Chitty Chitty Bang Bang News

MUSICAL extravaganza Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies into Hanley from Tuesday, November 17.

Eccentric inventors were once the stuff of romantic comedy. Today they're the object of derision, anger and possible six-year jail sentences.

I don't think that Tim Burton's lavish remake is going to diminish the appeal of 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , a charming, smartly realized film version of Roald Dahl's popular children's book.

In a rare moment of curiosity, a recent World Council of Churches visitor at a North Korean Potemkin-style government-run church in Pyongyang apparently asked why no children were present.

I liked England better when it had flying cars and there were Rube Goldberg machines to help with breakfast.

Eventually made it along to see the much acclaimed touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when it arrived at the Kings Theatre in Glasgow.

Barbara Rafferty says she still feels young and fresh, despite her 36-year career.

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BACK in 1980, Shaun Bythell was a child going to the Co-op with his mother when he noticed a new store on Wigtown's North Main Street.

Features: DVD, Special Edition, Pan and Scan , Widescreen, English, Spanish, French, Subtitled Let your imagination take flight with one of the most wonderful family films of all time! Dick Van Dyke will take you on an incredible ride in an extraordinary car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Dick Van Dyke in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang sang: Me ol' bam-boo, me ol' bam-boo You'd better never bother with me ol' bam-boo You can have me hat or me bumbershoot But you'd better never bother with me ol' bam-boo. I've heard of lots of different ways to discourage bears from messing with your bam-boo, but National Geographic filmmaker Mark ...

British volunteers are nearing a solution to the mystery of how a Cheam airman was killed in a plane crash in the Malayan jungle in 1945.

THE Theatre Royal's latest summer sell-out could have earned other city businesses more than 1.5million. The final curtain came down on the spectacular Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the end of last month, the production having enticed a whopping 35,000 people through the theatre's doors during its three-week stint in the city.

Jennie Punter Last updated on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 06:12PM EDT T Directed by Gregory V. Sherman and Jeffrey C. Sherman Classification: NA They wrote the songs that made the whole world make that the small-fry world sing.

Youngsters had the chance to ride in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when the famous car came to Warwick on Monday.

Youngsters had the chance to ride in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when the famous car came to Warwick on Monday.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang . Talk about a peculiar title for a musical. Actually the title comes from the name of the flying car because of the noises it makes as it spits, sputters, and chugs along.

BASED on the book by Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, the much-loved 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starring Dick Van Dyke, was part of everyone's childhood.

Rubber-limbed comic Dick Van Dyke is writing an autobiography, set to hit shelves in fall 2010 from Random House imprint Harmony Books.

The Big Brother housemates must dance for their supper for this week's shopping task by learning the routine to Me Ol' Bamboo from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.