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Dick Van Dyke, unquestionably among the greats of the golden-age of television, is cherished and respected by people around the world for his real skill, his glowing grin, his impeccable comic timing, his absurd tricks, and his memorable display functions.             His trailblazing television system, The Dick Van Dyke Show (made by Carl Reiner, who has written the foreword for this memoir), was among the most widely used sitcoms of the 1960s and launched another important television celebrity, Mary Tyler Moore. But Dick Van Dyke was also an extremely interesting superstar whose movies, including Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang, have now been found with a new-generation of followers and are as cherished today as they were when they first seemed. Who doesn’t understand the term "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?"             A colourful, caring, highly detailed consider the years of the multilayered life, My Blessed Life In and Out-Of Show-Business, may enthrall every era of audience, from baby-boomers who remember when Rob Petrie became a family name, to any or all these still captivated by Bert’s “Chim Chim Cher-ee.” This can be a vibrant, heartwarming memoir of the artist who still thinks of herself as being a “simple track-and-dance man,” but who is, in every sense of the term, a vintage singer.