The hills are alive with the sound of music.
Posted on 05/21/2006 1:55:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Singer and actress Julie Andrews will be in San Francisco Monday along with composer Marvin Hamlisch for a fundraiser for stem cell research.
Andrews and Hamlisch will bring along a supporting cast of Broadway performers for "Reach for Tomorrow, Research Today, which will raise money for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
The event begins with a black-tie dinner at San Francisco's City Hall. Tickets range from $1,500 to $10,000.
Andrews, 70, is best known for her roles in "The Sound of Music" and "Mary Poppins." She's appeared in recent years on the big screen in "The Princess Diaries."
Andrews' singing career ended after a 1997 throat operation that went wrong, reducing her four-octave voice to a few bass notes.
Her most recent project is a new book written with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. It's their seventh collaboration. The new book is about a mouse-sized Broadway theater underneath a human-sized Broadway theater. All the mouse characters are named after famous characters in Broadway musicals.
Correction: she is still an actress, but no longer a singer.
Thus she is no longer a singer.
I hope its stem cells and not embryonic cells she's touting.
The hills are alive with the sound of music.
I expect she'll be appearing with the Oak Ridge Boys now.
"I hope its stem cells and not embryonic cells she's touting."
Me too.
However, there is not much resistance at all to adult stem cell research, thus her support would seem to be unnecessary.
Too, she is a Hollywood denizen, which almost always means the worst........
CIRM is all about embryonic,, at this point, even the Kwang Woo Suk debacle and the Don Ho success story using adult cells won't stop some from the path of scientific madness they have chosen.
The sad part about Julie Andrews' singing voice situation is that, as I'm to understand it, the loss of range was avoidable. She had some sort of non-voice-related surgery and the surgeon nicked the nerve controlling the vocal cords. This is NOT unusual by the way; another friend of mine was also so affected during thyroid surgery. Avoidable? Yes. The surgeon, in my friend's case, basically said he would have taken 'more care' to avoid the vocal cords nerves if he'd known that his patient was a singer.
Embryonic.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.