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...DICK VAN DYKE SHOW...
...that sandbox, back in 1966, that he first wrote Surfs Up in collaboration with Van Dyke Parks (Song Cycle). Though Surf's Up was programmed by Leonard Bernstein on a TV special, Brian soured on the song. It was never commercially recorded, and, so the story went, Brian suppressed all taped copies. Last spring, after a four-year interval, a tape turned up in the Beach Boys' vault. Brian liked it again. "I have to admit, it's not bad," he said. And he rerecorded it for the new album...
...composed of Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision. A tobacco tycoon (the late Edward Everett Horton) offers $25 million to any American city whose inhabitants can quit smoking for 30 days, on the plausible theory that it cannot be done. But he reckons without the Rev. Clayton Brooks (Dick Van Dyke). Led by the uptight, upright preacher, Eagle Rock, Iowa, turns abolitionist. In the process, it writhes with collective withdrawal symptoms familiar to anyone who has tried to kick the habit. Such civil strife is grossly overdone, and the refinement of Lear's touch is perhaps best exhibited when...
...situation comedy. ABC has landed Shirley MacLaine for a sitcom in which she is a roving photojournalist, Tony Curtis as a jet-set adventurer in an action series and Anthony Quinn as a Mexican-American mayor. CBS signed Glenn Ford for a western and brought back Dick Van Dyke in another sitcom...
Bandy also stands forlornly on the philosophical battlefield. Mayor Dyke, a Republican law-and-order man whose police are in a standstill cease-fire with Miffland, bemoans the permissiveness of the courts and the behavior of the Mifflanders, but he also expresses concern about the rights of Bandy's antagonists. His caution about a police move that might provoke a new riot is clearly justified by Miffland's history of police-student confrontations. Still, he would be neither human nor political if he did not have a smarting memory of Bandy's 1969 denunciation...