in good shape. I remember when Dick talked about how quitting drinking was far easier than stopping smoking not too long ago.

[Roland99]

13. When the Great Movie Ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios closed a few years ago...

He asked for his part of the Mary Poppins scene where he’s standing on rooftops

It was all shipped out to him, animatronic figure and all!

[MrModerate]

15. Van Dyke is a fine actor and apparently a good guy...

But he still remains unpunished for the "accent" he used in the original Mary Poppins.

[Dem4Life1102]

16. Hugh Laurie got his revenge

with the crappy American accent he did on House for 8 years.

[Auggie]

17. J. Pat O'Malley, who was born in England, was Van Dyke's dialogue coach

And enough hoo-hah over that damn accent. It's a fucking movie. For children. They don't care whether the accent is accurate or not.

"Remains unpunished."

[MrModerate]

23. I hope whatever they paid O'Malley, the check bounced...

Of course, complaining about actor's accents is just good clean fun. Lighten up.

[newbedford35]

18. Dick Van Dyke was also a brilliant barbershopper

[Dem4Life1102]

19. One of my favorite Bond movies:)

[milestogo]

20. That would look clownish on anyone else.

[PlanetBev]

22. I went to high school with his sons

My high school in Van Nuys, CA had originally been a veteran’s rehabilitation hospital from WWII. It had no real football field so Dick Van Dyke and several others organized a fund raiser for that purpose.

It culminated in an amazing rock concert on May 20, 1967. The headliners at Birmingham High were The Doors and the Jefferson Airplane. I still have the ticket stub, $3.00, hard to believe.

Ah, The Sixties....

[LeftInTX]

27. Wow $3!!!!!

[BCLiberal]

26. Funny, I was afraid it was going to be one of these.....

... picture of Dick Cheney.

Canadian, lurker since Nov. 2004, joined to make that joke but couldn't figure out how to paste a picture.
I come here to get educated and informed.

[mercuryblues]

28. i thought the same thing

Cheney shooting his "friend." Now I wouldn't even sully this thread with a pic of him.

[Dem4Life1102]

30. But how about a pic of Aaron Burr

The only other VP to shoot someone while in office.

[Dem4Life1102]

29. No but

May post a pic of Nixon on the anniversary of his resignation.

[electric_blue68]

31. I thought it was going to be Nixon ...

I was at a C, S, N & Y concert in NJ when he resigned (a lot of people brought radios to the show)!

I can't remember which song they had just finished when someone ran over from off stage to whisper in one of their ears (we we're far in the back), they announced his resignation.

We went happily bonkers! 😂😂😂😂😂
It was glorious!
Then at the end (and I don't know whether they had them ready for just this occasion - or for every show) they set off fireworks! What a night!


I'm going to have to look up that episode. 😁👍