As classy as the whole thing looked on screen, Julie Andrews has revealed that “a few Anglo-Saxon swear words” were used during a botched harness stunt during the filming of “Mary Poppins.”

Andrews appeared on Stephen Colbert's “The Late Show” in the US when she revealed the near-catastrophic incident.

“There was a very dangerous day at the very end of filming when I was in this unbearably painful harness,” she said.

“And I spent the longest time hanging up there with the umbrella.

(Source: CBS)

“I thought I felt the wire give way and fall about six inches. I was nervous… and very tired.

“So I called down and said, 'Excuse me, if you let me down, could you let me down very gently because I feel like I'm slipping and I just don't feel very safe up here.'”

And what happened next?

“I fell on the stage. I did. And then there was a terrible silence for a minute and I must admit that a few Anglo-Saxon swear words flew from my soul.”

Arguably the most classic Disney musical, it came out 53 years ago when Andrews – now 83 – was 28.

The sequel, “Mary Poppins Returns,” is planned for 2018, with Emily Blunt in the role of the magical nanny.

At her side are Ben Whishaw as the adult Michael Banks, Emily Mortimer as his adult sister Jane, as well as Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Dick Van Dyke, who of course played chimney sweep Burt in the original, will also have a cameo appearance.

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FILE – Joe Wurzelbacher, also known as “Joe the Plumber,” laughs while talking outside of his home in Holland, Ohio, Oct. 16, 2008. Wurzelbacher, who was thrust into the political spotlight as “Joe the Plumber” after questioning Barack Obama about his economic policies during the 2008 presidential campaign, has died, his son said Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. He was 49. His oldest son, Joey Wurzelbacher, said his father died Sunday, Aug. 27, in Wisconsin after a long illness. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero, File)

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher, who was thrust into the political spotlight as “Joe the Plumber” after questioning Barack Obama about his economic proposals during the 2008 presidential campaign, and who later forayed into politics himself, has died, his son said Monday. He was 49.

His oldest son, Joey Wurzelbacher, said his father died Sunday in Wisconsin after a long illness. His family announced this year on an online fundraising site that he had pancreatic cancer.

“The only thing I have to say is that he was a true patriot,” Joey Wurzelbacher — whose father had the middle name Joseph and went by Joe — said in a telephone interview. “His big thing is that everyone comes to God. That’s what he taught me, and that’s a message I hope is heard by a lot of people.”

He went from toiling as a plumber in suburban Toledo, Ohio, to life as a media sensation when he asked Obama about his tax plan during a campaign stop.

Their exchange and Obama’s response that he wanted to “spread the wealth around” aired often on cable news. Days later, Obama’s Republican opponent, U.S. Sen. John McCain, repeatedly cited “Joe the Plumber” in a presidential debate.

Wurzelbacher soon faced intense media scrutiny and acknowledged that he didn’t have a plumber’s license, saying at the time he didn’t need one because he worked for small plumbing company owned by someone else.

Wurzelbacher went on to campaign with McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. But he later criticized McCain in his book and said he did not want him as the GOP presidential nominee.

His sudden fame turned him into a sought-after voice for many anti-establishment conservatives, and he traveled the country speaking at tea party rallies and conservative gatherings.

He also wrote a book and worked with a veterans organization that provided outdoor programs for wounded soldiers.

In 2012, he made a bid for a U.S. House seat in Ohio. But he lost in a landslide to Democrat Marcy Kaptur in a district heavily tilted toward Democrats.

Republicans had recruited him to run and thought his fame would help bring in enough money to mount a serious challenge. But he drew criticism during the campaign for suggesting that the United States should build a fence at the Mexico border and “start shooting” at immigrants suspected of entering the country illegally.

Wurzelbacher returned to working as a plumber after he gave up on politics, his family said.

Funeral arrangements were pending. Survivors include his wife, Katie, and four children.

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Associated Press writer Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this report.

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Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher, who was thrust into the political spotlight as “Joe the Plumber” after questioning Barack Obama about his economic policies during the 2008 presidential campaign, and who later forayed into politics himself, has died, his son said Monday. He was 49.

His oldest son, Joey Wurzelbacher, said his father died Sunday in Wisconsin after a long illness. His family announced this year on an online fundraising site that he had pancreatic cancer.

“The only thing I have to say is that he was a true patriot,” Joey Wurzelbacher — whose father had the middle name Joseph and went by Joe — said in a telephone interview. “His big thing is that everyone come to God. That’s what he taught me, and that’s a message I hope is heard by a lot of people.”

He went from toiling as a plumber in suburban Toledo, Ohio, to life as a media sensation when he asked Obama about his tax plan during a campaign stop.

Their exchange and Obama’s response that he wanted to “spread the wealth around” aired often on cable news. Days later, Obama’s Republican opponent, U.S. Sen. John McCain, repeatedly cited “Joe the Plumber” in a presidential debate.

Wurzelbacher soon faced intense media scrutiny and acknowledged that he didn’t have a plumber’s license, saying at the time he didn’t need one because he worked for a small plumbing company owned by someone else.

Wurzelbacher went on to campaign with McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, but he later criticized McCain in his book and said he did not want him as the GOP presidential nominee.

His sudden fame turned him into a sought-after voice for many anti-establishment conservatives, and he traveled the country speaking at tea party rallies and conservative gatherings.

He also wrote a book and worked with a veterans organization that provided outdoor programs for wounded soldiers.

In 2012, he made a bid for a U.S. House seat in Ohio, but he lost in a landslide to Democrat Marcy Kaptur in a district heavily tilted toward Democrats.

Republicans had recruited him to run and thought his fame would help bring in enough money to mount a serious challenge. But he drew criticism during the campaign for suggesting that the United States should build a fence at the Mexico border and “start shooting” at immigrants suspected of entering the country illegally.

Wurzelbacher returned to working as a plumber after he gave up on politics, his family said.

Funeral arrangements were pending. Survivors include his wife, Katie, and four children.

Associated Press writer Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, contributed to this report.

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Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy cabin in the Montana wilderness and spent 17 years conducting a bombing raid that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81.

Kaczynski was labeled an “unabomber” by the FBI and died at the medical center at the federal penitentiary in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokeswoman for the federal Department of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found lifeless in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8am, she said. A cause of death was not initially known.

Prior to his transfer to the prison’s medical facility, he had been held at the Supermax federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that roiled universities across the country. He admitted to carrying out 16 bombings in 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.

Years before the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax shipments, the Unabomber’s deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans shipped packages and boarded planes, and in July 1995 even virtually shut down West Coast air travel.

He forced the Washington Post, along with the New York Times, in the agonizing decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, which asserted that modern society and technology were becoming a sense of industrial society lead to impotence and alienation.

But it led to his downfall. Kaczynski’s brother David and David’s wife Linda Patrik caught the tone of the paper and tipped off the FBI, which has been searching for the Unabomber for years as part of the country’s longest and costliest manhunt.

In April 1996, authorities found him in a 10 x 14 foot (3 x 4 meter) plywood and tar paper shack outside of Lincoln, Montana, filled with diaries, an encrypted diary, explosive ingredients and two finished bombs.

An elusive criminal mastermind, the Unabomber gained many sympathizers and comparisons to Daniel Boone, Edward Abbey and Henry David Thoreau.

But when Kaczynski revealed himself to be a wild-eyed recluse with long hair and a beard who’d survived the Montana winters in a one-room cabin, Kaczynski struck many as more of a pathetic loner than a romantic anti-hero.

Even in his own diaries, Kaczynski came across not as a committed revolutionary but as a vengeful recluse driven by petty grievances.

“I certainly do not claim to be an altruist or to act for the ‘good’ (whatever that is) of mankind,” he wrote on April 6, 1971. “I act solely out of a desire for revenge.”

A psychiatrist who interviewed Kaczynski in prison diagnosed him as a paranoid schizophrenic.

“Mr. Kaczynski’s delusions are mostly haunting in nature,” Sally Johnson wrote in a 47-page report. “Key issues include his belief that he is being vilified and harassed by family members and modern society.”

Kaczynski hated the idea of ​​being considered mentally ill, and when his attorneys attempted to present a defense of insanity, he attempted to have her dismissed. When that failed, he tried to hang himself with his underwear.

Kaczynski eventually pleaded guilty instead of letting his defense team continue with an insane defense.

“I’m confident in my sanity,” Kaczynski told Time magazine in 1999. “I’m not delusional and stuff like that.”

He was definitely brilliant.

Kaczynski skipped two grades to go to Harvard by age 16 and had published essays in prestigious mathematics journals. His explosives have been carefully tested and come in meticulously handcrafted wooden cases that have been sanded to remove any possible fingerprints. Later bombs were inscribed “FC” for “Freedom Club”.

The FBI dubbed him the “Unabomber” because his first targets appeared to be universities and airlines. An altitude-triggered bomb he mailed in 1979 detonated as planned aboard an American Airlines flight. A dozen people on board suffered smoke inhalation.

Kaczynski killed computer rental company owner Hugh Scrutton, advertising executive Thomas Mosser, and lumber industry lobbyist Gilbert Murray. California geneticist Charles Epstein and Yale University computer expert David Gelernter were maimed by bombs two days apart in June 1993.

Mosser was killed at his home in North Caldwell, New Jersey on December 10, 1994, the day he was scheduled to pick out a Christmas tree with his family. His wife, Susan, found him badly injured from a barrage of razor blades, pipes, and nails.

“He was moaning very softly,” she said at Kaczynski’s sentencing in 1998. “The fingers of his right hand were dangling. I held his left hand. I told him help was coming. I told him I love him.”

As Kaczynski ramped up his bombings and letters to newspapers and scientists in 1995, pundits suspected the Unabomber was jealous of the attention being given to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

The threat to blow up a plane in Los Angeles before the end of July 4th weekend threw air travel and mail delivery into chaos. The Unabomber later claimed it was a “prank”.

The Washington Post printed the Unabomber’s manifesto at the urging of federal authorities after the bomber said he would renounce terrorism if a national publication published his paper.

Patrik had had an uneasy feeling about her brother-in-law even before seeing the manifesto, and eventually persuaded her husband to read a copy in the library. After two months of arguments, they took some of Ted Kaczynski’s letters to Patrik’s childhood friend, Susan Swanson, a private investigator in Chicago.

Swanson, in turn, passed it on to former FBI behavioral scientist Clint Van Zandt, whose analysts said whoever wrote it likely also wrote the Unabomber’s manifesto.

“It was a nightmare,” said David Kaczynski, who as a child idolized his older brother, in a 2005 speech at Bennington College. “I literally thought, ‘My brother is a serial killer, the most wanted man in America.'”

Swanson reached out to a corporate lawyer friend, Anthony Bisceglie, who contacted the FBI. The investigation and prosecution were overseen by now Attorney General Merrick Garland during a previous stint at the Justice Department.

David Kaczynski wanted his role to remain confidential, but his identity quickly came to light and Ted Kaczynski vowed never to forgive his younger brother. He ignored his letters, turned his back on him at court hearings, and in a 1999 draft book described David Kaczynski as “Judas Iscariot (who)…does not even have the courage to hang himself.”

Ted Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942 in Chicago to second-generation Polish Catholics—a sausage maker and a homemaker. He played trombone in the school band, collected coins, and skipped sixth and eleventh grade.

His high school classmates found him odd, especially after he showed a wrestler how to make a mini-bomb that exploded during chemistry class.

Harvard classmates remembered him as a lonely, skinny boy with poor personal hygiene and a room that smelled of spoiled milk, food, and foot powder.

After completing his graduate studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, he got a job teaching mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, but found the job difficult and resigned abruptly. In 1971, he bought a three-acre lot about 4 miles (6 kilometers) outside of Lincoln and built a cabin there with no heat, water, or electricity.

He learned gardening, hunting, tool making, and sewing, living on a few hundred dollars a year.

In the late 1970s, he left his cabin in Montana to work with his father and brother at a foam rubber products manufacturer outside of Chicago. But when a manager fired him after two dates, he started posting abusive limericks about her and wouldn’t stop.

His brother fired him, and Ted Kaczynski soon returned to the wild to continue his vengeful killing spree.

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The exhibition “In America: Remember” is inspired by an installation of more than 700,000 white flags by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, which was placed on 20 acres on the National Mall in Washington, DC in September.

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“Visiting the exhibition in DC was deeply moving and I want to bring that impact home to my district,” said Rep. Speier. “Suzanne Firstenberg managed to illustrate the extent of the pandemic tragedy.”

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The event will take place on Sunday lunchtime at Leo J. Ryan Memorial Park, 969 E. Hillsdale Blvd. in the foster city. Speier is led by Foster City Mayor Sanjay Gehani, Dr. Grace Firtch from Kaiser Permanente and Pastor Paul Bains from WeHOPE.

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A suspected burglar who snuck into a house chimney on Saturday died of burns after the homeowner unknowingly lit the fireplace, coroner officials said.

Cody Caldwell, 19, of Huron also died of smoke inhalation, according to Fresno County coroners.

Fresno County Police Department said Caldwell climbed the chimney to break into the house and got stuck. When the homeowner returned home, he lit a small flame in the fireplace, MPs said.

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The homeowner didn’t know Caldwell was in the chimney before starting the fire, MPs said.

After lighting the fire, the homeowner heard Caldwell’s screams. When the house went up in smoke, the homeowner tried to put out the fire.

Ten minutes later, Caldwell was still moving, breathing in the chimney.

The fire department was finally able to dismantle the chimney to get to Caldwell.

But by the time they got to Caldwell he was dead, the MPs said.

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The coronavirus husband who tore off his oxygen mask after hearing his wife died of the disease in another ward: Bill, 90, died just days after Mary, his 63-year-old wife

• Mary Dartnall, 90, stopped responding and went to the hospital in Southampton
• After initially things seemed to be better, Ms. Dartnall died a few days later
• Bill Dartnall took off his oxygen mask after learning of his wife’s death
• How to help people affected by Covid-19

By Henry Martin for Mailonline

Released: 4:50 AM EDT, April 29, 2020 | Updated: 11:09 AM EDT, April 29, 2020

A retiree with coronavirus died on the same day as his 63-year-old wife after she was refused treatment when he learned of her death.

Bill Dartnall, 90, took off his oxygen mask after learning of the death of his wife Mary, 81, who had also tested positive for the virus.

Mr Dartnall worked as a chimney sweep in Southampton for over 40 years and was also a noted beekeeper with his wife.

After Ms. Dartnall fell ill, she stopped responding and was taken to Southampton General Hospital, where she tested positive for Covid-19.

A few days later, her husband suffered a stroke and was admitted to the same hospital where he was found to have the virus.

The couple who lived in Millbrook were both treated for something called Covid-19 pneumonia.

Bill and Mary Dartnall at the hospital on March 17th before landing on the coronavirus ward

Bill and Mary Dartnall on their wedding day in November 1956. It was a devastating double tragedy for the couple’s two daughters, Rosemary and Ann

After initially improving, Ms. Dartnall deteriorated for the worse and died a few days after she was admitted.

When her husband was given the news, he refused any further oxygen and died five hours later.

It was a devastating double tragedy for the couple’s two daughters, Rosemary and Ann.

Rosemary said, “When he was told that Mom had died, he tried to pull the mask off his face and made it clear that he no longer wanted oxygen.

When Mr. Dartnall was given the news, he refused any further oxygen and died five hours later

Mr and Mrs Dartnell in their garden. According to the NHS England, patients have the right to refuse treatment

“Dad refused to wear the mask – we don’t know exactly why, but he didn’t want to continue.

“He continued to receive care and passed away peacefully in his sleep a few hours later.

“Dad probably wouldn’t have wanted to live without mum. They were very much a couple and it’s hard to imagine either of them without the other. ‘

According to the NHS England, patients have the right to refuse treatment.

The website states, “If you refuse treatment, your decision must be respected, even if it is believed that refusing treatment would result in your death.”

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