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Currently untitled Dick Van Dyke memoir planned for fall 2010 release Oh, Rob!!!
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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Currently untitled Dick Van Dyke memoir planned for fall 2010 release Oh, Rob!!!
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Bureau News 2010
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Currently untitled Dick Van Dyke memoir planned for fall 2010 release Oh, Rob!!!
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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Currently untitled Dick Van Dyke memoir planned for fall 2010 release Oh, Rob!!!
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Megan K. Scott 2009
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I wanted to write about some of the amazing paper memorabilia I was seeing around New York related to pulp and vintage men's magazines; the dumb one day he asked me what my alter ego's name would be and I said, "Dick Van Dyke," and he didn't get it, sitting there surrounded by strap-on experts publisher at the fetish magazine wasn't interested.
Archive 2008-04-01 Burlesque Daily 2008
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I wanted to write about some of the amazing paper memorabilia I was seeing around New York related to pulp and vintage men's magazines; the dumb one day he asked me what my alter ego's name would be and I said, "Dick Van Dyke," and he didn't get it, sitting there surrounded by strap-on experts publisher at the fetish magazine wasn't interested.
My Article on NY Neo-Burlesque from Tease! Magazine Burlesque Daily 2008
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The only show in the Dick-Van-Dyke mold that succeeded was "That Girl,", perhaps because it had the most direct connections to "Dick Van Dyke," what with the daughter of "Dick Van Dyke" producer Danny Thomas as its star, and the creators were the former head writers of "Dick Van Dyke," Bill Persky and Sam Denoff.
Archive 2006-04-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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U2 guitarist The Edge wants to build five houses on a hill high above Malibu, but the project would require some feats of engineering and it may anger residents in the neighborhood below, such as Dick Van Dyke, Kelsey Grammer and
Jezebel 2009
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Plus they have the usual extras, like appreciations from other artists like Jerry Lewis and Dick Van Dyke, as well as audio tracks by scholars.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Finally, The Best Comedy Duo Of All Time Gets Their Due Michael Giltz 2011
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Plus they have the usual extras, like appreciations from other artists like Jerry Lewis and Dick Van Dyke, as well as audio tracks by scholars.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Finally, The Best Comedy Duo Of All Time Gets Their Due Michael Giltz 2011
rolig commented on the word Dick Van Dyke
In the UK, Van Dyke's name has become a byword for someone can't imitate an English accent successfully – the result of the American actor's woeful imitation of a Cockney chimney sweep in the film Mary Poppins.
Cf. the following usage:
"I’m a Londoner with a very neutral British accent living in the US and my (American) Siri doesn’t understand me either. I have to repeat myself numerous times and in an increasingly bad American accent to make myself understood. And since I am the Dick Van Dyke of American, this can get very tedious. Why not use British Siri, you ask? British Siri understands me perfectly, but unfortunately it has been programmed to say "I can only search for businesses, maps and traffic in the United States, and when you’re using US English’, which seems very unreasonable to me. Why can’t I search for US businesses in British English?"
– A reader writing on Andrew Sullivan's blog "The Daily Dish", http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/10/hogmanwhat-ctd.html
October 29, 2011