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The hills of Switzerland may still be alive with the sound of music, but, unfortunately, it's coming from the Ricola guys. Last week director Blake Edwards revealed that his wife JULIE ANDREWS, 63, will most likely never be able to sing again following throat surgery last year to remove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

A large picture of Mary Poppins, the magical nanny of film fame, is tacked up behind the bar and lends the club an upbeat atmosphere.

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

He could have emerged from Jesse Helms' darkest nightmare of an NEA-performance psycho: a guy who nails his penis to a board and calls it art. Yet Bob Flanagan, masochist with a cause, might win the sympathy of any stony conservative, for he was one of the longest-lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NOT SO SICK | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

Obituaries of Travers--who died last week at 96, and whose real name was Helen Lyndon Goff--invariably (though respectfully) depicted her as a curmudgeonly grouch with a tendency to be "fierce" and "short" with her interlocutors, a woman who didn't "suffer fools gladly," a regular old crosspatch. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS OF STORYTIME | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

For, of course, Disney's Mary Poppins and the character in the Travers books are two entirely different beings. The latter is somewhat fierce, somewhat formidable and perennially unfair. The point about the Mary Poppins of the books is that although wonderful things begin to happen when she arrives, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONERS OF STORYTIME | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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