And that is the way it goes.
Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke, 99, handled a crowd of followers to one thing particular on Sunday when he sang the basic “Mary Poppins” music “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” throughout an occasion in Malibu, Calif.
Van Dyke first carried out the beloved tongue tornado tune in 1964 when he starred because the chimney sweep Bert alongside Julie Andrews’ titular Mary Poppins. Greater than 60 years later, and the “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” star reprised the music with no single mistake.
A video of the beautiful efficiency was shared on Instagram over the weekend by a fortunate attendee who was within the viewers at Vandy Camp – the month-to-month occasion hosted by Van Dyke and his spouse, Arlene Silver, at Aviation Nation Dreamland to lift cash for numerous charitable causes.
This month’s proceeds went to the Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Basis (LAEPF) Group Brigade, per Leisure Weekly. Final month’s occasion raised cash for aid following the harmful Palisades Fires.
“Actual dream come true today seeing [Dick Van Dyke] in person,” the fortunate attendee wrote alongside the clip of the well-known entertainer singing “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”
However the “Mary Poppins” favourite was not the one quantity that Van Dyke sang on Sunday, as a result of the video additionally captured the virtually 100-year-old “Bye Bye Birdie” actor performing a number of hits from his 78-year profession – together with the theme music to “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”
Van Dyke’s Vandy Camp efficiency on Sunday, April 20, got here the identical day that he and his spouse sat down with Individuals to debate their 13-year marriage and 46-year age hole.
“We get along so well,” Van Dyke instructed the journal.
“We just care about each other so much,” Silver, 53, added.
“Everybody said it wouldn’t work,” the “Mary Poppins” star continued, earlier than his spouse chimed in, “Yeah. I mean, it’s like eerie how well it works. People the same age don’t last.”
Van Dyke additionally detailed the primary time he met Silver, a make-up artist, producer and actress, backstage on the SAG Awards in 2006.
“I never said hello to a strange girl in my life. I was too scared,” he recalled. “But I was at a show backstage and she walked by, and for some reason, I just jumped up and said, ‘Hi, I’m Dick.’ There’s something about her that got me, and I was right.”
As for his or her Malibu dwelling, which nearly burned down within the wildfires, the pair stated that they “love it” and it’s their “favorite place.”
“We just love being home,” Silver stated. “We love Malibu, and it’s our favorite place, our house especially. So this is like our, you’re at our house. We’re so grateful. Our house did get hit by the Franklin fire, but in the scheme of things, we got very lucky.”
“And I’m seven months from a hundred,” Van Dyke, who nonetheless goes to the health club 3 times every week, added.
