The fractious relationship between Walt Disney and P L Travers, the author who created Mary Poppins but despised Hollywood's saccharine portrayal of her magical nanny, will be dramatised in a new film starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson.
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The feud behind Disney's Mary Poppins to take centre stage (and a spoonful of sugar didn't help)
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks set to star in movie about writer's battles with Hollywood
Dick Van Dyke, 86, and his new bride – aged 40
Sunday 11 March 2012
Star married 'on the spur of the moment'
Disney composer Robert Sherman dies
Tuesday 06 March 2012
Robert Sherman, who composed classic Disney songs such as Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and It's a Small World (After All), has died in London at the age of 86.
Dom Joly: Judith Chalmers' powers work on my Canadian in-laws
Sunday 04 September 2011
I remember reading an article about major celebrities raking in the money by doing naff adverts in Japan which they thought nobody would ever see.
Dom Joly: This wasn't the rebranding of Britain I had in mind
Sunday 14 August 2011
When, last week, I wrote about Canadians and their view of Brits being not a little influenced by Mary Poppins, I urged us to beef up our PR. Little did I imagine that the country would take this so literally. Britain's image, as seen from over the Atlantic, has changed dramatically.
Sarah Sands: How the household broom restored our pride
Sunday 14 August 2011
When Norway wanted to show social healing of its deep wound, its citizens held up roses. Young Iranians tried and poignantly failed to bring freedom by showing hands painted green. America reaches instinctively for the Stars and Stripes in times of national trauma. And Britain? Oh, we have the broom.
Newcomer Nominations, Various venues, Edinburgh
Friday 27 August 2010
Glorious gimps head race of the new faces
DVD: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (U)
Friday 16 July 2010
Did we need a sequel to Emma Thompson's nanny caper? Mary Poppins didn't even get one and it was a spoonful of sugar more inventive than this.
Philip Hensher: These little Toniblers set a fine example
Monday 12 July 2010
Notebook: Blair is such a hero to Kosovan families that they are naming their sons after him
Julie Andrews: She's climbed every mountain
Saturday 08 May 2010
Nearly half a century after the films that turned her into a screen legend, the star with the purest of voices has a new stage show. And if cruel fortune has stopped her singing quite like she used to, her place in people's hearts is assured.
Julie Andrews returns to the stage: 'A few of my favourite things ...'
Sunday 02 May 2010
To mark the singer's UK appearance this week, The IoS asked her fans to share their collections.
Amy Jenkins: Will powerful women please stop saying, 'I'm not a feminist, but...'
Saturday 24 April 2010
Gender Politics
Female Tory candidates standing for the first time in this election have made it pretty clear they don't want to be called "Cameron's Cuties".
A century of distinction: 100 women who changed the world
Sunday 07 March 2010
On the eve of the 100th of International Women's Day, the <i>IoS</i> brings you its guide to the 100 British women who, arguably, have done most to shape the world we live in today
Amy Jenkins: Martin Amis's failing is mine too
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Unless you're a Mary Poppins, godparenting is a very tricky business
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