Have you read Julie Andrews' latest book HOME WORK?

Reading it now.

Blake Edwards was crazy!

Can you explain more what you mean for those who didn't read it, OP? Was it all too fast, too soon for Dame Julie? Was she mainlining heroin with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin?

I will preview this memoir on my iPhone. I only just learned Andrews had an operation, a routine surgery to remove polyps from her vocal cords that went badly and ruined her singing voice.

Peter Sellers takes a bit of a beating in this book. He was known to be difficult but according to Julie he was s nightmare to work with.

Julie was like a mother to husband Blake Edwards if what she writes is true. Messy. Hypochondriac, self-absorbed, terrified of death, etc. Exhausting.

R3 This book does not go quite that far. The time that this book covers is from roughly early 60s (but after the first book) to the end of the 80s.

If Julie had worked with a ghost writer rather than her barnicle daughter one suspects this book would reveal far more.

For instance, she writes that she learned of William Holden's death while working in Europe. Then she said Holden died from a fall. No mention that he was drunk and that he had been battling alcoholism for decades.

This was the perfect opportunity to tell us more about Holden. But nothing except that he was a dear friend.

Isn't Julie a lez?

Does that mean she bearded for Blake?

Apple is stingy with the preview. I listened to a bit and Andrews has an interesting early life story. She is a dame but her grandparents were a chambermaid and a coalminer. Her dad was a schoolteacher and mom was a pianist with ambitions beyond small town life. Mom ran off with a concert singer taking her daughter, Julie with her. Andrews is her stepfathers name.

The audiobook is read beautifully by Julie Andrews. I will purchase as it is only 20 dollars.

This sounds like a good read!

Perhaps in her next book she'll write about the Gstaad set. There's a mountain of potential there, but she seems reluctant to spill.

This book came out in 2019 and we're discussing it now?

She seems to imply at one point that Blake Edward's is gay, or at least spending to much time with one of his male assistants.

What would you like to discuss? Shall we discuss Golden Girls. Again. Prince Harry. Again?

Did you read this book given that it has been published for years?

R14 >

Why don't we discuss James Alexis Carrington Colby Comey sashaying in front of news cameras to tell us Hillary Clinton sent some email.

Again.

There was no evidence of wrong doing or malfeasance on Clinton part but we really need to know, like, she like sent like emails! .

[quote] she seems reluctant to spill.

Der.

The previous volume, detailing her childhood and young adult years, was excellent, but the second book was lazy and superficial.

Julie wrote that George Segal walked away from “10” at the last minute, resulting in Blake hiring Dudley, but she claimed she had no idea why George left the project.

What "Gstaad set"? Details please!! Who are these people!

Julie is such a phony. Her and Blake are/were both gay, it was so well known Ian McKellen outed them in an interview. Be private, whatever, but don’t write “memoirs” full of bullshit closeting yourself.

The name-dropping about fellow actors, famous venues, and conductors/repertoire/exhibitions, etc becomes EXTREMELY tedious very quickly in any artist's memoir. Just get to the DIRT!!!!

I enjoyed listening to “Homework”. Why must every Hollywood memoir feed into the need for bad gossip. She probably knows more than she is saying, but her image and nature is to be gracious and diplomatic it. She is very honest about here own families problems, how she financially supported her family a great deal of her adult life, and her marriage. Everything thing else is somebody else’s business.

For such a famous person she really didn’t make that many good movies, obviously hitting it out of the park her first few times at bat. She did better work on TV, and obviously Broadway.

Why on earth would elaboration on William Holden's sad, lonely death be required in Dame Andrew's memoir.

R7 Like DL would know.

R21 What did Ian McKellen say?

It's a bad book. She comes off as whiny and ungrateful for every opportunity she had once she was a mega star. It's a slog. When she gets to the tv series, you'd think she was hung on the cross. She was the daughter of drunks, so the unhappiness makes sense, but she doesn't do herself any favors with this. And its really weird all the inter-continental flying around with all the kids and weirdo Blake and blah, blah, blah. Would have been better unwritten.

Blake Edwards had a brief scene with the beautiful Guy Madison in the 1946 film "'Till The End of Time," playing Guy's boss.

Damn, when Blake was young, he was one hot piece of ass!

It was exhausting. She and Blake seemed never to lose an opportunity to complicate their lives. Swiss residency requirements! Lets adopt twins from Vietnam! Let's commit to doing a weekly variety show!

I didn't know they were tax exiles - I thought they lived in L.A.

Remember "10" in which Julie was allowed to be a bit "sexy"?

That was one BAD movie and a huge hit. I LOATHED Dudley Moore.

They uncovered some old comedy sketches he did with Peter Cook that was so nasty and homophobic and unfunny. Put it this way, I was NOT surprised.

Julie comes off as a nice person, and many folks in the business have confirmed this. But she does go into exhausting detail about all her travel between New York and LA and London and Gstaad, Switzerland. For someone who had all these wonderful opportunities once she became a star, and especially with a problematic mom and stepfather, she didn't make things easier on herself or her children by shuttling around so much. Daughter Emma was always coming and going between her and ex-Tony Walton, and Julie complicated things by so holding on to her Gstaad residence and for tax reasons having to be in and out of the U.S a certain amount of time. It just made everyone's life so much more unstable.

She did get into in her first book that while she was close to her father "Dad", a teacher, when her mom, a pianist, left him, she married a tenor Ted Andrews "Pop" and they toured together professionally. Julie was sent to live with her mother and Pop. Her Mom and Ted/Pop discovered and started to encourage and train Julie's voice early on and later got Julie into the act. Julie's Mom once had her sing at some party and pointed out some man who the mother later told her was Julie's real father, whom the Mother had once had a fling with. Julie found out from her aunt years later that Dad, who Julie thought was her real father, knew about the fling and the pregnancy, but raised Julie as his own. A real soap opera from the beginning, then lots of alcoholism, the horrors of the Blitz and WWII, and the instability of the theater thrown in.

She does get into the hassles of filming the tv series and so on, but she does admit, as she concluded a couple of live performances that I saw her do, that she was "lucky". I think she may have been a little catty by calling Glynis Johns a character actress, a pretty one, since Johns, her "Mary Poppins" co-star, was glamourous enough to star as Desiree later in the original "A Little Night Music", which just celebrated 50 years since its original performance on Broadway the other day. Plus Glynis is still with us!

Sir Ian outed Blake and Julie at a party in London as well. A British actor was flying out to LA to work with Blake IIRC and Sir Ian spilled to him then. I wonder if anyone here recalls that actor's name? Everybody in the biz knew about these two.

The Vietnamese baby adoption fracas with Julie also taking delivery of Mia Farrow's imported baby sounds pure Hollywood insanity. And I believe every word of it.

Julie writes that Blake's film That's Life reflects true events in their lives together and that it was shot in their home in Malibu.

Blake's character is beyond insufferable.

The book is too polite.

She could have told us lovely and funny stories about Holden. And had she been honest about his death she could have touched upon addiction in Hollywood which was rampant then.

Also she writes about Peter Sellers staying out partying til 5AM (with an actress in the film) during filming of the Pink Panther.which drove Blake mad. That actress was Capucine. Why did she not even mention her name? She knew Capucine very well. She could have shared some lovely stories about her.

R22 how do you get to the dirt WITHOUT name dropping?

One can share dirt without sounding like a cunt by balancing out the portrayal of others.

Julie must have loathed Peter Sellers because she does go after him.

“She could have shared some lovely stories about her.“

Like her suicide?

What did she say about the 70s and the 80s?

R33 So it's just a rumor? I thought he outed them in an interview or something like that. Nevermind then.

Julie Andrews: I've 'Just Always' Been An LGBTQ Ally

No, not a rumor. The other actor provided the info in an interview. We talked about it here years ago but I don't recall the actor's name.

[quote]Perhaps in her next book she'll write about...

She's almost 88 YEARS OLD. Ain't gonna be no next book!

[quote]She comes off as whiny and ungrateful for every opportunity she had once she was a mega star.

I expect that from the upcoming Streisand autobiography!

NYT - "But if “Home” was a bracing tonic, Andrews’s follow-up, “Home Work” — written with one of her daughters — — is a treacle tart.

Some of the early chapters, like the one on filming “The Sound of Music,” are interesting, if cloying, but after that the book dissolves into a rambling blur as Andrews juggles husbands and children with starring roles and concert tours. She never seems to stay in any one city for more than a few days (the words “plane,” “trip,” “flight” and “tour” appear 164 times). There are a few personal nuggets lodged in some of the dreary details of endless travel. Andrews is blunt about the problems she faced with her second husband, the director Blake Edwards, who struggled with depression and an on-and-off dependence on prescription pain medication. He also “had a soft spot” for what Andrews called “‘willow ladies’ — lonely, fragile and usually very pretty young women, who seemed to lack a central core. I always tried to wait it out.”

But moments of introspection can’t make up for pages of flat recitation. Describing a movie shoot, Andrews writes: “‘That’s Life!’ was a joy to make. … To a person, the cast and crew were warm, loyal and tireless.”

Regrettably, the final page sets us up for a third volume: “I would later return to Hollywood … but for now, Broadway was beckoning once again.”

R47, Emma is her only biological daughter.

Capucine was outed by Boze Hadleigh.

R44 Yeah, that's called a rumor. Ian McKellen didn't say it in an interview. Some actor said that Ian supposedly told him.

[quote]She's almost 88 YEARS OLD. Ain't gonna be no next book!

Americans are so funny about old age. I've seen people on here say about some actress "They should give her her own show!" - she's EIGHTY FOUR!

R29 Links please.

That film is not on Blake's IMDB actor credits.

Oh found it.

This book is The Hollywood Years. It's clear she intends to produce a 3rd book - a trilogy.

Hard upbringing including living through the blitz, she kept her good manners and a smile on her face. This is hard to do, I couldn't do it.

[quote]It's clear she intends to produce a 3rd book - a trilogy.

Maybe she could take time out with Yoko at her farm upstate and write it.

I can't keep track of her movements in this book. She's in London, the bio daughter is in NY, Blake is scouting in France, the Viet kids are in LA. Nannies are changed out regularly. Julie flies to LA to meet about a potential project then flies to NY, then to London then Gstaad. The reader requires a diagram.

Some people like to keep on the move.

Like Angela Lansbury and Carol Burnett, Julie was very different in her personal life than the characters she portrayed onscreen. All 3 women were questionable mothers who raised problem children.

[quote]All 3 women were questionable mothers who raised problem children.

All LIES!

Julie writes she was good friends with Audrey Hepburn. (They both had homes in Gstaad, but Julie doesn't reveal even this)

That's it. Nothing more about Hepburn. Motherfucker, tell us some Audrey Hepburn stories.

R57, Yoko owns multiple units in the Dakota.

[quote]Motherfucker, tell us some Audrey Hepburn stories.

She doesn't want to bitch about her fellow actors. Get over it!

[quote][R57], Yoko owns multiple units in the Dakota.

You think Julie should go there to write Part 3?

The movie '10' is one of my all-time favorites.

Fuck Yoko right in the arse. This is my thread.

R64. Eat shit while reading Shelley Winters' memoir.

[quote] Julie Andrews: I've 'Just Always' Been An LGBTQ Ally

At least I never MARRIED one! And she married TWO!

It's Julie's daughter who worked with her on this book who has most certainly reigned her in. Old Hollywood stars tend to get looser lips as they age. One sees this in taped interviews with decrepit showbiz folks.

A good ghost writer provided by the publisher would have pulled it all out of Julie.

^^^ reined

Willow ladies sounds like a delicate mid 20th century British euphemism.

I believe this is the first time I've read a memoir and liked the subject less afterwards.

Thanks for your input, Glynis.

[quote] I think she may have been a little catty by calling Glynis Johns a character actress,

I bet this explanatory note was added in by the ignorant daughter on behalf of the ignorant general public.

I think living in La La Land creates plastic, self-obsessed people who contemplate their navels while ignoring the past and the rest of the planet.

Ignorant daughter will be writing "Julie Memoirs" when the real Julie is in an old age coma.

I don't enjoy Julie Andrews films excluding Victor Victoria but I respect her hustle and the talent it took to create the careers she had.

[quote] respect her hustle

It took more than merely Julie's hustle to rake in 286.2 million.

TSOM was a happy coincidence and unfortunately it has been all downhill since then

Julz has been licking my pussy for 60 years.

Desiree is a character role, r32...albeit a glamorous one.

Nothing about the orgies that she and Blake hosted in LA? The ones where that creepy looking mature dancer (the one who makes the stupid face when Julie shows her boobs in the boobies movie) was particularly useful?

[quote]All 3 women were questionable mothers who raised problem children.

Because stay at home moms *never* have children with drug issues, r60?

The only worse autobiography was Barbra Cook's. She's even more ungrateful and bizarre.

It's a memoir, r83, and I don't remember the book that way.

What's wrong with autobiographies today? Don't people have editors? The Sally Field autobiography was a mess. As was Debbie Harry's.

Christopher Plummer's was a mess

Memoir, auto-biography, whatever. Cook's book is painful to read and I've encouraged hundreds not to if you they admired her at all.

Blake had a soft spot for WOMEN?

Well, r87, aren't you just the Negative Nancy.

Julie writes that there were always financial issues while married to Blake. OK, but then why not dump some of the properties, the yacht, the staff, etc.? It's not an easy sell.

R87, To me, it was only “painful” when she discussed her alcoholism that led her to shoplifting.

As far as her career, the book was well documented.

Her Mary Martin anecdote was classic.

R85, Brooke Shields’ autobiography was all over the place.

Diahann Carroll’s was extremely bitter, especially when writing of her affair with Sidney Poitier and her marriage to Vic Damone.

[quote]Why on earth would elaboration on William Holden's sad, lonely death be required in Dame Andrew's memoir.

Because it would be so much fun to hear her describe it in gory detail on the audiobook.

Julie wasn’t close to William Holden.

They made one movie together, “S.O.B.”.

Yeah same with Loretta Swit but she had some insightful comments about him.

Holden was in S.O.B. because he was a close friend.

Holden also had the Swiss connection with Julie and Blake.

Julie doesn't have to tell everything. eg I'm sure she knows exactly why George Segal withdrew from 10.

Blake Edwards, the film's producer and director sued Segal and won $270,000. And yet Julie doesn't know why?!

[Quote]He pulled out of the film 10 (1979) four days before shooting was due to begin when he realised that he wasn't right for the role.

^^ From Wiki, but certainly this was not the real reason for such a gross contractual violation. The story must have been messy.

I read too that Segal objected to how Blake kept increasing the size of his wife's part in the script.

R101, But her role in the film was minimal.

[quote] Julie doesn't have to tell everything. eg I'm sure she knows exactly why George Segal withdrew from 10.

So we have to wait until Dame Julie ascends into heaven in 20 years before we get the lowdown.

R100, Was it her breath?

R103, You really think Julie will live to 107?

Who will die first, Julie or Carol?

IMBD recounts that Segal walked off the set of 10 after filming had already started. It also says that later when 10 was released Segal was asked it he had seen it and he flipped the journalist the finger.

R107 didn’t he have major drug problems at the time? Then again, so many people did, and still made movies.

Wait, George Segal had drug problems? Like alcohol or what?

George Segal had a drug/alcohol problem? NO.

What was Barbara Cook's anecdote about Mary Martin?

Barbara forgot the name of Martin’s gay husband when she brought him to her dressing room after a performance.

Barbara made the mistake of saying this to them and Mary Martin never spoke to her again.

Yet, they both performed years later in a tribute to Robert Preston on the Tony Awards, which must have made rehearsals awkward.

Why would Mary be so sensitive about Barbara not remembering her drunken gay husband's name? Weird.

[Quote]Barbara made the mistake of saying this to them and Mary Martin never spoke to her again.

Please explain this jibberish.

[quote] Blake Edwards had a brief scene with the beautiful Guy Madison in the 1946 film "'Till The End of Time," playing Guy's boss.

Why didn't you post a pic? I found this, but you can't see Blake's full face.

julie writes that most of Blake's films which he wrote and directed are about him. In those films most of the primary male characters are alcoholic and pill poppers. There's always the on-call doctor friend as well like Robert Preston in SOB.

I'm reminded of The Days of Wine and Roses staring Jack Lemon and Lee Remick, directed by Blake. All three were alcoholic at the time. All three went into recovery after the film wrapped. That must have been quite the set.

R113, It makes perfect sense to the rest of us.

Perhaps it was dominating drunk gay husband RICHARD Halliday who convinced Mary that Barbara Cook's not remembering his name a slight that couldn't be forgiven.

What did JA have to say about James Garner?

Young or old, I think Blake Edwards was a FUG.

R110 I read that George Segal admitted to having a drug problem at one time but I can't find a link.

R114 Thanks for posting. I didn't post that picture because you can't really see Edwards' face. You do get a pretty good look at his hunky body, though.

I've looked for clips of that particular scene on YouTube, but can't find anything. Otherwise, I'd post them.

A little dab'll do ya...

[Quote]What did JA have to say about James Garner?

That he was lovely. So verry verry lovely and a dear friend.. (ie not a bloody thing)

She makes Greer Garson or Norma Shearer seem like hoochies.

Her one great movie moment is the opening of SOM.

^^ and flashing her pink nips.

In Capua's biography of William Holden he wrote about Blake screening the Days of Wine and Roses for a few friends in Europe before its release.

Holden was there. He turned to Capucine after the viewing and asked "Was I that bad?" to which she replied " Worse!" She later dumped him after he gave her Hepatitis B.

R112 Cause maybe he was her real husband, and not a gay one, like DL thinks about every other person

R122 He was a hottie. I wonder if he and Guy Madison got it on together.

I’m listening to it now. She spends more time talking about a grandfather clock than she does about Thoroughly Modern Millie.

It’s not very fun. But I’m still listening.

Her first memoir was very good. This is a disappointment. Hardly any good dirt.

Every entertainer should be forced to read Esther Williams autobiography before they write their own. It was perfect. ALL the dirt! Funny, bitchy and smart.

If you’re not going to do the same, why bother writing one?

The best Hollywood autobiography I ever read was Julia Phillips' "You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again."

Full of bitchy, tawdry gossip about all the stars.

THAT'S what a celebrity tell-all should be like.

It's Dame Julie Andrews *not* Barbara Payton or Liz friggin' Renay.

[quote] She doesn't want to bitch about her fellow actors.

Fuck her then. Just shit or get off the pot.

I just realized that after decades of listening to the opening song from “Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall,” in which they sing about their personality differences, it’s about a butch and a femme lesbian.

Carol also sang it with Maggie Smith, r134.

R135 An excellent way to dispel any suspicions that it was two lesbians singing to each other when she sang it with Julie in 1963!

Everybody says that about James Garner, R123. The only bad thing you could say about him if you consider it bad - that he was a left wing liberal. Not gay, people, please,

[quote] Cause maybe he was her real husband, and not a gay one, like DL thinks about every other person

R127, ignoramus, yes? That both Mary Martin and husband Richard Halliday were gay is common knowledge, not "made up" at the Datalounge.

R138 Sure thing. If you say so.

R139 = Triggered frau. Always so much fun on a gay gossip site.

In Blake's film That's Life Julie's throat surgery is addressed. Blake was of zero support to her while Julie waited for the pathology report. She's tough as nails, this dame.

Dame Andrews is not a seething,raging drug addict as Julia Phillips was.

I enjoyed the Phillips memoir but there is no comparison between the two.

The best Hollywood memoir I have read remains, Marlene by Maria Riva.

^ Agree about Maria Riva. How much time does she have left?

Maria is 98.

R113 Lee Remick was an alchie?

That's Life was 1986, r141. The surgery that ruined her voice was in 1997.

Never heard the Lee Remick as an alcoholic. She died too young, but she still looked good in public about a year or so before she died.

According to IMDB yes, Remick was a member of AA.

R148 her sole Oscar nomination according to that , too. A shame. I don’t even think she ever got an Emmy for her many great TV movies.

She got 6 Emmy nominations and won 2 Golden Globes.

It's not "Dame Andrews"; she would be properly addressed as "Dame Julie."

R145, Lee Remick was also one of JFK’s conquests.

^

Irish = Irish

We’ve bumped pussies for decades.

R150 right, so zero Emmy wins. R152 wow did not know that either.

[quote] [R150] right, so zero Emmy wins.

Julie Andrews has two Emmy wins. She won an Emmy in 1973 for Outstanding Variety Musical Series for "the Julie Andrews Hour," and another one in 2005 for Outstanding Nonfiction Series for "Broadway: The American Musical."

R156 = Julie before nose job

I don’t know why she stayed with that asshole Edwards unless she led a separate life.

PhillyWhore, here's an example of the Gstaad scene. It was fantastic because the village is very small so one saw huge stars shopping at the grocery store and during other common activities. It was a special moment in time.

Blake was never interested in my sweet honeypot, and I certainly couldn’t abide his tallywhacker.

She was the daughter of severe alcoholics whom she ending up supporting as a little girl. We can't expect "normal" from her.

She was molested by her step father as well.

She seemed to say that she fought him off -- on at least two occasions he tried to get into bed with her.

School of Hard Knocks

If I was promised love scenes with Bo Derek and got JA instead I would walk too.

Did the real reason George Segal walked off "10" ever come to light? Wasn't he a last minute replacement himself in Bette Midler's film "For the Boys"? I forget who he replaced in that film.

Stop trying to turn this thread to George Segal. No one cares.

He didn’t replace anyone because James Caan was in that movie.

Segal played a supporting role.

James wishes George had replaced him because he hated Bette.

She had such a beautiful singing voice. Her enunciation is/was perfect.

Indeed, r170...

I wonder if Julie can still whistle? She whistled the dub of that bird in "Spoonful of Sugar" in "Mary Poppins". If Gracie Allen could do a 1-finger symphony, maybe there's hope for Julie to do something again without having to sing.

[quote]I wonder if Julie can still whistle? She whistled the dub of that bird in "Spoonful of Sugar" in "Mary Poppins."

Did she do her own whistling in "I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight" in "Camelot"?

She did in "What Do the Simple Folk Do?"

Thanks, R174.

R169 they both had diva reps. But at least Bette wasn’t a MAGAT and is still living.

Why you're better at whistling than singing

Oh, why not?

That number is so stupid. She could never had sung it being thrown around like that.

But...but...

Yes, R179. That number is so stupid.

The musical arrangements for that movie was so crass. The movie was a tasteless failure.

I'm assuming Lawrence's second husband placed a stranglehold on the plotting and representation in that 20th Century-Mess. And I bet Beatrice Lillie was relieved she refused permission to be impersonated in it..

Is she rocking back and forth on a big clitoris? It's so pink and nubby.

And Julie was very upset and had bad doubts about being able to do that staging and choreography of that number with Michael Kidd, who later became a good friend, having his assistant demonstrate that it could be done. But yeah for film, not in a real production 8x a week like that.

had her doubts, that is -- but she felt bad indeed about it, from her book, until she actually was able to do it.

Gertie did more with less.

It's a bit surprising Julie wrote about getting on a flight at Heathrow for LA after calling the hospital to learn her mother (in the UK) was dying and only had a few hours to live. That's cold, gurl.

She would make up her mind, r186.

Years ago I read quite a long interview with Blake Edwards in which he talked about his sexuality. He said that from his youth he feared he was gay.

IIRC he did considerable conversion therapy around it. I'd like to link it but I'm not able to find it. It was in a reputable newspaper. Perhaps the NYT.

The final impression from the article to me at least was that he was gay but trying his best to lead a straight life.

Wonder if it is in here?

Is she still going on about her IBS?

Julie's Roller Skate Rag...

Julie writes that she and Nina Foch were dear, dear friends and that Foch coached her for years. Interesting because Nina Foch was quite the cunt.

An elder gay in Palm Springs told me that his ex (now deceased) studied with Foch who shouted out "BE A MAN!" as he was doing a scene in class. He was mortified. She carried on demeaning him about looking gay.

Rich coming from a woman married at the time to the big queen James Lipton.

Were all of Nina Foch's husbands gay?

Yes Nina Foch was full of herself. Listen to her audio commentary on the DVD of Illegal.

When I first saw 'Ten Commandments' as a child I couldn't tell the difference between Nina Foch and Anne Baxter.

After you have bought the DVD you really don't need to hear from one of the actors how terrible the movie is and how stupid people must be to think old movies have value.

R192 didn’t she coach a lot of famous actors?

R196 Poor Nina was trying to sound sophisticated and soi-disant.

I loved Nina Foch in "Tales of the City"

Foch u!

[quote]When I first saw 'Ten Commandments' as a child I couldn't tell the difference between Nina Foch and Anne Baxter.

Anne Baxter is camp heaven in "The Ten Commandments." I keep forgetting that Nina Foch is even in the movie.

Nina Foch was the victim in the very first “Columbo” movie.

Dutch born Nina Foch's real family name is Fock. Something had to be done.

Nina Foch who fancied herself a no-nonsense serious stage/film actress appeared with DL fave Anthony Perkins and Miss Ross in Mahogany.

[quote]An elder gay in Palm Springs told me that his ex (now deceased) studied with Foch who shouted out "BE A MAN!"

Isn't that what Streisand said to her own son when directing him in Prince of Tides?

Faggot!

Dear lord, Anthony Perkins stinks up every scene in Mahogany. Nina Foch probably told him so, too.

James Lipton was gay?

R208, Are you deaf and blind?

The Mahogany reference reminds me of this hilarious elder gay who told us about the time as a gayling he hunted down Miss Ross while the Supremes were appearing in the Venetian Room at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

He roamed the halls of the upper floors and as fate would have it he came upon a guy who he heard say "Thank you, Miss Ross" as he removed a service table from her room.

Therein commenced a one-sided conversation as the gayling whispered through the door. "Hello Miss Ross, my name is Roger. I'm your biggest fan in San Francisco. Would you please sign this photograph? I love you so much.......etc"

She never spoke a word but she did sign the photo and slid it back under the door.

He was still whispering through the door when security arrived.

I don't think any gayling ever went this far for Julie Andrews.

R209 No. How about you?

R210, Julie is nice, but she's no DIANA ROSS.

Is she nice-nice, or just nice?

Julie honored by the village of Gstaad in 2014.

Julie "directed" a terrible production of My Fair Lady here in Australia a few years ago.

R215, How can anyone screw up My Fair Lady?

Julie threw in a freewheeling patio number, r216.

Boyfriend & Camelot

[quote] Julie "directed" a terrible production of My Fair Lady here

Was it the actors' fault?

I have never warmed to that Alex Jennings who played Higgins.

Harking back to a bygone golden era is always dangerous; disappointment is a very real risk. But Andrews has succeeded with verve.

What a lovely, recently taken front-cover photo of her. :)

[quote]Julie "directed" a terrible production of My Fair Lady here in Australia a few years ago.

She also directed a production of "The Boy Friend" several years back.

[quote]—Next up: "Camelot"

It sure as hell won't be V/V.

I'm going to add this to this thread. The Decades Binge this weekend is Peter Gunn. Lots of good episodes and really nice noir camerawork. I didn't know Blake also created Richard Diamond.

^ The ghastly Edwards formed a relationship with Enrico Nicola Mancini then.

It lasted on 30 films over 35 years.

[quote]I didn't know Blake also created Richard Diamond.

We did!

[quote] Richard Diamond

Dick Diamond

Julie would have wonderful in The Exorcist in the Ellen Burstyn role. Friedkin initially wanted Carol Burnett, but Julie would have been much better.

When you watch any of the YouTube interviews of Julie and Blake together they are so painfully insufferable....What a mess...

^ can you link an example?

Herro...

Liza!

R232 Julie's face says, "Oh, great. I'm never gonna get rid of her now."

R231 That number is as cringe-worthy number as R178.

Who’s her bio father? She never revealed it in her last book as far as I know.

And the winner is...

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Julie sounds lovely, but she kind of stole the song from Daniel Massey, who was doing such a good job setting it for "Dear Little Girl" when she makes it all about "Dear Little Boy". She didn't have enough other numbers? But Massey did get an Oscar nomination for his performance as Noel Coward.

R238 Wiki says he got a Golden Globe Award and an Oscar nomination playing Noël.

Noël is inimitable so I suppose the heterosexual Daniel made a good fist of it.

R237 Michael is dreamy in that clip.

This thread inspired the husbear and me to fire up a blunt and watch a Julie Andrews concert on youtube. What a laugh.

Is she trolling us? The facial expressions, her prissy enunciation and demeaner. It's hilarious.

There's a reason/s one doesn't hear any gays call out from the audience.

^^^ don't give up until you see Julie sing Do-Re-Mi in Japanese if you like falling off the sofa .

[quote] demeaner

R241 demeanor or demeanour

Demeaner they are, the more likely they are to be posting on DL.

R242, that's useless without a time stamp!; Julie starts singing "Do-Re-Mi" in Japanese at about 26:30.

^^ Damn. I want to slap her.

Ians gossip item from way back

Le Jazz Twat.

Blake and Julie.

Amusing Rex Harrison story here that is sure to make the next book.

Interview begins around 1:20.

R247 Bless you.

At r249 Julie tells the kissing Carol Burnett story. The cover up doesn't fly as well today with Julie's details from this interview IMO.

Julie writes that Blake Edwards' first wife actress Patricia Walker had substance abuse problems and that she threatened to kill herself regularly.

This she did frequently during calls from her London home to Julie's home in Gstaad when her 2 children with Blakes were visiting j and B for the holidays.

It's all fairly insane in that the kids would be sent back to their unstable mother.

R252, Blake hired former wife Patricia to create the costumes for “10”, which initially made Julie uncomfortable, but she was surprisingly pleased with what Patricia chose for her to wear.

[quote]Blake hired former wife Patricia to create the costumes for “10”, which initially made Julie uncomfortable, but she was surprisingly pleased with what Patricia chose for her to wear

Even the burlap panties?