Dick Van Dyke

Absolutely...not.

Well, maybe...

Very doubtful, but I suppose he might have dabbled with Mr. Adamo.

LOVE him, BTW.

Oh, Rob!

I am always struck by the fact that he shows no bulge whatsoever in those tight pants that he wears on the show.

Jerry Helper shows a nice package sometimes. I loved Jerry Paris. I thought he was so handsome and he died at such a youngish age.

Why would you think he's gay? I can't think of any reason to assume Dick Van Dyke even might have been gay.

His son Barry was sex on a stick.

I had a HUGE hard-on for Barry Van Dyke when I was a kid.

No Gay man would allowed that accent in Mary Poppins to be filmed.

Terrific autobiography. Was surprised to learn in the book that while he was doing "Bye Bye Birdie" on Broadway he was living a couple of blocks from me on Long Island when I was a small child.

I didn't know Michelle Triola died.

My brother ran into Dick in Aspen a few years ago. Dick was very cruisy. Conclusion at the time: Dick is gay.

To me, he is one of the most surprising celebrity alcoholics. I always thought of him as having it totally together.

Agree, R9. The memoir is very good.

He really hid his alcoholism well. Along with internalizing all his other pain.

And I don't think he had gay tendencies.

Didn't know he was an alcoholic. What happened to him that caused him pain?

In an interview Richard Deacon alluded to the fact that he wasn't the only gay cast member on The Dick Van Dyke show. He might have meant Rose Marie though.

good autobio., classy guy. happy he has a barbershop group to sing with these days.

You kind of have to read between the lines of the book and amateur psychoanalyze--and I'll get slammed for it, I'm sure. But his home life growing up wasn't especially happy, he struggled for a long time to get a career going, he married because he thought that was what you were supposed to do, and didn't especially know his wife or particularly love her. They lost a baby.

Through all of that, he was the archetypal sad clown who repressed his feelings because he felt he was meant to entertain and make people happy and stay upbeat above all else. So he did. And he also drank.

With a name like Dick Van Dyke, he was screwed right from the beginning.

Rose Marie isn't gay. Her husband died in 1966, and Sally Rogers wore black in all the rest of the episodes of DVD Show that were filmed after that.

So, it's not Rose Marie, it's not MTM ... I hope Richard Deacon wasn't referring to Morey Amsterdam.

[quote]Didn't know he was an alcoholic. What happened to him that caused him pain?

I took it as being the Fifties and Sixties andeverybody drank, and he liked it. He liked it a lot.

obviously

As he lived with a woman for 30 years, I would say it is unlikely that he was homosexual. Movie stars needing a beard usually marry them, or serially date them, but don't cohabit with them for three decades.

No, but maybe his brother is.

[quote]I hope Richard Deacon wasn't referring to Morey Amsterdam.

It's Little Ritchie.

"What the hell's a dick van dyke?"

Dick Van Dyke is not gay.

Barry Van Dyke has a serious case of Big Dick Face. I will never forget that one episode of Diagnosis Murder Barry was in a jacuzzi wearing nothing but tight shorts. Major bulge and an overall incredible body. I envy the wife who gets a piece of that every night.

Barry's son Shane Van Dyke ain't that bad either.

What had Dick done before Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway that gave some star status with Chita Rivera in that show? Are those two still in touch?

WTF, OP, are you a moron??

Barry Van Dyke had a beefcake calendar out back in the '80s that showed off his smoking hot body. I wish I still had it.

Just saw him on an informercial and he still looks good.

What was the first season or episode with MTM and DVD on the DVD Show? I ordered season 1 disk 1 of the DVD show on netflix, and neither one was on it. It was with Carl Reiner.

I think the first season was 1961.

Laura Petrie had exactly the same hairdo as Jackie Kennedy. There was an outcry of protest from American housewives who did not want to see Laura in capri slacks and so Mary wore them far less after Season I. Maybe not at all. American husbands and their gay little sons missed them.

Dick, Mary and Rose Marie were all heavy smokers though their characters never smoked. But Dick did commercials for the cigarette sponsor (Kent or Parliament?) and was seen smoking in those spots.

r31, the one episode with Carl Reiner is the pilot. Mary Tyler Moore and DVD were always on the DVD show - they replaced Reiner and Barbara Britton from the pilot.

Don't think he's gay but Dick has Big DICK face

[quote]What had Dick done before Bye Bye Birdie

He had been on Pat Boone's variety show, though I'm not sure how often.

He starred in a really cool movie called, "The Comedian."

"My brother ran into Dick in Aspen a few years ago. Dick was very cruisy. Conclusion at the time: Dick is gay."

That's a very lame bullshit story. I don't believe it for a minute. You must have a lot of time on your hands.

[quote]Dick, Mary and Rose Marie were all heavy smokers though their characters never smoked. But Dick did commercials for the cigarette sponsor (Kent or Parliament?) and was seen smoking in those spots.

It was Kent cigarettes that they did commercials for. Unbelievable today to imagine tv stars (or any other actors, for that matter) doing cigarette commercials, but those were the times. Mary Tyler Moore smoked back then and she said that every Friday, the Kent cigarette co. would deliver cases of cigs to the set, and everybody who worked on the show got a free carton. Mary hated Kents, so on her drive home at night she would stop at the store and exchange her carton of Kents for a carton of whatever brand she preferred.

I used to smoke, and Kents were the worst cigarettes. Just nasty, and I'd only smoke one if I was desperate.

I nominate R26 for wit and wisdom! Made me laugh out loud! :)

Dick and Chita are indeed close. She was on his follow up sitcom to the classic DVD. Most recently, he did cameo appearances in her one woman show.

Before Birdie, Dick was in a stage revue called The Girls Against The Boys and hosted TV shows.

Looks gay here -

There was an old Dick Van Dyke show episode where he showed his feets. Use to get off on that.

I had the biggest crush on him when I was a kid!

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I wish they'd show his '70s sitcom in syndication. Hope Lange, Fannie Flagg, and some other great supporting actors. I haven't seen it in years.

Richard Deacon was a big old queen, literally and figuratively.

He dedicates chapters in his book to the love of his life Michelle Triolo who he met after she sued Lee Marvin for palimony after he left her penniless after years of living together. He was devastated when she died of lung cancer.

Dick is doing his first autograph show with son Barry next week January 24th.

I doubt he's gay, and I won't hold that against him.

He's fabulous.

Not even his disastrous accents (as mentioned previously) in the movie Mary Poppins can diminish my enjoyment of his energetic and sweet performance(s).

The DVD show is one for the ages.

Dick was an abusive drunk, while Mary Tyler Moore was an abusive, poor mother and smoking machine. Rose Marie was a bitter bitch who hated the fact she never got passed her childhood stardom, which was in itself, just a fluke.

I do believe both Rob and Laura smoked in episodes of the DVD show. Though I don't recall Sally Rogers smoking.

[quote[Didn't know he was an alcoholic. What happened to him that caused him pain?

Well, first of all, remember he's a comedian, and almost every comedian ever is a very angry and unhappy person. And also remember he came of age professionally in the early 60s when everyone drank like fishes.

Apparently his drinking got out of control when he hurt his back really badly while filming the "Truly Scrumptious" dance number in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" while twisting those candy tray carts around the factory floor. Already quite a drinker, he used alcohol to help him self-medicate, and it got completely out of control. That was also when his career was practically over--he had gone from being a very popular and hip Tv star the decade before to being a hasbeen in children's movies.

[quote]she never got passed her childhood stardom

Oh, dear.

I loved Rose Marie so much on Dick van Dyke.

Here's the Warner Bros short Rose Marie made me in 1929 as "Baby Rose Marie, the Child Wonder," when she was the biggest child star in the entire nation. It's amazing to think she's still alive today at age 91.

In spite of his criticized accent, his performance in Mary Poppins is a tour de force and he plays 2 roles.

I loved when Rose Marie would sing on Dick van Dyke--she lost her great voice after childhood, but her smokers' raspy voice was still incredibly interesting and she still had a great way with a song after her years of child stardom. Her best one was "Crying Out My Heart for You" (see 2:18 at the clip)."

Sally sucked the meat.

I saw him leap to the stage not long ago (to accept an award) with the vigor of a man half his age. Very impressive

R54 the first thing I ever saw Rose Marie on was a Monkees episode, actually. I didnt see a DvD ep until later.

A voiceover guy I've known for 40 years worked for Dick when he owned KXIV in Phoenix, late 60's - early 70's, when Dick lived and filmed the New Dick Van Dyke show out in Carefree. Van Dyke started years earlier in the business as a DJ.

KXIV was a tiny coffeepot AM station on 1400. Dolly Holiday's sort of surreal Holiday Inn Nightime Show overnights and a cranky right wing shock talker named John Sage evenings, plus great MOR standards and jocks in the daytime. Those were the (radio) days.

Meg Tilly tells some anecdotes about Michelle Triola Marvin Van Dyke Dexter Rowan.

His cameo in Mary Poppins returns made me teary. I know. MARY! But he seems like a lovely human.

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