Bob Mondello
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On Broadway, 65 years ago, he was doing his best to prompt a smile.
He took a week off from Bye Bye Birdie to audition for a TV sitcom Carl Reiner was cooking up.
And once that was established, Disney tapped him to play a chimney sweep opposite Julie Andrews.
Van Dyke would star in dozens of other projects, from Bedknobs and Broomsticks to a guest appearance on Days of Our Lives a couple of years ago at 97.
Dick Van Dyke still playing at the age of 100.
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Rabbits and Foxes and Witches, oh my.
I want the fox and the rabbit.
And the Oz prequel sequel, Wicked for Good.
Are burning up the cinema turnstiles with what's predicted to be a combined Thanksgiving weekend total of a quarter of a billion dollars in North America?
The Zoo Critters lead with roughly $155 million, while in their second week, the Pink and Green Witches are collecting about $95 million.
Combined, that puts them well ahead of the top five hits in most pre-pandemic weekends, but behind last year's all-time power couple, the first Wicked and Moana 2.
She was a librarian, he was a postal clerk, and in 1960s art studios, they spent pennies for works by such not-yet-famous artists as Jeff Koons, Sol LeWitt, and Christo, as Dorothy told a documentarian in 2008.
They endeared themselves by coming cash in hand and only taking home what they could carry in a taxi, filling their tiny rent-controlled apartment with one of the world's most important collections of conceptual art.