TV Radio Mirror (Jul - Dec 1962)

own room quite calmly. A blase attitude about Daddy's doings has been replaced by obvious pride. A family crisis In January Dick's success hit both older boys in the form of their first theatrical crisis. Both were booked to appear on the show and promised equal parts and equal billing. As usual, everybody was riveted to the set at home. It's a family affair, since many of the situations are taken from their own real life. Naturally, they all watch. "What a time we had that night," explained Dick. "I didn't realize Barry's part had been cut. The poor thing was heartbroken. He'd told all his friends he was going to be on. He raced into his room, locked the door and wouldn't come out. I tried telling him the similar situations I'd had, but it was no go. It was awful. I felt terrible. I mean. I know what it's like. That kind of disappointment has happened to me all my life." And now that the disappointments are over, what has success meant to Dick? It's meant he's now able to retire his father. It's meant he's received S.O.S. calls from every single person he ever knew, and "it's meant spending five thousand dollars to convert the garage MERV GRIFFIN i>i i in i mi iiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiTiimiNtiiwiiiimiiiitiiiHiniiiiii t (Continued from page 29) window mannequins, which Julann always used for fittings when making her own clothes. Well, since we both had tiny apartments at the time, and since mine was the least tiny, Julann decided to move in with me. With her roommate. It was a riot — I'll never forget it — when Julann dragged her into my place that night, Julann naturally in her wedding dress, the roommate wearing blue jeans! "I asked Julann, 'Why've you got her dressed in that outfit?' "Julann misunderstood a little bit. 'Yes, I know,' she said, 'I should have made her wear something nicer, Merv. But I'd packed everything good already — and the jeans were all I had left around.' "As for my dog — well, this is where we thought the trouble was really going to start that night. 'Poochie's his name, and he's really half-dog, half-fox. Also, up till that time, he'd been used to living with me and me alone. And he didn't like the idea of some girl moving into his territory, at all — let alone a bride. "Part of Poochie's territory happened to be my bed. You can just imagine what happened when Julann tried to get into it that night. " 'Here Poochie, here nice Poochie,' she said, standing there in her brandnew white nightgown, trying to get him off the blankets. Then she'd ask, 'Merv, why are you just lying there? Why won't you help me? And stop that laughing!' ' 'It's your problem, sweetheart,' I explained. 'He's either got to learn to into a room where Chris can indulge his camera hobby!" But he's lost one kind of tension and gained another. He's lost the nervousness which goes with insecurity and poverty — the fear of never being able to succeed and the worry about where the next dollar is coming from. And he's gained the nervousness that goes with security and comfort — the fear that someday all this will blow up and the worry about how you're going to keep what you've got. "I get more nervous these days when I do a show," he says. "You know that, every time you face a camera, there's a lot more riding on it than there ever was before. I find that whenever I'm about to do a show, my palms sweat. That never happened before." But that's what it's like to climb to the top. It takes some getting used to. For Dick Van Dyke, it was a long climb and he likes the high altitude. Still, there are those nervous moments when he remembers that what goes up can also go down . . . those moments when he admits it isn't all edelweiss at the top. — Cindy Adams "The Dick Van Dyke Show" is seen over CBS-TV, Wed., 9:30 p.m., est. He also stars in Columbia Pictures' version of his Broadway hit, "Bye Bye Birdie." obey your commands and respect you — or there'll be the devil to pay from here on in ... so command, Julann.' "She commanded. Or, at least, she tried. But he wouldn't budge. "Until finally my bride had a thought. She went into the kitchen and got some dog biscuits. She broke them in her hand, scattered them over the floor near the bed — a few here, a few there. ;' 'Now. Poochie,' she said, her voice very firm, 'come eat these. And when you're finished eating, you go over there to that corner — and you sleep there. Understand? Comprenez-vous?' "I hasten to add that Julann's plan — and her French — worked out fine; that Poochie got off the bed, and Julann got in finally. "I hasten to add, too, that Poochie — the traitor — is still with us, ignores me completely, and is now completely devoted to my wife . . . 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