LONDON: If Mary Poppins had been US President Donald Trump’s nanny, she would have “shaped him up pretty quickly,” says Julie Andrews, the actress who immortalised the singing governess with magical powers on the big screen. Andrews and Poppins have been intertwined in the cultural conscience ever since Walt Disney’s 1964 musical comedy. She was also the leading lady in another timeless classic: “The Sound of Music.”In that wholesome musical, Andrews leaps, bounds and sings in the Austrian mountain pastures while seducing the noble widower – played by Christopher Plummer – whose numerous offspring she looks after. But the author of the Mary Poppins book, Pamela Travers, was initially less impressed, telling Andrews: “You are far too pretty for it. “Home Work, A Memoir of My Hollywood Years” is the actress’ second volume following 2008’s best-seller “Home: A Memoir of My Early Years.”--AFP

Source: New Strait Times November 03, 2019 13:52 UTC