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...hoyden in a party frock climbed up on the stage. "Don't feel frightened little girl, just sing," said the M.C. So Julie Andrews opened her mouth and the vast hall filled with the "Polonaise" from Mignon. She had the voice of a woman. "I was a child freak," she says. "I had a four-octave range. It was a thin, reedy but very powerful voice. My parents carted me off to a throat specialist, who discovered that I had an adult larynx." Soon Julie became one of the youngest performers ever to give a Royal Variety Performance...
...skipped the third), his principal took him to M.S.U. Education Professor Elizabeth M. Drews, who had been rather precocious herself-she entered the University of Oregon at 15. She arranged for the Wunderkind to monitor M.S.U. courses to see if he could take the grind. Professors expected a freak with a photographic memory, discovered instead a welladjusted, serious child who thought logically, had a zest for ideas, and made subtle, discriminating judgments. At home, he was well behaved, with a normal ten-year-old's enthusiasm for baseball, marbles, stamp collecting. "Mike," his mother once shouted, "put away your...
...WOMAN. Italian Director Marco Ferreri fashions a superb parable of man's inhumanity from this squalid tale about a fast-buck promoter who meets, marries and makes a freak show of a girl (Annie Girardot) covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...
...WOMAN. Italian Director Marco Ferreri creates a sublime parable of man's inhumanity out of this squalid tale about a fast-buck promoter who meets, marries and makes a freak show of a girl (Annie Girardot) covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...
...woman of the title (Annie Girardot) is a freak: a poor thing covered from head to foot with a coat of long, brown, silky hair. The leading man (Ugo Tognazzi), a Neapolitan spiv, finds her working as a scullion in a convent kitchen. "Mamma mia!" he gasps. "She really looks like an ape. I could start a freak show and clean up." The idea scares her half to death. She's not very bright to begin with, and on top of that she is painfully ashamed of her affliction. But the spiv aggressively jollies her out of her objections...