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Hollywood Royalty

Documentarian Jeffrey Sherman’s “The Boys” features Walt Disney, Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Haley Mills, Roy Disney, Louis Prima, Pixar’s John Lassiter, Ben Stiller, John Landes to name just a few. The movie chronicles life growing up with a father and uncle who wrote all the great music from your favorite Disney movies. What’s it like to grow up in true Hollywood Royalty? To be a child on the set of “Mary Poppins” and have Walt Disney ask you for advice? To be first in line at the brand new rides at Disneyland? Today’s special guest is comedy writer and producer Jeffrey Sherman whose documentary “The Boys, The Sherman Brothers” is currently streaming right now on Netflix.“The Boys” is a riveting documentary about Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman — aka The Sherman Brothers — the Academy Award and Grammy-winning songwriters whose music you’ll recognize from Mary Poppins to The Lion King to Charlotte’s Web. We talked with him at the KPFK studios with Frank Conniff, Eddie Peppitone and Kevin Rooney.

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