Dick Van Dyke News

After years, actress finally alights in 'Bird' MICHAEL ALAGO Sylvia Miles will appear with Brian Patacca in Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth.'' ) It's difficult to determine where to begin an interview with feisty spitfire Sylvia Miles.

Jim Ballard plays the role of Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie. The Blowing Rock Stage Company will present the hit Broadway musical at the Hayes Center Friday, July 17, through Sunday, August 2. It's as American as baseball, apple pie and Elvis.

After a 10-year hiatus from mainstream movies, Brooke Shields is returning to the big screen in the family comedy "Furry Vengeance." Also joining the Summit/Participant Media project are Dick Van Dyke, Ken Jeong and Samantha Bee.

The 2006 classic adventure, "Night at the Museum," will be Hamilton Theater 's first "Movie Under the Stars" beginning about 9:30 p.m. Thursday, July 2. The presentation will be held at Hooks Wiltse Field located on Eaton Street in Hamilton.

Some second bananas who have brightened late-night TV: -Dagmar: Bombshell who became a household name in the early 1950s on "Broadway Open House"; her dumb blonde act became so popular she received 2,000 fan letters a week.

";" src="http://www.etonline.com/media/video/2009/06/97275/et_tvdads_090618_large.jpg" style="border-width:0px;" /> "Two and a Half Men" star John Cryer and many more of TV's most familiar fathers were all in one place Thursday night -- the TV Academy's Father's Day Salute to TV Dads! With Father's Day approaching this weekend, the academy is ...

Cue the theme music: Dick Van Dyke is writing a memoir. The star of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and such films as "Mary Poppins" and "Bye, Bye Birdie" will tell of his long career in a memoir scheduled to be published in the fall of 2010 by Harmony Books, which announced the release Monday.

TV's Dick Van Dyke , would get prime rib au jus for dinner on Father's Day. My favorite TV father is Rob Petrie from the 1960s "The Dick Van Dyke Show." He was funny, charming, a talented singer/dancer, slightly neurotic at times, and worked in New York City with other funny, talented people.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she accepts David Letterman 's apology, 'on behalf of all young women, like my daughters, who hope men who 'joke' about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve.' On his CBS' 'Late Show' on Monday, Letterman said his joke about Palin's daughters being 'knocked up' by Alex Rodriguez can't be ...

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.

On the contrary, he is attracted to apparently meaningless human beings who make mistakes, have flaws and are likely to mess things up a little bit such as Peter Sellers in Blake Edwards' The Party, Bill Murray in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation or the main characters in the US sitcoms Seinfeld or Friends.

"CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG," National Tour, Capitol Theatre, through June 14, 801-355-2787; running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" has haunted me for years - ever since we watched the old Dick Van Dyke movie on Movie Day at Jackling Elementary.

Thursday "Bye Bye Birdie:" The Aero Theatre in the heart of Santa Monica is screening this beloved musical in a restored 35mm print.

From a 65-year-old franchise comes a palatable, even occasionally fizzy concoction kids will gulp up and their folks won't choke on.

John Stamos talks 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'ER' spinoff rumors, and 'Full House: The Movie' This weekend, John Stamos heads to New York to present at Sunday's Tony Awards .

Actor Steve Wilson, starring in the current tour of the musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," is breaking a well-known stage rule - and then some: Never act with kids, animals or flying cars.

What can I say? Once a Disney fan, always a Disney fan. I got hooked when I was a kid, long before Disney had its own channel.

As much as I enjoyed the Broadway version of "Mary Poppins" - and I really did enjoy it - I was very let down by the exclusion of one of my favorite numbers from the old Disney movie: "I Love to Laugh." I know it's goofy, but there's just something about Ed Wynn and Dick Van Dyke being so carried away in hilarity that they can't even keep their ...

Boy, when the season ends, the networks slam down the shutters with the alacrity of DMV clerks at closing time.

Twentieth Century Fox Larry Daley and Amelia Earhart consult a bust of Theodore Roosevelt in "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian." The film is in theaters now.