32 h. ago Julie Andrews’ wonderful take on Jane Austen: the best podcasts of the week

Over 25 episodes the screen legend is an absolute delight as the narrator of Pride & Prejudice. Plus, Kevin McCloud take us behind the scenes of his long-running property showWho better to retell Jane Austen’s most beloved story than her royal highness Julie Andrews? It may lack Colin Firth in a wet shirt, but the Hollywood great is a wonderful and faithful narrator of the original romcom classic about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy. The series, which is broken down into 25 episodes, not only celebrates the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth – it’s Andrews’s 90th birthday this year, too! Hollie Richardson Widely available, episodes weekly Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Follow Julie Andrews' foosteps in a tour of the charming Austrian city where The Sound of Music was filmed

Deputy Travel Editor Hayley Minn Heads to Salzburg, Austria with her mum and aunt to join a Sound of Music tour of the city.

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5 d. ago Revealed: How Julie Andrews looks so good at 90 after overcoming a rough childhood with an alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather

The Surrey-born actress, 90, has only seen her success soar in recent years as the voice of Lady Whistledown in Netflix 's popular Bridgerton series - all while looking as youthful as ever.

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6 d. ago Julie Andrews at 90: the magical nanny with a sideline in the sly, sexy and subversive

Britain’s practically perfect star enters her 10th decade today. To celebrate we look back over the remarkably rich, radical – and sometimes risqué – career of an actor best known for tucking up children in the mid 1960sDame Julie Andrews, so crisply accented, sweetly tuneful and girlish in her most famous movie musicals, has always had a sense of humour about her angelic image. She won the 1965 Oscar for playing a “practically perfect” English nanny for Walt Disney, but that didn’t stop her from driving around Los Angeles with a “Mary Poppins Was a Junkie” bumper sticker on her car. Or telling journalists that “I hate the word wholesome”, and her Hollywood nickname was “the nun with the switchblade”. Andrews turns 90 today, one of the most beloved of Hollywood stars, with one of cinema’s most astonishing voices. She can look back on a fascinating film career that includes such sweet spoonfuls of sugar as Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965) to The Princess Diaries (200...

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6 d. ago ‘I am quite tough’: Schindler’s List star Embeth Davidtz on her explosive film about Rhodesia’s final days

After starring in Mad Men, Californication, Spider-Man and Junebug, Davidtz soured on acting. Now she’s directed – and starred in – a powerful debut filmBorn in the US, raised in apartheid-era South Africa, a reluctant star in her 20s following her big break in Schindler’s List, and now a first-time director at the age of 60, Embeth Davidtz knows what it means to be an outsider. “I’ve always had the feeling,” she says, “that I don’t quite belong.”Normally found in Los Angeles – where she lives in a house once owned by Julie Andrews, with her husband, the entertainment lawyer Jason Sloane – Davidtz is today in Cape Town for work and family commitments. Speaking by video call from a cream-and-beige bedroom, wearing a white top and glasses with peach-coloured frames, her brunette hair tied back, she looks the picture of serenity. The effect is completed by her voice, which soothed millions of children when she starred as the perfect teacher, Miss Honey, in the 1996 film of Roald Dahl’s...

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4 w. ago Journalist responds after Ayo Edebiri excluded from Me Too and Black Lives Matter question

The exchange at the Venice Film Festival made headlines after going viral

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4 w. ago Italian reporter forced to respond after leaving Hollywood stars horrified with Black Lives Matter question

Italian journalist Federica Polidoro's chat with Ayo Edebiri, Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield about their movie After The Hunt on Italy 's ArtsLife Tv went viral.

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4 w. ago Ayo Edibiri praised for ‘gracious’ response after reporter asked white co

Italian journalist asked Andrew Garfield and Julia Roberts what ‘to expect in Hollywood after the MeToo movement and the Black Lives Matter are done’

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4 w. ago Ayo Edibiri praised for ‘gracious’ response after reporter snubbed her for question about BLM

Italian journalist asked Andrew Garfield and Julia Roberts what ‘to expect in Hollywood after the MeToo movement and the Black Lives Matter are done’

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last month Dame Julie Andrews wins Emmy Award at 89 years old for Bridgerton voice

The 89-year-old actress was previously nominated for the Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance award in 2021, 2022 and 2023

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