Julie Andrews: I Am Not Planning A Comeback

“‘What is happening is that I am re-creating a concert last year I did at the Hollywood Bowl and toured America with,’ she explained. ‘It’s with full symphony orchestra and singers. The first half is all Rodgers and Hammerstein music as it is related to me, so it’s footage and narration and storytelling.’ And, yes, a bit of singing from Andrews.”

Sundance Tries To Ditch Its Mainstream Reputation

“Year in and year out, the festival … is overloaded with undeniably non-commercial (and not necessarily artistic) films that don’t have a prayer of getting a theatrical release. But the accusation of worshiping Mammon is such a feared one that this year’s program guide fairly shouts on the cover, ‘This Is Your Guide to Cinematic Rebellion.'”

Folk Music Matriarch Kate McGarrigle Dead At 63

“[M]usic’s most multi-faceted family dynasty has lost the lynchpin which held it together through good times and bad. Alongside her older sister Anna, McGarrigle recorded a string of highly regarded folk-music albums.” She had a famously unsuccessful marriage to fellow folk singer Loudon Wainwright III; they “had a son, Rufus, and a daughter, Martha, both of whom inherited the family musical bug, albeit in wildly divergent ways.”

Erich Segal, 72, A Novelist And A Scholar

“After the success of Love Story, Segal neglected neither his academic, nor his popular, writing. … Despite his success he remained respected by colleagues and popular with students at Yale and Oxford, whom he charmed with lectures sometimes described as ‘living theatre’.” Not to mention that he wrote the screenplay for the Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine.