In the Los Angeles Times, Matthew DeBord offers what amounts to a promotional puff piece on Julie Andrews ("that bold Andrews sexiness, maternal and theatrical at the same time") and her autobiographical tome Home: A Memoir of My Early Years. (According to DeBord, this Sunday it'll land on the No. 1 spot among hardcovers tracked by the New York Times.)
The article, does, however, offer a couple of good quotes, the second of which is sexy, maternal, theatrical, and addictive at the same time:
"The success of the book has been dreamlike. But I've had a fairly acute shyness and reserve all my life, and now I've said to myself, 'Oh, my God, I've got to talk about it!'"
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"'To describe now what theater means to me, and what the work feels like, is difficult . . . it is to do with the joy of being a vessel, being used, using oneself fully and totally in the service of something that brings wonder. If only one could experience this every night. It is as great as sex . . . that moment before climax. It is as overwhelming as the mighty ocean. As nurturing as mother's milk to an infant. As addictive as opium."
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