Article: DICK VAN DYKE RATES A WALK OF FAME STAR.(Life & Leisure)

Byline: STEVE BORNFELD Television/radio writer

The phone rings - my heart jumps.

Dick Van Dyke is calling.

Not just any garden variety actor/ celebrity, but ... The Big DVD.

The Rob Petrie of my youth. The extra-affable chap who tripped over the ottoman to the sounds of that jaunty tune just so we could laugh every week.

The man who danced on rooftops in "Mary Poppins," for heaven's sake.

Will he be as delightful as one would imagine, or ...

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