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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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 Posted: 20-08-2013 11:55 Post subject: Lucky Escapes |
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Couldn't find a thread dedicated to lucky escapes, so this is it. Unless, someone knows otherwise?
Previously on the Dick van Dyke Show:
| Pietro_Mercurios wrote: | Friendly porpoises save Dick Van Dyke from a watery grave.
Supercalifragilistickexpealidocious!  |
That was three years ago. Well he's had another lucky escape, this time his sports car burst into flames, not Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a Jaguar!
| Quote: | http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/20/dick-van-dyke-cheats-death-sports-car-fire
Dick Van Dyke cheats death again after escaping sports car fire
Mary Poppins star who was saved from drowning by porpoises has another lucky escape after his car catches fire on a freeway
theguardian.com, Ben Child. 20 August 2013
Three years after he was rescued by porpoises who noticed he had dozed off aboard his surfboard, legendary US comic Dick Van Dyke has had another lucky escape. The veteran entertainer was yesterday pulled from his sports car by a passer-by after it caught fire on a Californian freeway.
Van Dyke's rescuer, Jason Pennington, told the gossip site TMZ he was driving along route 101 in Calabasas when he noticed a smoke-filled Jaguar which had pulled up to the side of the road. Inside an elderly man - 87-year-old Van Dyke - was struggling to escape.
Helped by two off-duty nurses, Pennington swiftly opened the driver door and pulled the Mary Poppins star from the vehicle as flames tore through its engine. Van Dyke did not require medical attention and was said to be recovering well at home after his wife, Arlene, arrived on the scene to pick him up. The Hollywood Reporter says the actor may not actually have been aware his car was on fire prior to the rescue. Two eastbound lanes of the freeway were closed for a short time, according to local police.
Van Dyke seems to have taken the experience in his stride. He later tweeted a photograph of the burnt out Jag with the caption: "Used Jag for sale REAL CHEAP!!" His wife tweeted: "He's fine thank God!!"
In November 2010 Van Dyke made the headlines after a pod of porpoises pushed him to shore when he fell asleep on his surfboard and woke out of sight of land. The actor's film credits include Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Dick Tracy, while his TV drama Diagnosis: Murder ran from 1993 to 2001. Van Dyke's most recent role was in comedy Night at the Museum and its 2009 sequel, though his scenes only appeared on the DVD extras package of the second film. |
Chim-chiminey chim chim cheree! indeed! What is that chap on?   |
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Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 20-08-2013 12:47 Post subject: |
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| If he's not careful he'll be on "Diagnosis:Murder,she wrote." The infamous cross-over show with that other Disney star Angela Lansbury. |
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| Ronnor Yeti Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Total posts: 82 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-08-2013 17:42 Post subject: |
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| Off topic I know, but I mentioned this news story to a colleague in the office today and he told me a great wee tale about Chitty Chity Bang Bang. Heather Ripley, who played Dick Van Dyke's daughter, was from Dundee. Her parents ran an Opticians shop and lived three doors down from my colleague. After Heather got the part she travelled to wherever it was filmed with her mother as a chaparone, while her dad stayed at home to run the shop. The mother ended up having an affair with fellow Scot James Robertson Justice, who played Truly Scruptious' father, and decided that she would leave her husband to be with him; it didn't work out but the family split up as a result. For the rest of his life Mr Ripley could not bear to watch the film his daughter starred in and which cost him his wife, so he died in the 1990s without ever seeing it. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 20-08-2013 17:53 Post subject: |
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| What a sad story. James Robertson Justice wasn't really Scottish, though, he wanted to be so he pretended for most of his life. Strange chap. |
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