Posted on 03/05/08
A spoonful of sugar - and two of salt
HOMEA Memoir of My Early YearsBy Julie AndrewsHyperion, 339 pages, $28.95Before I began reading Julie Andrews's Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, memories of Pauline Kael's devastating comments on the actress in the nauseatingly saccharine Sound of Music bubbled in my mind: "the clean, scrubbed look and the unyieldingly high spirits; the good sport who makes the best of everything; the girl who's so unquestionably good that she carries this one dimension like a shield. ... Sexless, inhumanly happy, the sparkling maid, a mind as clean and well brushed as her teeth."
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