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Perth Now
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Disney Legend Dick Van Dyke is 'still' working on computer animation skills at the age of 99
Dick Van Dyke is "still" a computer animator at the age of 99. The Hollywood legend is best known for his roles in classics such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang but also created the 3D-rendered effects used on Diagnosis: Murder when he starred in the medical crime drama, and his wife Arlene, 53, has confirmed that he keeps up with his hobby to this day. During a Q+A at a Vandy Camp event held at the Arlene and Dick Van Dyke Theater at Malibu High School, a fan pointed out that "not very many people know Dick Van Dyke was a computer animator" to the rest of the audience. Arlene replied: "Still is! And he has a credit for computer animation on Diagnosis: Murder!" The fan then asked Arlene - who married Dick in 2012 - what the Disney Legend had recalled to her about starring in the 1964 musical alongside Dame Julie Andrews. She said: "[Mary Poppins] such an important movie in the history of visual effects. He said it was really hot!" The former sitcom star was not able to attend the event in person due to ill health. Arlene told the audience: "I have to inform you that Dick is not up to coming to celebrate with us today. I'm sorry. "When you're 99 and a half years old, you have good days and bad days ... and unfortunately, today is not a good day for him, and he's sick that he can't be here.' The actor appeared on a livestream but Arlene added she was 'pretty confident' her husband would make the next event 'in person'. Speaking about how much Vandy Camp means to her husband, Arlene said: 'It is a celebration of your childhood, all of our childhoods, the music that's in the fabric of all of us, [and] Dick Van Dyke is a big part of that.' Calling her husband's fans 'the greatest human beings I've ever known," she added, "These Vandy Camp [events] are a wonderful opportunity to have you all in the same room and meet each other."
Los Angeles Times
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Dick Van Dyke, 99, has to skip fan event due to illness: ‘Today is not a good day for him'
Dick Van Dyke was reportedly under the weather Saturday and couldn't host his recurring Vandy Camp fan event with his wife at the couple's namesake theater at Malibu High School. Introducing herself as 'not the Van Dyke you were expecting,' Arlene Silver explained, via People, that 'when you're 99½ years old, you have good days and bad days ... and unfortunately, today is not a good day for him.' Van Dyke and makeup artist Silver, who married in 2012 when he was 86 and she was 40, usually helm the celebrations together, along with their musical group the Vantastix. Silver told the audience that she had to wear her 'big girl pants and hold the reins without Dick here as the safety net.' Fans were disappointed but undaunted as the show — described by Silver as a 'whimsical, vintage circus' — did go on. 'All of the people at the event were so kind and amazing. Many had flown in from around the world and country. I did fly in from the Bay Area,' one fan, Christy Vaca, wrote on Saturday night on Facebook. 'It turned into everyone sending amazing messages to Dick Van [Dyke] who was watching at home. He means so much to us all. 'It was really Heartbreaking.' Last time we checked in with the 'Mary Poppins' star, he was being rescued by neighbors during the Franklin fire, which started in Malibu in early December 2024 and burned for nine days. 'I'm out there laying on the ground trying to undo this fire hose, and the fire's coming over the hill,' Van Dyke said a few days after the fire started. 'What I did was exhaust myself. I forgot how old I am, and I realized I was crawling to get out.' Neighbors managed to get the beloved entertainer, wife Silver and a number of their pets into a vehicle and out of danger, he said. Cat Bobo was missing, but he turned up when they returned home the next day. Thousands of people had to evacuate. The neighbors 'carried me out,' he said, 'and came back and put out a little fire in the guesthouse and saved me.' Van Dyke's home was spared. Twenty structures were destroyed and 28 were damaged in the fire, according to Cal Fire. The Van Dykes did not evacuate a month later during the tremendously destructive Palisades fire, Silver said on social media in January. 'Keeping Dick warm and entertained has been the two things that have been my top priority, so, you know, we don't have power […] or regular electricity, so we don't have Wi-Fi,' she said, via Page Six. At the time of her Instagram live, they were cooking and charging their devices courtesy of her small camper-trailer. 'I don't know of any other person of, you know, senior citizen age that would put up with this,' she added, calling her husband a 'trouper.'
New York Post
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Dick Van Dyke, 99, sparks health concerns after dropping out of comedy event last-minute
Even legends need a sick day. Dick Van Dyke, 99, had to skip a comedy event this weekend after coming down with an unspecified illness. The 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' star was scheduled to host his musical fundraising event, Vandy Camp, on Saturday, June 28, but canceled his appearance at the last minute, according to People. Advertisement 5 Dick Van Dyke had to skip a comedy event this weekend after coming down with an unspecified illness. BACKGRID His wife, Arlene Silver, announced the news at the Arlene & Dick Van Dyke Theater at Malibu High School. She explained that Van Dyke was not having a 'good day.' 'I have to inform you that Dick is not up to coming to celebrate with us today. I'm sorry,' Silver, 53, told the audience after introducing herself as 'not the Van Dyke you're expecting.' Advertisement 'When you're 99 and a half years old, you have good days and bad days, and unfortunately, today is not a good day for him, and he's sick that he can't be here,' she added. Van Dyke ended up attening the show via livestream, and Silver said that she was 'pretty confident' he would be at the next Vandy Camp event 'in person.' 5 His wife, Arlene Silver, announced the news at the Arlene & Dick Van Dyke Theater at Malibu High School on Saturday. BACKGRID Advertisement Elsewhere during the event, Silver emphasized her husband's passion for the musical fundraiser and explained that Vandy Camp is more than 'just Dick Van Dyke.' 'It is a celebration of your childhood, all of our childhoods, the music that's in the fabric of all of us,' she said. 'Dick Van Dyke is a big part of that.' Silver also gushed about Van Dyke and their musical group, the a cappella quartet the Vantastix, for providing her with 'so much confidence to be able to stand up here right now.' 5 'When you're 99 and a half years old, you have good days and bad days, and unfortunately, today is not a good day for him,' Silver said. BACKGRID Advertisement 'I would never be able to do this maybe, like, a year ago, but I've had so many experiences pushing myself out of my comfort zone, and right now I'm out of my comfort zone,' she said. 'But I have to wear my big girl pants and hold the reins without Dick here as the safety net that he's always here with me,' Silver added. Van Dyke and Silver, a makeup artist, first met at the SAG Awards in 2006 and married in 2012. They discussed their surprising 46-year age gap back in April. 5 Van Dyke ended up attening the show via livestream. Courtesy Everett Collection The 'Dick Van Dyke Show' legend has insisted that he has no plans of slowing down even despite turning 100 later this year. 'I'm a ham. I love it. I get a jolt of energy from an audience,' he said during another Vandy Camp event in April. But living so long also has its downsides. 5 Van Dyke has insisted that he has no plans of slowing down even despite turning 100 later this year. CBS via Getty Images Advertisement 'I've lost a lot of friends,' Van Dyke lamented earlier this year while discussing the 2021 death of his late friend Ed Asner. 'He's outlived everybody,' Silver added at the time. 'That's the curse of living to almost 100.' Still, the entertainment legend isn't complaining. 'Well, life's been good to me,' Van Dyke acknowledged. 'I can't complain.'
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
More than six years after wildfires destroyed their Malibu homes, many still struggle to rebuild
Mike and DNA Moore moved to Malibu in the late 1990s when DNA was pregnant with their first child. They raised three kids in the community, and their youngest now coaches volleyball at Malibu High School, his alma mater. Over the years, DNA has worked with dozens of local families as a physical therapist treating children with developmental disabilities. Their lives are so entwined in Malibu that when the Woolsey Fire burned down their two-story, Cape Cod-style house in late 2018, the Moores had no doubt they were going to rebuild. 'Home is where the heart is,' said DNA Moore, 53. 'My broken heart is here.' More than six years after the fire, the Moores are still waiting to move into a new house. Caught in a tangle of government permitting rules, the couple has yet to secure approval to break ground. 'Every time we submit our plans, it comes back with another half a dozen line items to address,' said Mike Moore, also 53. 'When is this going to end?' Fewer than 40% of the 465 Malibu homes destroyed in the Woolsey Fire have been reconstructed, according to city statistics. Many reasons contribute. Homeowners might be unwilling because of fire-related trauma to start anew in the same place they used to live. Some might be underinsured. One fifth of affected homeowners have not submitted any rebuilding plans to the city. But for the Moores and many others, the problem has been navigating the web of regulations controlling what can get built along California's coastline. The Moores' struggles represent a nightmare scenario for property owners hoping to come back quickly after last month's Eaton and Palisades fires devoured more than 11,600 homes in Altadena, Pacific Palisades, Malibu and surrounding communities. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and L.A. county officials have promised to fast-track approvals for those who want to build their homes back the way they were before. Similar promises were made in 2018. While touring fire-ravaged Malibu with Newsom and President Trump, then-Gov. Jerry Brown touted that he'd signed an executive order "to cut red tape and speed up the permit processes." Tara Gallegos, a Newsom spokesperson, said the governor believes regulations still slowed the recovery after Woolsey and other recent fires. Newsom's pledged that this time will be different. 'While these regulations may be good policy under normal circumstances, this catastrophic firestorm destroyed thousands of homes in just a matter of days, and the Los Angeles community cannot afford any additional delay in rebuilding,' Gallegos said. Still, many details for how homeowners will receive permission to rebuild remain undetermined. In most of California, local governments have the authority to approve projects. Los Angeles County will handle rebuilding permits in Altadena because it's an unincorporated area. Along the coast, where the Palisades Fire struck, there's another layer of bureaucracy. The California Coastal Commission oversees development near the Pacific Ocean and adds extra rules designed to protect wetlands, combat sea level rise and limit wildfire risk. Written into state law is an exemption from coastal permitting requirements for property owners who seek to rebuild after natural disasters. The rule applies so long as the new house is no more than 10% larger than the previous one. Malibu has a local zoning plan approved by the Coastal Commission so the city is largely responsible for permitting, including processing the disaster exemptions. Malibu Mayor Doug Stewart said that residents who have proposed new homes within the standards for the permitting waiver have faced fewer issues getting approved. 'We're saying, 'Rebuild, rebuild, rebuild, but don't expand,'' Stewart said. 'You're asking what are the lessons learned from Woolsey? This is it.' City statistics show homeowners who have tried to use the disaster exemption have fared better, but only slightly. Of these property owners, 52% have finished. More than 130 such homeowners have their houses under construction or remain in the permitting process. Those who have wanted to build bigger homes face more arduous standards, such as approval from the city planning commission and potential appeal to the Coastal Commission. Of property owners who have taken this path, 45% are complete. George Hauptman remains tied in knots by his situation. Hauptman and his wife have lived in Malibu since the mid-1970s when they purchased land and built a house in the hills overlooking Broad Beach. The Woolsey Fire destroyed it. They pursued a disaster relief waiver and have now fully rebuilt their home down to bolting in the numbers in their address above the exterior entryway. Yet the city has not issued a certificate of occupancy for the Hauptmans to move in. New fire codes required them to provide more water storage at this house than the previous one. So they bought a bigger water tank, and put it where it best fit. But the city told him the spot straddled the property line with his neighbor. After Hauptman hired a surveyor to prove the tank was on his land, the city said its location still violated setback restrictions. Hauptman refuses to apply for a potentially costly and time-consuming zoning waiver for the tank. He and the city are at a stalemate. The process, Hauptman said, has made him feel like 'an eddy in a river.' 'You just circle around and circle around and circle around,' said Hauptman, 77. 'We're older people and these things just drive you crazy.' Without a permit for their fully rebuilt home, the Hauptmans have been living in a nearby studio apartment and staying at their new house 'a little more often than we should.' Read more: Half their community burned in the Woolsey fire. Recovery is wreaking its own misery The Moores' property sits on a hillside across Pacific Coast Highway from Point Dume. To meet current fire codes, they've been told they need to widen their driveway. Doing so would expand their home's footprint into a designated environmentally sensitive area, which requires extra scrutiny under coastal regulations. They also want to install a pool next to their house that could serve as a source of extra water in case of another fire. Like the driveway, that idea has stalled in permitting. The couple has pleaded their case over emails with city officials. In the fall, interim Planning Director Maureen Tamuri apologized for what they were going through. She cited a staffing shortage and coastal regulations for tying the city's hands. 'Sorry it has been such a difficult process for you,' Tamuri wrote to the Moores. 'I have worked for 36 years now in govt. and I have never seen a City with these complexities, and with so little authority vested in the Director because of the Coastal Plan. It's a real outlier.' Stewart said homeowners like the Moores and Hauptmans have faced permitting issues because they went beyond a simple rebuild of their home. 'It's not the same house,' Stewart said. 'You've got a swimming pool going in. As you look at all the exceptions, it starts to add up and you go, 'It's not a rebuild.'' Property owners and developers have long bashed the coastal regulations as onerous with or without natural disasters. When meeting with local leaders in Los Angeles after the fires, President Trump said the Coastal Commission was considered the hardest agency in the country to secure permits. 'I'm not going to let them get away with their antics,' Trump said. The president said that he would 'override' the commission for rebuilding efforts, but has not provided any further details. Read more: Newsom suspends landmark environmental laws to ease rebuilding in wildfire zones Before Trump's statement, Newsom issued an executive order on easing coastal regulations. The governor's order largely restated the natural disaster exemption already in the law. The Coastal Commission published information for rebuilding homeowners that said like-for-like disaster rebuilds were free from coastal permitting rules because of the existing law and the governor's order. Newsom responded by calling the commission's guidance 'legally erroneous' and issued another executive order. This one said that property owners didn't need an exemption to rebuild their home as it was before, but rather that the coastal rules didn't apply at all. The commission removed its guidance from its website. "We have a limited role clearly," said Coastal Commission Executive Director Kate Huckelbridge at an agency meeting last week. How all this is going to work remains unclear. Some government entity will still need to decide if a homeowner's rebuilding blueprints fit within the waiver provisions, let alone how to handle related issues, such as the enhanced fire codes ensnaring the permits of the Hauptmans and Moores. Complicating the situation is that, unlike Malibu, the city of Los Angeles does not have a local zoning plan approved by the commission. That means, under normal circumstances, the city's permitting decisions in Pacific Palisades could be appealed to the agency. The Palisades Fire has further delayed the Moores' permits. In the aftermath of the blaze, Malibu officials canceled a city biologist's planned visit to assess the plants on the site. The couple said they're exhausted from years of bouncing between living in short-term rentals and Airstream trailers on their land. "We've been waiting so long," DNA Moore said. "I want my house. It's wrong I still don't have it." Times staff writer Ben Poston contributed to this report. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
12-02-2025
- General
- Los Angeles Times
More than six years after wildfires destroyed their Malibu homes, many still struggle to rebuild
Mike and DNA Moore moved to Malibu in the late 1990s when DNA was pregnant with their first child. They raised three kids in the community, and their youngest now coaches volleyball at Malibu High School, his alma mater. Over the years, DNA has worked with dozens of local families as a physical therapist treating children with developmental disabilities. Their lives are so entwined in Malibu that when the Woolsey Fire burned down their two-story, Cape Cod-style house in late 2018, the Moores had no doubt they were going to rebuild. 'Home is where the heart is,' said DNA Moore, 53. 'My broken heart is here.' More than six years after the fire, the Moores are still waiting to move into a new house. Caught in a tangle of government permitting rules, the couple has yet to secure approval to break ground. 'Every time we submit our plans, it comes back with another half a dozen line items to address,' said Mike Moore, also 53. 'When is this going to end?' Fewer than 40% of the 465 Malibu homes destroyed in the Woolsey Fire have been reconstructed, according to city statistics. Many reasons contribute. Homeowners might be unwilling because of fire-related trauma to start anew in the same place they used to live. Some might be underinsured. One fifth of affected homeowners have not submitted any rebuilding plans to the city. But for the Moores and many others, the problem has been navigating the web of regulations controlling what can get built along California's coastline. The Moores' struggles represent a nightmare scenario for property owners hoping to come back quickly after last month's Eaton and Palisades fires devoured more than 11,600 homes in Altadena, Pacific Palisades, Malibu and surrounding communities. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and L.A. county officials have promised to fast-track approvals for those who want to build their homes back the way they were before. Similar promises were made in 2018. While touring fire-ravaged Malibu with Newsom and President Trump, then-Gov. Jerry Brown touted that he'd signed an executive order 'to cut red tape and speed up the permit processes.' Tara Gallegos, a Newsom spokesperson, said the governor believes regulations still slowed the recovery after Woolsey and other recent fires. Newsom's pledged that this time will be different. 'While these regulations may be good policy under normal circumstances, this catastrophic firestorm destroyed thousands of homes in just a matter of days, and the Los Angeles community cannot afford any additional delay in rebuilding,' Gallegos said. Still, many details for how homeowners will receive permission to rebuild remain undetermined. In most of California, local governments have the authority to approve projects. Los Angeles County will handle rebuilding permits in Altadena because it's an unincorporated area. Along the coast, where the Palisades Fire struck, there's another layer of bureaucracy. The California Coastal Commission oversees development near the Pacific Ocean and adds extra rules designed to protect wetlands, combat sea level rise and limit wildfire risk. Written into state law is an exemption from coastal permitting requirements for property owners who seek to rebuild after natural disasters. The rule applies so long as the new house is no more than 10% larger than the previous one. Malibu has a local zoning plan approved by the Coastal Commission so the city is largely responsible for permitting, including processing the disaster exemptions. Malibu Mayor Doug Stewart said that residents who have proposed new homes within the standards for the permitting waiver have faced fewer issues getting approved. 'We're saying, 'Rebuild, rebuild, rebuild, but don't expand,'' Stewart said. 'You're asking what are the lessons learned from Woolsey? This is it.' City statistics show homeowners who have tried to use the disaster exemption have fared better, but only slightly. Of these property owners, 52% have finished. More than 130 such homeowners have their houses under construction or remain in the permitting process. Those who have wanted to build bigger homes face more arduous standards, such as approval from the city planning commission and potential appeal to the Coastal Commission. Of property owners who have taken this path, 45% are complete. George Hauptman remains tied in knots by his situation. Hauptman and his wife have lived in Malibu since the mid-1970s when they purchased land and built a house in the hills overlooking Broad Beach. The Woolsey Fire destroyed it. They pursued a disaster relief waiver and have now fully rebuilt their home down to bolting in the numbers in their address above the exterior entryway. Yet the city has not issued a certificate of occupancy for the Hauptmans to move in. New fire codes required them to provide more water storage at this house than the previous one. So they bought a bigger water tank, and put it where it best fit. But the city told him the spot straddled the property line with his neighbor. After Hauptman hired a surveyor to prove the tank was on his land, the city said its location still violated setback restrictions. Hauptman refuses to apply for a potentially costly and time-consuming zoning waiver for the tank. He and the city are at a stalemate. The process, Hauptman said, has made him feel like 'an eddy in a river.' 'You just circle around and circle around and circle around,' said Hauptman, 77. 'We're older people and these things just drive you crazy.' Without a permit for their fully rebuilt home, the Hauptmans have been living in a nearby studio apartment and staying at their new house 'a little more often than we should.' The Moores' property sits on a hillside across Pacific Coast Highway from Point Dume. To meet current fire codes, they've been told they need to widen their driveway. Doing so would expand their home's footprint into a designated environmentally sensitive area, which requires extra scrutiny under coastal regulations. They also want to install a pool next to their house that could serve as a source of extra water in case of another fire. Like the driveway, that idea has stalled in permitting. The couple has pleaded their case over emails with city officials. In the fall, interim Planning Director Maureen Tamuri apologized for what they were going through. She cited a staffing shortage and coastal regulations for tying the city's hands. 'Sorry it has been such a difficult process for you,' Tamuri wrote to the Moores. 'I have worked for 36 years now in govt. and I have never seen a City with these complexities, and with so little authority vested in the Director because of the Coastal Plan. It's a real outlier.' Stewart said homeowners like the Moores and Hauptmans have faced permitting issues because they went beyond a simple rebuild of their home. 'It's not the same house,' Stewart said. 'You've got a swimming pool going in. As you look at all the exceptions, it starts to add up and you go, 'It's not a rebuild.'' Property owners and developers have long bashed the coastal regulations as onerous with or without natural disasters. When meeting with local leaders in Los Angeles after the fires, President Trump said the Coastal Commission was considered the hardest agency in the country to secure permits. 'I'm not going to let them get away with their antics,' Trump said. The president said that he would 'override' the commission for rebuilding efforts, but has not provided any further details. Before Trump's statement, Newsom issued an executive order on easing coastal regulations. The governor's order largely restated the natural disaster exemption already in the law. The Coastal Commission published information for rebuilding homeowners that said like-for-like disaster rebuilds were free from coastal permitting rules because of the existing law and the governor's order. Newsom responded by calling the commission's guidance 'legally erroneous' and issued another executive order. This one said that property owners didn't need an exemption to rebuild their home as it was before, but rather that the coastal rules didn't apply at all. The commission removed its guidance from its website. 'We have a limited role clearly,' said Coastal Commission Executive Director Kate Huckelbridge at an agency meeting last week. How all this is going to work remains unclear. Some government entity will still need to decide if a homeowner's rebuilding blueprints fit within the waiver provisions, let alone how to handle related issues, such as the enhanced fire codes ensnaring the permits of the Hauptmans and Moores. Complicating the situation is that, unlike Malibu, the city of Los Angeles does not have a local zoning plan approved by the commission. That means, under normal circumstances, the city's permitting decisions in Pacific Palisades could be appealed to the agency. The Palisades Fire has further delayed the Moores' permits. In the aftermath of the blaze, Malibu officials canceled a city biologist's planned visit to assess the plants on the site. The couple said they're exhausted from years of bouncing between living in short-term rentals and Airstream trailers on their land. 'We've been waiting so long,' DNA Moore said. 'I want my house. It's wrong I still don't have it.' Times staff writer Ben Poston contributed to this report.
