Actually, she's much more convincing as a bisexual/androgynous character than Bowie ever was, which contributes greatly to her massive stature in the GLBT communities (unlike Bowie).
― everything, Friday, 26 October 2007 19:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
Fact: she comes from the same village as Jimmy Pursey, which leads to the question, which one's faking the accent?
― everything, Friday, 26 October 2007 19:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
Could Pursey's delivery of the line "Stop being naughty, take our advice" in the song "Hersham Boys" be a nod to his erstwhile neighbour?
― everything, Friday, 26 October 2007 19:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
she was my ideal of feminine beauty when I was 7.
― horseshoe, Friday, 26 October 2007 19:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
Great moments in history: Julie loses the role of Eliza Doolitle to the highly inferior Audrey Hepburn but wins the Best Actress oscar anyway.
― everything, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
Actually, she's much more convincing as a bisexual/androgynous character than Bowie ever was
she's horrible, especially when called upon to lecture Garner on sexuality.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
I don't mean specifically in Victor/Victoria but throughout her entire oeuvre there are characters and performances of great significance to many, many gays AND lesbians.
― everything, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
Meaning the way her characters (including Maria, Mary Poppins and T.M. Millie) subverted the traditional ideas of femininity in the min-20th century, giving those on the sexual margins someone to identify with in mainstream entertainment.
― everything, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
on the whole I'm not very fond of Liza Minnelli either.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
Not even as an influence on Bowie?
― everything, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
Millie is complicated, though: she wants to be a tough, modern woman just to go with the flow! But then after her last-ditch, most unconvincing attempt to be really vampy, the film ends with her actually saying "I don't want to be treated like an equal -- I want to be a woman!"
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
Alfred, judge V/V by 1982 standards -- it's at least as adventurous as Brokeback Lockjaw, and much funnier.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
xpost My memory of Thoroughly Modern Millie is that it's pretty bad overall. I've got the soundtrack album which is 3/10 at best. Yet it won a bunch of Oscars including best song and best score.
― everything, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
Robert Preston's terrific, but the production numbers are tacky and songs meh.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
plus Carol Channing as the extroverted heiress or whatever....
― everything, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
it's pretty bad overall... Yet it won a bunch of Oscars
"Yet" doesn't nec belong there.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
RASPBERRIES
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
I did like that WWI musical Darling Lili w/ Rock Hudson -- the bomb that pretty much killed the movie musical.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
i never liked her voice but her hairstyle is the worst of alltime
― gershy, Saturday, 27 October 2007 04:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
Victor Victoria is great, you're all off the rails. Not only is Julie Andrews K-ROWR as the charming Count Grezhinski, it's got Robert Preston, ppl. Robert Preston is even fun to watch in The Last Starfighter. You just can't lose with him.
Oh, speaking of which, and staying on topic -- S.O.B.
"Sally Miles, America's G-rated darling, in the B-U-F-F?"
― kenan, Friday, 11 April 2008 15:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
Love that boobies scene from S.O.B. - may have been my first film boobies and I remember my dad delighting in showing it to me ... weird, huh. He also had an old college history textbook where he wrote 'julie andrews is a fink' on the side of the closed pages ...
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 11 April 2008 15:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
she's got an early-years memoir out; her parents were drunks, and stepdad tried to get in bed with her. :( Sounds like a Mothers Day present!
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 11 April 2008 16:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
I picked up Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center for $2.95 a few days ago. Been wanting to hear it ever since the mention of their 1960s medley (about 50 songs in 13 minutes) in Incredibly Strange Music. Of course, I never bothered to check youtube for it. Et voila:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctAMebjM6pc
Not as good as LMP's "Hits of '69." But it makes everyone who hears it just a little bit gayer.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 11:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
what a looker
― Surmounter, Monday, 4 May 2009 16:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
<3
― Do you love me now? (surm), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 06:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
who made it so such few individuals were given so much talent?
― Do you love me now? (surm), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 06:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
Watching S.O.B. tonight. Larry Hagman's hair = classic.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 June 2010 23:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
one of her funniest roles f'sure. also nice Larry Storch cameo.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 03:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
"LIV ULLMAN!"
<3 Julie ANdrews
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 04:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
The movie was terrible! What a look into how sixtysomething fossils regarded the Me Decade.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 12:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
I saw it on cable when I was 8, so it seems unfair for me to say it sucked.
― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 13:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Awesome Julie Andrews
<3 <3 <3 her
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Monday, 29 November 2010 23:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
WHoa I just watched Thoroughly Modern Millie on Friday, and I was going to dig up nabisco's thoughts on it, and here they are. What a weird movie it was.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
This circus thing is fabulous! Is it from "The Saga of Jenny – Star!"? I think I need to see this. Even the clowns did not spoil this clip. <3 the sequin devils!
Julie looks *great* with her hair like that.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Saga of Jenny is the song titleHer hair DOES look great like that!! I thought the same thing. This is agl for her.
I remember Thoroughly Modern Millie, but not very well. I remember wishing her outfits were cuter.
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
I agree, the outfits looked like Halloween costumes in a bad way. I thought Carol CHanning was the best person in it. The whole "Chinese caricatures selling pretty white orphans into sexual slavery" really was o_O
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Can anyone argue with these lyrics?
Jenny made her mind up at 75 she would live to be the oldest woman alive, but gin and rum and destiny play funny tricks -- and poor Jenny kicked the bucket at 76.
Yeah, TMMillie was muy costumey and pretty disappointing for period clothes.
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
NOTE: I do not want any Jennies to kick the bucket now or at 76 but the lyrics of this song are v good in general and that's the part I always sing to myself when I think of this song. That and "Poor Jenny, bright as a penny -- her equal would be hard to find" and the part about how "she got herself a husband...but he wasn't hers."
There are times when Josephine Foster reminds me of Julie Andrews in the best possible way.
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 00:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
RIP your husband, Julie. My thoughts are with you. XOXOX
― ergonomically chromium plated fish slice (La Lechera), Thursday, 16 December 2010 19:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 11:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ok, I love Julie Andrews. Still, I couldn't put my finger on it, but something about the whole smiling old timey trend reminded me of something, and I couldn't figure out what it was until I saw 5 minutes of Thoroughly Modern Millie just now (I have a night class, gotta wind down somehow) and realized that was it. The creepiness of fake nostalgia? Check. Corny? Check. Cutesy rather than cute? Clearly. It's not exactly the same, obvs, but it's at least one strain of the same bacteria.
It's not going to ruin my love of Julie Andrews because she was a lot more than whatever this is, but I cannot deny that the cardboard fake flappers and relentless smiling of the Lumineers cello girl have something in common.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Friday, 25 January 2013 05:28 (3 months ago) Permalink