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It has been four years since Kelly Preston passed away from a two-year-long battle with breast cancer, and her widower, John Travolta, still takes every chance to praise her as always. The Grease star took to Instagram on Mother’s Day with a touching tribute to Kelly, who birthed three of his kids. “Happy Mother’s Day Kelly. We love you, we miss you,” John wrote alongside throwback photos of Kelly and the kids. Fans joined John to pay their respects to Kelly while admiring their memorable relationship even after her death. “Your soulmate, for sure. Happy heavenly Mother’s Day, beautiful Kelly!” someone wrote. John Travolta pays tribute to late Kelly Preston   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by John Travolta (@johntravolta) John’s daughter, Ella Bleu, also posted in celebration of her late mother with a similar caption and a black-and-white photo of Kelly bathing her as a baby. This comes after she paid tribute to her late older brother Jett, with a photo of him and herself as infants as well. “Happy Birthday, Jetty. I love you always,” the twenty-four-year-old wrote. RELATED: John Travolta Reportedly Makes Major Relationship Decision After Kelly Preston’s Death Fans encouraged Ella and thanked her for remembering Kelly and “sharing such a sweet picture with us.” “This is bringing tears to my eyes. Kelly was a beautiful person inside and out, the way she loved her kids and John is something you only witness in a blue moon,” someone wrote, with another adding that the Jerry Maguire star “will always be in all the hearts of everyone that loved and knew her.” Instagram Ready to move on? John expressed his desire to move on and remarry earlier this year after revealing that he took a “vow of celibacy” following Kelly’s passing. An insider reported that John’s family nudged him to find a new lover because Kelly would have wanted him to. John eventually gave in because “life is too short for remorse and constant anguish.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by John Travolta (@johntravolta) Although he has yet to find a new beau, John has a few requirements and expectations for a “kind, warm, gracious, funny, and spontaneous” new woman. There have been rumors about brewing chemistry between him and Sex And The City actress Kristin Davis, who became “flirty friends” with him on the set of Cash Out. A source disclosed that John is taking his time, hence his reluctance to kick things off with Davis—or anyone at all. Click for next Article The post John Travolta Pays Tribute To Late Wife Kelly Preston For Mother’s Day appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Peace A

UPDATED 5/13/2024 There’s no question that typecasting can be one of the biggest downsides of Hollywood, especially in decades past. The seeming punishment for being successful in a certain kind of role is that casting people can see you as nothing else and it’s all the public wants. Julie Andrews has certainly experienced that pain, having scored with the one-two punch of 1964’s Mary Poppins and 1965’s The Sound of Music — mega-hits of that decade that follow the British actress to this day. Getting her start in Britain, where she was born October 1, 1935, Julie came to America to perform on Broadway in such shows as My Fair Lady (1956), playing Eliza Doolittle; and Camelot (1960) as Queen Guinevere. She also starred in the live television broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1957) and made her big-screen debut in Mary Poppins. As you can see, the seeds for her career pain were planted early on. In 1965, The Cincinnati Enquirer wrote, “Julie Andrews is her name and her reign appears infinite. In an era of blatant nudity on screen and shabby off-screen headlines, Julie, like a princess in some fairy tale, has forced Hollywood to re-evaluate its standards of taste and style in leading ladies.” RELATED: The Sound of Music Cast Then and Now 2021 Fairy Tale Princess Come to Life? (Everett Collection) Heavy being on the receiving end of that, huh? But they weren’t finished: “She smells of soap and fresh air. She makes sounds like a freshly starched petticoat. Her Bristol-blue eyes are direct and open. Her hair is blonde from top to roots. She’s bright and communicative and astonishingly forthright. It’s a refreshing turn away from half-naked sex kittens, simpering dames in their 40s guarding long lost virtue and old bags committing murder. Julie Andrews is the new queen of the movies. Long live the queen.” (20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved/courtesy Everett Collection) Jump ahead a year and the Oakland Tribune offers its own testimonial of the singing actress: “Julie Andrews is the closest we have these days to a storybook princess. She is Wendy, Cinderella, Alice, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White all wrapped up in pink person. In Hollywood, she is the about the last thing left of golden purity, carrying on in the footsteps of Mary Pickford, Shirley Temple and Grace Kelly.” Wow. Julie as Cinderella in a 1957 TV production (Everett Collection) Tough to overcome all that, not that Julie didn’t try, but her various efforts failed to pay off in any sort of meaningful way. It was something that her childhood agent, Charles Tucker, seemed to be aware of from the very beginning, commenting, “This quality she has got, call it wholesomeness if you like, was born in her; she’ll never lose it. There’s an indefinable something about her personality that makes her unlike any other girl in the world. The remarkable thing is that it comes out on the screen. Julie’s no character actress. She will always play Julie Andrews. But no one can come within fifty million miles of her in a musical.” HAWAII, Julie Andrews, 1966. As noted, she did attempt to change that. In 1966 she co-starred with Paul Newman in Alfred Hitchcock’s political thriller Torn Curtain and got top billing in the epic drama Hawaii. But then she was back in the musical territory in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Star! (1968), a disastrous biographical musical based on the life of British performer Gertrude Lawrence; and the spy musical Darling Lili (1970). On television she appeared and performed on a number of variety shows, even hosting two of her own: The Julie Andrews Show (1965) and The Julie Andrews Hour (1972 to 1973).  She managed some success in the non-musical romantic drama The Tamarind Seed (1974) and the Bo Derek/Dudley Moore comedy 10 (1979). Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in the Broadway production of My Fair Lady in 1956 (Everett Collection) How to avoid being Typecast… In a 1981 interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer Julie opined, “The typing was caused by a number of things. The public played some part. But the studios sometimes insist on casting you for successful types that have made money. I played Gertrude Lawrence in a rather unsympathetic light, because that’s the way I saw it. I really thought she was somewhat foolish at times. But I certainly don’t regret Star!. It was superbly crafted and gave a lot of people much pleasure. I rejected many films, because I put my family first. I still put it first. Others I rejected because I didn’t want to play the same role again and again. Others just weren’t good.” Julie in the 1960 to 1963 Broadway production of Camelot (Everett Collection) By the 1980s, Julie was in need of something of a career shake-up and she thought she found it in S.O.B., the comedy written and directed by her husband, Blake Edwards, which was a satire of Hollywood and featured a film within a film. It is during that film that Julie’s character, actress Sally Miles, decides to rip off her top to reveal her breasts! It was quite the shocking moment for her long-time fans and drew the lion’s share of attention for the decade-in-the-works film when it was released. Julie in S.O.B. (Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection) But if Julie viewed this as an opportunity to break free of the shackles of Mary and Maria, it didn’t really work. In fact, many of the reviews in their headline didn’t proclaim that Julie Andrews had gone topless, but, as in the case of The Daily Journal of Franklin, Indiana, it was “Mary Poppins Goes Topless.” In its review of the film, the Chicago Tribune rhetorically asked, “Why would Julie Andrews do a thing like that? First, because it was in the script; second, because she is sick and tired of being thought of as ‘oh-so-sweet;’ third, because she’s quite nice to look at; and fourth, because she wanted to make the same point as Blake Edwards — that the denizens of the Hollywood film community are totally amoral creatures who will do anything to make a buck.” Below is Julie and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton!   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Emma Hamilton (@ewhamilton) “At first,” Julie said in a television interview, “when Blake suggested I do that upper torso shot” — which is what she prefers to call the topless scene — “I believe I said, ‘Oh, yes?’ But after one lives with the idea for 10 years, one gets used to it. When the moment of truth came, it really was not difficult at all. There was a closed set. It was very quiet. Just the crew, and they had seen everything before so they weren’t very interested. Blake may have felt that it was about time I was emancipated.” Julie and Anne Hathaway in The Princess Diaries 2 (Buena Vista/courtesy Everett Collection) “It was daring,” she admitted to the Chicago Tribune. “It even felt daring while we were filming. And that made it so enjoyable. But more than all of that, I loved doing S.O.B., because the film is important to Blake. I’ve been watching it grow and mature for the 10 years since he started writing it.” Author Richard Stirling, in the pages of Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography, notes that when S.O.B. opened in London, The Times commented, “Julie Andrews is the Peter Pan star who turns Emanuelle for the good of the grosses. When she finally bares her breasts, she does it with the awesome deliberation of someone who knows that this is indeed a moment of motion picture history.” LITTLE MISS MARKER, Julie Andrews, 1980 Except that, in the end, it wasn’t. Writes Stirling, “One month after Julie’s attempt to demolish her image hit the cinema screen, her childhood rival Petula Clark opened in the first West End stage revival of The Sound of Music, with advance sales of more than one million pounds. Forty-eight-year-old Petula earned rave notices from the critics and the real Maria von Trapp, with crowds hungry as ever for a musical of hope and happiness.” THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE, Petula Clark, ph: Gene Trindl / TV Guide / courtesy Everett Collection Ironically, Julie’s career slowed down a great degree from 1986 to 2000, and when she came back? It was as the voice of Queen Lillian in the Shrek film series and as Queen Clarisse Renaldi in a pair of The Princess Diaries movies. Things have, you might say, gone full circle, but Julie Andrews insists that she isn’t and hasn’t been concerned about her image. British series The Graham Norton Show features Julie, Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon (BBC America / Courtesy Everett Collection) “I think if I worried terribly about my image, it would be very foolish,” she related. “I would constantly be doing things like Mary Poppins and I’d never grow or I’d never expand or sort of stretch my talents. And so I think it would be rather dumb to just stay in one place.” At the same time, if that “one place” are things like Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, there are worse places to be. Let’s revisit with the incredible cast of Sound of Music:  For more of these throwback videos, check out our YouTube Channel! Why did Julie Andrews turn down Mary Poppins? Julie Andrews turned down the Mary Poppins reboot because she didn’t want to take away from Emily Blunt’s performance. Emily Blunt starred in the leading role of Mary Poppins. What disease does Julie Andrews have? Julie Andrews previously learned she had non-cancerous nodules in her throat after a routine checkup. After having them removed surgically, she was informed she would unfortunately never be able to sing above a certain note ever again. What does Julie Andrews think of Mary Poppins Returns? Julie Andrews loved Mary Poppins Returns and hopes that we’re able to get another one “in 30 years or whatever.” There is no word on if we’ll get another Mary Poppins remake. Click for next Article The post Julie Andrews Tried to Kill Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp by Baring Her Breasts — It Didn’t Work appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Ed Gross

Actor Steve Buscemi was recently attacked while visiting New York City. His publicist told PEOPLE that Buscemi was “assaulted in midtown Manhattan,” making him “another victim of a random act of violence in the city.” NYPD is currently investigating the attack against 66-year-old Buscemi, the department told CNN. The assault took place on Wednesday, May 8, and police were called to the scene at 369 3rd Avenue shortly before noon. Steve Buscemi was attacked while in New York City Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire star Steve Buscemi was attacked while walking around New York / © Hulu /Courtesy Everett Collection While walking through the Kips Bay neighborhood, at around 11:50 a.m., Buscemi was suddenly approached by a stranger and punched in the face. The attacker then fled the scene. Buscemi’s face was swollen, particularly around his left eye. Additionally, he also had bruising and even bleeding from the afflicted eye. The Boardwalk Empire actor was then taken to Bellevue Hospital. He was stable when emergency services transported him to the hospital. RELATED: How Actor Steve Buscemi Helped Search For Survivors On 9/11 The attacker was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt, black pants with white sneakers, and a baseball cap. Days after the incident, an eyewitness, a local worker, recounted, “I saw he was with a woman, and then through the corner of the window, I saw him trip and fall backward. He right away got up and ran in the opposite direction. I didn’t see who hit him.” His publiist also issued a statement updating fans on Buscemi’s condition. “He is ok and appreciates everyone’s well wishes,” the statement assured, adding, “though incredibly sad for everyone that this has happened to while also walking the streets of NY.” The attack on Steve Buscemi is part of a bigger pattern NYPD releases photos of suspect in random attack on actor Steve Buscemi https://t.co/3nnEPsvuAG — HNGN (@HNGNcom) May 13, 2024 PEOPLE reports that Buscemi’s attack comes a month after his Boardwalk Empire costar Michael Stuhlbarg was struck with a rock in Manhattan. Following the March 31 attack, police detained 27-year-old Xavier Israel. That attack took place in Central Park, and Stuhlbarg reportedly chased Xavier out of the park after the assault. While Buscemi was punched, Michael Stuhlbarg was hit with a rock / Kerry Hayes ©EuropaCorp USA/courtesy Everett Collection As of May 12, no arrests have been made, NBC News reports. The outlet also reports that this attack is part of a bigger pattern still that has afflicted several pedestrians in New York from all walks of life. Women on TikTok have shared stories of being attacked while heading from classes back to their homes, or else while traveling to work, and other similar situations. As of May 12, no arrests have been made / Dennis Van Tine/starmaxinc.comSTAR MAX 2018 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED RELATED: Steve Buscemi Says He ‘Absolutely Has PTSD’ From Volunteer Firefighting On 9/11 Click for next Article The post 66-Year-Old Steve Buscemi Attacked While Walking Through NYC appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Dana Daly

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