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« on: September 29, 2022, 11:54:46 PM »
I've just finished reading Julie Andrews' autobiography, Home Work. No, Julie has no connection to DS, though having Mary Poppins as the governess to David and Amy is certainly intriguing. Julie was married to film director Blake Edward's, whose experience at MGM was not dissimilar to DC. Edwards was no neophyte when he was working at MGM. His films included Experiment In Terror, Days of Wine and Roses and The Pink Panther. His film, The Wild Rovers, was intended to be a western that was meant to be unconventional. But he ran up against executive James Aubrey, well known as The Smiling Cobra. Aubrey "turned Blake inside out and upside-down in his attempts to force him to cut the film to his liking." Aubrey took control of the film, edited out pivotal scenes and released the film. The Wild Rovers bombed.
For reasons that Julie could not understand, Aubrey offered Edwards a second film, which turned out to be The Carey Treatment. And the same thing happened. Edwards did not participate in the editing, knowing that Aubrey would butcher it anyway. Which he did. And The Carey Treatment bombed as well
One evening, while driving home and preoccupied with Aubrey's antics, Blake narrowly avoided hitting a passing jogger. The jogger was none other than James Aubrey
Would DC have run him down?