Dick Van Dyke
Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, writer, singer, dancer, and producer whose career in entertainment has spanned almost seven decades. He is also a World War II United States Army Air Corps veteran. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke and father of Barry Van Dyke.
Van Dyke starred in the films Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and in the TV series The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder. He recently appeared in supporting roles in Night at the Museum and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb.
Recipient of five Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, Van Dyke was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995. He received the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the SAG Life Achievement Award, in 2013. Van Dyke has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard and has also been recognized as a Disney Legend.
Early life
Dick Van Dyke was born on December 13, 1925, in West Plains, Missouri, to Hazel Victoria (née McCord; 1896–1992), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke (1900–1976), a salesman. He grew up in Danville, Illinois. He is the older brother of actor Jerry Van Dyke, who is best known for a role on the TV series Coach. Van Dyke's grandson, Shane Van Dyke, is also an actor and directed Titanic II. Van Dyke has Dutch, Scotch-Irish and English ancestry, with a family line that traces back to Mayflower passenger John Alden.
Dick van Dyke (politician)
Dick van Dyke was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987 for district 39.
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Easy street
Easy Street may refer to:
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Easy Street (book)
Easy Street: The True Story of a Mob Family (1981) is the first memoir of Susan Berman, daughter of Las Vegas mobster David Berman. In it, Berman chronicles her mother Gladys's and her own obliviousness to what went on around them. When they finally became aware of their Mafia family, Berman's mother ended up dying in a mental institution and Susan endured a lot of psychotherapy.
Easy Street received critical acclaim and was optioned for a movie, but the film was never made.
Berman wrote a second non-fiction book, part memoir and part history, titled Lady Las Vegas: The Inside Story Behind America's Neon Oasis.
In what remains an unsolved crime, Berman was murdered in her home and her body discovered on Christmas Eve day 2000.
Further reading
Murder of a Mafia Daughter by crime writer Cathy Scott (Barricade Books, 2002)
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Easy Street (TV series)
Easy Street is an American sitcom that aired for 22 episodes on NBC during the 1986-87 television season.
Overview
The series stars Loni Anderson as L.K. McGuire, a onetime showgirl who manages to nab a young wealthy husband, only to have him die and leave her fending for herself against his embittered family, who are out to get L.K. out of the picture and away from her inherited money. Meanwhile, L.K. reconnects with a down-on-his-luck uncle, Bully Stevenson (Jack Elam) who has been on and off the streets of Los Angeles. L.K. invites him and his pal, Ricardo Williams, (Lee Weaver) to move into her vast mansion, to the consternation of her snobbish inlaws, Eleanor and Quentin Standard (Dana Ivey and James Cromwell). Quentin tends to be a bit more tolerant of L.K. and her family, but Eleanor can't stand them, and does everything possible to get rid of them all. Arthur Malet co-stars as Bobby, the McGuire's butler.
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ALBUMS
- Put on a Happy Face released: 2009
- Songs I Like (feat. The Ray Charles Singers & Enoch Light and His Orchestra) released: 1963
Put on a Happy Face
Released 2009- Put on a Happy Face
- You've Got a Friend in Me
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Baby of Mine
- High Hopes
- Bare Necessities
- Pick Yourself Up
- A Lover's Question
- It's Not Easy Being Green
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
- Theme From Dick Van Dyke Show
- A Visit From St. Nicholas
- Old Fashioned Christmas
Songs I Like (feat. The Ray Charles Singers & Enoch Light and His Orchestra)
Released 1963- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Easy Street
- Bye Bye Birdie: Put on a Happy Face
- Walkin' and Whistlin' Blues
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Any Place I Hand My Hat Is My Home
- Ain't We Got Fun
- They All Laughed
- Wives and Lovers
- Lazybones
- My Baby Just Cares for Me
- When You Want 'em, You Can't Get 'em, When You've Got 'em, You Can't Get 'em
- I've Got a Crush on You
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by Mike Heron
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by Edgar Winter Group
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by David Lee Roth
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by Soul Asylum
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by Annie
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by Disney
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by Shyheim
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by Electric Light Orchestra
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by Richard Shindell
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by Sister Sledge
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by Mickey Newbury
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by Emerson Drive
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by David Knopfler
Easy Street
by: Mike HeronI can’t buy you no more drinks baby
My time is gettin’ low
I got to go get Louis, you got to go get a new beau
Oh, go get yourself a new man
Go get a new beau
Why don’t you try living on Easy Street if you can, where the
Cold winds don’t blow
Me I clearly state I am just an accident of fate
I’m a guy who’s lost the way
Lost the way to Easy Street
Easy, Easy Street
Louis I guess you know I’m on the run
Back street diners and a long road
Oh Louis I guess you know I’ll get you someday (I will)
And I know where you’re living
It’s on Easy Street
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