Mary Poppins
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From ‘Arabian Nights’ to ‘Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah’: Disney’s most controversial songs
Despite Disney's many musical hits, its famous songwriters didn't always hit the right notes.
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Julie Andrews offers uplifting coronavirus message
Dame Julie Andrews provides an uplifting message to the billions of people across the world that are quarantining.
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Laurel and Hardy, Batman and Paddington to be honoured with Leicester Square statues
Leicester Square was first home to a cinema in 1930, with the first premiere taking place there in 1937.
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Julie Andrews hid her Oscar for years because she 'didn't feel worthy'
Julie Andrews won an Oscar for her debut performance in the 1964 musical classic 'Mary Poppins'.
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'Mary Poppins Returns': How we wrote the film's Oscar-nominated songs
Scott Wittman, who co-wrote the 'Mary Poppins Returns' soundtrack with Marc Shaiman, shares how the film's songs - including 'The Place Where Lost Things Go' - came together.
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'Mary Poppins' chimney sweep 'blackface' dance is racist, claims academic
The chimney sweep dance in Mary Poppins, led by Dick van Dyk’s affable jack-of-all-trades Burt, harks back to ‘blackface’ tropes, an academic has claimed. In an article in the New York Times, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a professor of English and gender studies professor at Oregon’s Linfield College, has said that in the book by PL Travers, the sequence signifies ‘racial panic’. Pollack-Pelzner flatly calls the scene ‘blacking up’, and while it may seem innocuous, it has other more troubling conno
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Emily Blunt addresses new-found style icon status: "I dress like a boy every day I'm not promoting Mary Poppins"
Almost all of Blunt's ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ premiere looks have hit headlines, from the romantic, billowing-sleeved Yanina Couture gown she wore in LA to the sleek, royal blue Schiaparelli gown she wore in London.