Woah he's alive!

Did you know that Dick Van Dyke was alive? I kid you not!
I was at the movies the other day, watching previews before Wallace & Gromit, and there was a preview for this little cutsie type monkey cartoon... Curious George, that's the one! So yea, the little fella's caretaker does look very 50sish in his safari outfit and his equally 1950s manly-calm-yet-youthfully-charismatic demeanor. So at the end of the preview they were listing the star's voices. There was drew barrymore who probably makes the ape sounds (or not) and some others, then there was Dick Van Dyke! I thought he was dead.
But I'm glad he's not. Don't ask me why. I'm not sure. But the point is, the dude is not only alive, but still in the film industry. I'll need to google his picture to see what he looks like now.

Ok, so I've watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang one too many times. But at least that car could of kicked Marry Poppin's ass. It could probably fly faster too. Man was she uptight and full of herself. And what's with her standing like Charlie Chaplin? For some reason I'm even imagining she was wearing the same shoes as Chaplin. She really seemed like the kind of person that could break broomsticks with sphincter muscle alone. That's not to say that I didn't secretly enjoy parts of the movie as a kid. But then again, Kids aren't picky and can watch a movie 3 times, back to back, in one sitting, as if it were a rollercoaster ride.

So the point of all this is that Dick Van Dyke is alive while Danny Kay has been dead for yonks. Time moves on steadily and mercilessly.