JULIE ANDREWS TALKS ABOUT HER BOOBS

I spent Sunday at the U.C.L.A. Festival of Books. My main excitement over going was getting to see Julie Andrews speak at Royce Hall.

I met these two "bears" while waiting in the line that wrapped completely around Royce Hall.

My adopted Sharp family (Joyce and Serena) stopped by the line and hung out.

Julie looked great and had interesting stories to share with author Patt Morrison (who did a pretty good interviewing job). She mostly spoke about her early years in Vaudeville, the subject matter of her new biography, Home. It's # 1 on the New York Times Bestseller list as of Sunday. I don't have the book yet, but I'd like to read it.


I scored a great seat in the eighth row center and shot some little video with my new Sony T100 digital camera. In the video below, Julie tells a humorous story about getting fitted for a special cut away dress that would reveal her breasts in her husband Blake Edwards' film S.O.B. There's something just great about hearing Julie Andrews talk about her boobs.



This is an adorable dog named Tomi. He worked the K9 unit for the New York Fire Department and LAPD. He also the "co-author" of a book called The K9 Chronicles: Book 2.

I have no idea what this costume was for, but it looked really funny and lifeless just reclining across the stairs.

After the book fair was over, I went to the Venice Pier and caught the lovely sunset.






In the distance you can see the Ferris Wheel at the Santa Monica Pier.





Post Note:
I want to give credit to Squared 5, a free program that helped me convert the .mov movie files from my Sony T100 to mpeg4 so that I could edit them in iMovie. Without Squared 5, my movies were opening in iMovie without sound.

JULIE ANDREWS IS A WOMAN PRETENDING TO BE A MAN PRETENDING TO BE A WOMAN

Tonight I introduce a special screening of Victor/Victoria at Outfest Wednesdays at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. I first saw Victor/Victoria when I was 12 years old and it completely blew me away. It remains one of my top two films (sharing honors with Tootsie - another gender-bending film from 1982.) A lifelong crush on Julie Andrews remains. Sure most of America loves her for her saccharine (though lovable) roles in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, but come on - Julie Andrews in male and female drag - simply divine.

Here are some of my favorite lines (too many really to list) from the film plus a You Tube clip of Julie Andrews singing Le Jazz Hot - my all time favorite musical moment.

Chorus Boy [#1]: [watching "Victor' rehearse] He's fantastic.
Chorus Boy [#2]: He's a phony.
Admirer at rehearsal: What do you mean?
Chorus Boy [#2]: If he's a Polish count, I'm Greta Garbo.
Admirer at rehearsal: [cooing] Well, Greta, whatever he is, I think he's divine.


Toddy: People believe what they see. This afternoon André Cassell will meet Europe's greatest female impersonator.

Victoria: André Cassell is the biggest agent in Paris. If I'm great, why hasn't he heard of me?

Toddy: You're the greatest, but you're unknown, except in Poland.

Victoria: Poland?

Toddy: You're Count Grazinski, Polish aristocrat. You speak very little English. Your family disowned you when they found out you're gay. We met in Warsaw, fell in love, I brought you to Paris.

Victoria: Hold it!

Toddy: What's wrong?

Victoria: "What's wrong?" What's right? A woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman? Ridiculous.

Toddy: It's preposterous. It's so preposterous, no one would believe it.

Victoria: You expect them to believe Count...

Toddy: Grazinski.

Victoria: Grazinski, a gay, Polish female impersonator.

Toddy: Darling, all anybody has to believe is that you're a man. To convince an audience that an illusion is real...the magician creates a plausible diversion. Count Grazinski is our plausible diversion.

Victoria: Toddy, no audience is that gullible. They'll know he's a phony. Right. Well?

Toddy: They'll know he's a phony.



Norma: I think that the right woman could reform you.
Toddy: You know, I think that the right woman could reform you, too.



Toddy: [singing] When people speak of Gay Paree / They think that when they say Paree is gay / They mean that Gay Paree is "Gay!" / It is not in the way Paree was gay in yesterday Paree / It means today that Gay Paree *is* Gay.
[the pianist plays the Fairy Waltz. Toddy stops him]
Toddy: [spoken] Not that gay.