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Large print book

My lucky life in and out of show business : a memoir

Call Number

  • LARGE TYPE 921 V248 (CEN)

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Edition

1st large print ed.

Publication Information

[New York] : Random House Large Print, 2011.

Physical Description

381 p. (large print) : 24 cm.

Summary

The star of one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1960s and of classic films such as "Mary Poppins" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," Dick Van Dyke pens a lively, heartwarming memoir of his multi-layered life.

Contents

  • Step in time
  • The yawn patrol
  • Special services
  • The Merry Mutes
  • Live on the air
  • A seven-year contract
  • Laugh lines
  • Bye Bye Birdie
  • Rob and Laura Petrie
  • Showtime
  • Business as usual
  • A jolly holiday
  • Family values
  • Seeing stars
  • Upsets and good-byes
  • Never a dull moment
  • Some kind of nut
  • The new Dick Van Dyke
  • The morning after
  • Sailing away
  • Another fine mess
  • Divorce American style
  • Em-va-zema
  • Strong medicine
  • The old man and the TV
  • Diagnosis fun
  • Curtain calls.

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