
LOS ANGELES — Julie Andrews was honored by the American Film Institute last week for a Hollywood career that couldn’t have started more supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-ly — with an Oscar-winning performance in a film that would become an instant classic: “Mary Poppins.”
Before the AFI Life Achievement ceremony, which airs at 7 p.m. Thursday night on TNT, the 86-year-old Andrews recalled landing her first major movie gig.