Julie Andrews Receives AFI Life Achievement Award

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She really is a gorgeous, lovely woman.

A treasure. Met her at a book signing about 10 years ago. She had a big head and (by then) a somewhat deep, low, resonant speaking voice.

Poor Julie.

She had so much talent but America swallowed her.

Should have got it 30 years ago.

She looks fantastic.

"It's a spin on The Sound of Music, but instead of Julie Andrews, I come to the door." (actual pitch to CBS)

This photo is making me insanely happy.

I was looking at her dress. I guess the poor didn't want this one.

[quote] She looks fantastic.

I thought she did . . . up until the last half decade. She's now looking her years.

Carol and Julie are treasures.

The AFI video edit from the famous Sound of Music spin into Julie ripping her top off in S.O.B. was unfortunate.

R11 If you enlarge the photo you can see a large bandage on her left shoulder.

It's either that or a skin tag.

The " kids" appeared, looking well fed.

WHO is her surgeon?

I want his number!

I didnt realize Andrews singing career ended when a surgeon botched a surgery to remove polyps from her vocal cords.

Lover...

She’s had great work done over the years—but—I think she is too old to be showing so much bare shoulder and décolleté. Of course, she and her “chum” Carol Burnett have been lovers on and off for sixty years.

If she gets one I get one, posthumously.

R 21. You cunt. Really, you are a f@cling twat and I’m glad you are dead.

AnnE (the correct DL spelling) Hathaway did not attend? That's some crazy scheduling conflict... right? Right?

If she did, she wasn't featured in all of those pics - but Jane (Irrelevant in 2022) certainly made her presence felt for the photographers.

I wonder if they showed the AnnE skit from SNL where she played Mary Poppins - that was very, very funny. Julie's a good sport and would have appreciated the humor.

She really is practically perfect in every way.

Probably my favorite Julie rendition. I had this concert taped on VHS when I was in first grade and I watch it endlessly.

Yes, MARY!!!!

If LMM and Billy Porter weren't there to witness, the award is bogus.

Julie showing camel toe with lover Carol.

When she’s about to cum, I do the Tarzan yell into her clit.

Have Daughters Of Bilitis given her an award yet?

Julie and Beanie's brother.............

I remember hearing about this a while back and thinking how Audrey Hepburn never got a chance to receive as many life time achievement awards as she could have, dying as young as she did.

No James Corden?

R8 oh, please! She'd be a nobody without Hollywood. Same goes for every Brit, because the UK film/TV industry is quite small by comparison.

Yes, you're right, R34.

I was merely expressing may private sadness that she made so many awful decisions from 1966 onwards.

1. She appeared in so many trash movies. 2. Her first marriage finished and then she married that LA vulgarian.

Why is there so little information on her adopted Vietnamese daughters?

R36 Because it was a foolish impetuous decision that demonstrated Virtue-Signalling but ended badly.

LE JAZZ TWAT!

That is a seriously C list group of people for an AFI event. Is she persona non grata these days?

OmG, the show just started and I’m already crying. 😢🥲

She’s looking more Victor and less Victoria these days. Blake seemed creepy. I follow Angela Cartwright on Instagram. She seems like a lovely person and is still very close to the surviving VT kids . It’s nice to know making that movie was such a happy experience for them.

R41- Blake Edwards sounds like the name of a QUEEN 👸

Bo Derek looks great. Doesn’t look like she’s had any work done and her outfit was simple and elegant.

Mr. Andrews has a mighty stalwart set of shoulders sitting atop his physique.

'The AFI video edit from the famous Sound of Music spin into Julie ripping her top off in S.O.B. was unfortunate.'

I'm so glad I didn't see that. That scene was such a desperate move to give her some sort of contemporary relevance. As Vincent Canby said about her need to take off her clothes in public 'when you take the clothes off the girl guide you've got a very naked girl guide.' And this girl guide had to have her breasts surgically enhanced to be made presentable for her millions of adoring fans. Her professional career took a header when she hooked up with Edwards in the late 60s. The death of movie musicals in the late 60s was so unfortunate as we may have had a She Loves Me with her and Van Dyke which is one of the great movie musical might have beens. She also should have returned to Broadway much sooner when her voice was still in its full glory and she still had the stamina for 8 performances a week.

And what did happen to those virtue signaling Vietnamese children of theirs?

I know most of her co stars are dead but where was Lesley Ann Warren?

Jane Seymour looked fantastic as well.

They really made her look bad in that dumb B Positive show.

I'm going to show my boobies!

The bitch seemed to think she was the star in "Thoroughly Modern Millie".

You were both bitches.

She is such a cunt face.

The Adult Film Institute?

Carol and Julie make a nice couple.

R53 Quickly, before of them dies: “Julie and Carol at The Dinah”

I liked her work in Victor/Victoria.

My chum and I have been hiding in plain sight all these years.

Julie’s heartfelt thank you speech proves why she’s a class act and people love her.

Someday someone will write the definitive book about Julie and Carol's more than 60-year relationship and it will be inspiring, if truthful. Everyone in the industry has known about it and respected their wish for privacy. Julie solidified it when she married Blake Edwards, a deeply closeted man who reputedly slept with a regular Who's Who of Hollywood males. Julie and Blake enjoyed a solid friendship and similar sense of humor. Carol, however, was the true love of Julie's life and vice versa. The fact that it has been sustained over the decades is a testament to the depth of their love and devotion and should be revered.

Burnett is Emma Walton's godmother.

Carol fumbled on the word relationship last night and quickly explained it was a friendship. Good for them if it is a relationship. They clearly adore eachother. And funny how Carol came back to NYC and broadway around the same time Julie opened in Victor/Victoria.

Was that Carol's first time back on Broadway since she practically estranged the entire community with her lack of professionalism(for that time anyway)?

MARY! 😭

No wonder Carol loved Jim Nabors, they both hid in plain sight for many years.

[quote] she practically estranged the entire community with her lack of professionalism

Are you referring to this behavior, R61?

"The producers of 'Fade Out – Fade' In sued her for breach of contract after her absences from the popular show caused its failure, but the suit was later dropped. "

I'm sorry, but what exactly has the widow Edwards done that merits a "life achievement award" in film? Has she ever appeared in a truly great movie? And even if you do think that, say, MARY POPPINS and/or THE SOUND OF MUSIC qualify . . . what about after them?

Skimming over the list of past honorees, I'd say they've chosen pretty well in previous years. (Only Kirk Douglas stood out to me as a questionable candidate.) But to honor Julie Andrews before Sally Field or Faye Dunaway or Ellen Burstyn or Jessica Lange seems perverse to me. Several of Andrews' fellow Englishwomen -- Maggie Smith, say, or Judi Dench or Vanessa Redgrave or even Glenda Jackson -- would have been far worthier choices.

Blake never much cared for my ladyparts.

If Carol Burnett likes women, why did she go after a married man and break up his marriage? The least path of resistance would have been a nice lavender marriage. Maybe with Jim Nabors.

Wasn't the married man a powerful TV producer?

Mary Poppins and SOM were such huge successes and continue to exert such a powerful hold in the American cultural landscape that they figured those two were enough to justify an AFI. And My Fair Lady and Camelot should be enough to get her an honorary Tony but leave it to the Tony committee to be petty enough to deny her one just because she told them decades ago to go to hell.

[quote] Mary Poppins and SOM … a powerful hold in the American cultural landscape

Mary Poppins = English characters in an English story.

SOM = Austrian characters in an Austrian story.

Mary Poppins and Sound of Music were both made by American studios and have huge followings in America.

R70, your "logic" escapes us.

I acknowledge your blinkered viewpoint, R72.

Julie Andrews is a much beloved star from the tail end of the golden age of Hollywood and also seems like a genuinely nice person. And she's still with us, which can't be said of the vast majority of golden age stars. If the AFI saw fit to honor her, so be it. Apparently whoever made the decision didn't bother to consult with the bitchy old queens of DL who carp over every fucking thing.

The next AFI will go to Julia Roberts or Jodie Foster. They need to go younger not older.

[quote] Mary Poppins and Sound of Music ... have huge followings in America.

So does Shakespeare but that doesn't make him American.

Anyone who would question whether Julie Andrews deserved the AFI award based on her body of work doesn't understand that it's not always about quantity. Arguably, MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC were such massive hits, so beloved, and have become such indelible classics that she would deserve the award based only on those two movies, but in addition to that she had THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE -- not quite so massive a hit, but it was one of the biggest movies of that year -- and VICTOR/VICTORIA, another winner.

V/V was not a hit. It's a popular gay cult movie. As someone said Leslie Ann Warren is the best thing about it.

T'was a hit, twat.

I can see them awarding Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, David Fincher, Ridley Scott. Will Smith blew his chance.

For ladies, Jodie, Julia, Cate. I wish Sigourney, she is so underrated.

I doubt Sally, Jessica or Sissy.

Who did Diane Keaton fuck to get one?

Perhaps it's the gesture that counts, but (just like the Tony) the trophy itself is very underwhelming.

R67 Because everyone is gay and closeted according to DL.

Viola Davis (tapping my foot)

R81 She never sucked my cock.

STFU r81

Keaton had a great career. Oscar nominations over 4 decades. Few can say that.

I was surprised AnnE didn't attend in person.

Also it would have been cool to have Lesly Ann Warren talk about V/V and Cinderella.

[quote]V/V was not a hit.

Yes, it was. What's your purpose in typing false information like that?

Scary Mary

How was it a hit? It didn't even gross twice its budget. It was lucky if it broke even.

Do you suppose she and Carol Burnett were lezzing out with their fingers underneath that long bower of flowers?

[quote] How was it a hit? It didn't even gross twice its budget. It was lucky if it broke even.

It cost $15 million to make, and made $28.2 million at the box office. But then it made even more through video rentals--it was quite successful on home video.

OK I'll give you that. But we're not talking Annie rentals.

My chum’s got a Texas-sized clitty.

Bo Derek looks great. She kept her figure.

You call that "well" OP? Yes, I'm six years younger, but can she do THIS?

Julie was one of the most talented singers ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in Hollywood. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

They're scraping the bottom of the barrel with this recipient. What in the fuck did Julie Andrews do on film except make people nauseous? She's a grotesques presence in every way. Homely, can't act, has no comedic skills and her singing was never award worthy.

Next year, give the AFI to Miss Kay Lenz!

Does Julie have a wife or girlfriend?

Julie has a nurse.

[quote]They're scraping the bottom of the barrel with this recipient. What in the fuck did Julie Andrews do on film except make people nauseous? She's a grotesques presence in every way. Homely, can't act, has no comedic skills and her singing was never award worthy.

What a terrible thing to lose one's mind.

While I agree she didn't really deserve a 'Lifetime Acheivement' award, she clearly didn't make everyone nauseous R98. Most, but not everyone.

And her husband was ill for more than 2 decades -- ending up in a wheelchair. Did she ever bring that up? No. It was all about her tonsils, her vocal cords...HER.

CAROL!

I was molested.

Well she did make two of the biggest most popular films of all time which to this day keep raking in the dough. They are forgotten by no one. She is an American cultural icon whether you like it or not.

She maybe a cultural icon for her two cornball films of 60 years ago. What she is NOT - is deserving of any lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute. That award has been a joke for years now. But handing it to Julie Andrews is a new low.

Where is her Phaedra? Her Lady Macbeth?