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Dick Van Dyke: Editing `The Gin Game' was a bad call.
Byline: Hal Boedeker
He won enduring television fame for falling over an ottoman, but Dick Van Dyke doesn't want to make anyone trip over their furniture when he starts swearing Sunday night.
As a cantankerous card player, Van Dyke cusses up a storm with Mary Tyler Moore in PBS' "The Gin Game" but considers it "a travesty" that some stations will delete the foul language.
"The Gin Game," a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by D.L. Coburn, depicts the battles of two elderly card players in a retirement home.
As the antagonisms increase between the characters, so does the heated language that underscores their desperation and loneliness.
Van Dyke has said the editing compromises the work.
"With the kind of stuff we're seeing in movies and television today, it is so harmless by comparison," he told TV critics earlier this year.
- Dick Van Dyke: Editing `The Gin Game' was a bad call.
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