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YOU KNOW WHAT?
I SAW YOU NOT SO LONG AGO IN
THE SAVING MR. BANKS POVIE.
>> YEAH.
>> Dave: THAT WAS A GREAT,
INTERESTING, FASCINATING
FILM.
AND A NICE PIECE OF WORK ON
YOUR PART, DID YOU ENJOY IT.
YOU WERE PART OF A TEAM,
RIGHT.
INVOLVED IN THE --
>> YES, SHEA JOHN SWARTZMAN
AND I PLAYED THE SCHERRMAN
BROTHERS.
>> IN REAL LIFE TWINS.
>> NOT TWINS, A COUPLE YEARS
APART BUT THEY WERE SORT OF
AN INSEPARABLE DUO WHO WROTE
ALL THE SONGS FOR MARY
POPPINS AND A THE LOVE THE
DISNEY SONGS, SONGS IN THE
THEME PARKS, THEY WROTE IT'S
A SMALL WORLD.
AND THERE WAS REALLY
INCREDIBLE.
>> Dave: FROM WHERE DID
THESE GUYS COME IN HOW DID
THEY MERGE AND SUDDENLY BE
MAINSTAYS FOR DISNEY
PRODUCTION APPROXIMATES?
>> THEY WERE MAKING IT AS
SORT OF SONGWRITERS OF ONE
OFF HITS.
THEY WERE WRITING SONGS FOR
DISNEY SHOWS AND ANNETTE,
AND FINALLY BROUGHT UNDER AS
THE FIRST CONTRACT
SONGWRITERS.
AND ONE OF THEM, HIS NAME IS
RICHARD SHERMAN, AND HE IS
85 YEARS OLD.
AND HE WAS A WONDERFUL
PRESENCE ON SET.
AND HE, WE ALL CAME TO LOVE
HIM AND HE TOLD US
EVERYTHING ABOUT THOSE DAYS.
AND THEN OF COURSE, A COUPLE,
A FEW DAYS AGO, I WASN'T
WATCHING THIS GAME, AND I
SUDDENLY SEE RICHARD
SHERMAN'S NAME ALL OVER
ON-LINE, ALL OVER TWITTER.
AND MY FIRST THOUGHT IS,
WHEN YOU SEE AN 58-YEAR-OLD
TREND ON TWITTER IT IS NOT
ALWAYS GOOD NEWS.
>> YEAH.
>> AND I WAS, HOW DID HE SAY
ALL THESE THINGS.
BUT-- IT WAS SO IS OUT-- OUT
OF CHARACTER FOR THIS LOVELY
MAN.
(LAUGHTER)
>> AS SOON AS I SAW THE
IMAGE IT WAS VERY DIFFERENT
FROM THIS --
>> DIFFERENT GUY.
>> THIS LOVELY DIM INYU
DIFFICULT GREAT CREATURE.
SO THAT WAS A RELIEF TO SEE.
>> Dave: WELL, ANYWAY, YOU