HOME: A MEMOIR OF MY EARLY YEARS
By Julie Andrews
Hyperion, 352 pages, $26.95
My favorite moment in Julie Andrews’ memoir comes after the first New Haven preview of My Fair Lady. Rex Harrison had a pre-performance panic attack, the show ran to an endless three and a half hours, but Julie Andrews Read More
Julie Andrews is returning to Broadway—as a director, according to Variety (blogger?) Army Archerd.
Her most charming book, The Great American Mousical, which she wrote with daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, is being musicked by Anthony Drewe and George Stiles, the team who tuned the musical Mary Poppins. The ultra charming, humorous and yes, Read More
I thought it would be a good idea to take a child with me to see Mary Poppins. Fair’s fair. I’m getting a bit old for Mary Poppins. And so are you.
I used to take children to the theater. But now all the ones I know are practically my age, including my own daughter. Read More
We celebrate the holiday shopping season slightly differently at our house. Instead of storming the Short Hills Mall at 6 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving, we scream at celebrities. Allow me to explain. My mother lives in a fifth-floor apartment on Central Park West. A number of years ago, we discovered that she wasn’t just Read More
I thought it would be a good idea to take a child with me to see Mary Poppins. Fair’s fair. I’m getting a bit old for Mary Poppins. And so are you.
I used to take children to the theater. But now all the ones I know are practically my age, including my own Read More
We celebrate the holiday shopping season slightly differently at our house. Instead of storming the Short Hills Mall at 6 a.m. the day after Thanksgiving, we scream at celebrities. Allow me to explain. My mother lives in a fifth-floor apartment on Central Park West. A number of years ago, we discovered that she wasn’t just Read More
The popular appeal of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the cavernous Hilton Theatre is a combo platter of the following:
Lots and lots of children and lots and lots of dogs. One adorably jolly song reprised five million adorable times: “Oh! You! Pretty Chitty Bang Bang / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we love you …. Read More
Lachlan Murdoch, scion of the News Corporation media empire and publisher of the New York Post , has bought an enormous-and mysterious-14,500-square-foot building in Nolita for $5.25 million.
The purchase snuffed out years of speculation among passers-by downtown as to what goes on in the six-story building at 11 Spring Street, with its one white Read More
Jerry Seinfeld’s Christmas Day union with publicist Jessica Sklar may have officially ended the comic’s bachelorhood, but it didn’t get him out of his bachelor pad. According to real estate sources, Mr. Seinfeld is only now planning to move into the 19th-and-20th-floor duplex apartment at the celebrity-packed Beresford, which he purchased a few months before Read More
Actress Julie Andrews and her husband, film director Blake Edwards, have decided to play hardball with Manhattan’s real estate brokers. The couple dangled their $3.8 million East 62nd Street town house before several brokers until they finally found one to sell it for them for half the normal commission.
The couple moved into the four-story Read More
