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The word was popularized in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, [4] in which it is used as the title of a song and defined as "something to say when you don't know what to say". The Sherman Brothers , who wrote the Mary Poppins song, have given several conflicting explanations for the word's origin, in one instance claiming to have coined it themselves ...
Critic Drew Casper summarized the impact of Mary Poppins in 2011: Disney was the leader, his musical fantasies mixing animation and truly marvelous f/x with real-life action for children and the child in the adult. Mary Poppins (1964) was his plum. ... the story was elemental, even trite. But utmost sophistication (the chimney pot sequence ...
Correspondingly, the word is "sometimes used as ugly slang for a black person". [19] Use of the derived term hotnot was explicitly proscribed in South Africa by 2008. [20] Accordingly, much recent scholarship on the history of colonial attitudes to the Khoisan or on the European trope of "the Hottentot" puts the term Hottentot in scare quotes. [21]
“The Untold Story of Mary Poppins: A Special Edition of 20/20” is produced by ABC News Studios and “20/20.” It comes from exec producer Matt Lombardi, senior EP David Sloan and “20/20 ...
A legit “Mary Poppins” bowed in 2004 in the West End and two years later on Broadway. It featured the Shermans’ songs from the film, plus added tunes by others. P.L. Travers, author of the ...
Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers' books of the same name along with all of their adaptations. A magical English nanny, she blows in on the east wind and arrives at the Banks home at Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, where she is given charge of the Banks children and teaches them valuable lessons with a magical touch. [1]
A spoonful of sugar! With maybe just a touch of strychnine. Oldsters, who were kids in 1964, may still recall the hoopla and hysteria around "Mary Poppins," released 60 years ago this August 27.
Mary Poppins (franchise) The franchise based on the fictional nanny. Mary Poppins (book series), the original 1934–1988 children's fantasy novels that introduced the character. Mary Poppins (character), the nanny with magical powers. Mary Poppins, a 1964 Disney film starring Julie Andrews, based on the books.