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Re: At 79 years old.
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:16 am
by Mike.1940
This is soooo last year..........
Re: At 79 years old.
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 2:28 pm
by LouiseCastricum
Mike.1940 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:16 am
This is soooo last year..........
BUT STILL BRILLIANT !
Re: At 79 years old.
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:45 pm
by Firefly
True, unfortunately !
Re: At 79 years old.
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 6:41 pm
by memory man
Julie is 83 years old.
Re: At 79 years old.
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:01 pm
by Kili01
I hadn’t heard it before and enjoyed reading and singing it to myself!
Good sense of humour needed as it’s so true!
Dee
Re: At 79 years old.
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:35 pm
by Dominic
Julie Andrews has been unable to sing since the late 90s.
The sad truth can be read here:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/my-favorite-things/
There is more but this is a summary:
Julie Andrews lost the ability to sing in 1997. That year she was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital for the removal of a non-cancerous polyp on her vocal cords, and what should have been a simple surgical procedure went dreadfully wrong. Her multi-octave singing voice was virtually destroyed.
Andrews sued the two doctors and the hospital for what had been done to her. In 2000, she settled her malpractice suit out of court, and though the terms of that settlement were not publicly disclosed, the amount she recouped is believed to be in the neighborhood of £20 million (about $30 million US).
Not only didn’t Julie Andrews sing the ‘blue hair’ parody of “My Favorite Things” for a Radio City Music Hall audience on her 69th birthday, she couldn’t have.
“Will I ever completely come to terms with not singing? I don’t know,” says the former Mary Poppins. “I miss it very much indeed.”