Mae West (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
When it comes to a spirited exchange, MAE WEST was quick on the draw. But never more than a minor league social drinker, Mae is minimally quoted when it comes to mixology. However, a meditation on the venerable martini,brought the Brooklyn bombshell to the lips of one Canadian columnist.Mesmerized by the martini references in motion pictures, Michael D. Reid writes: The word itself snaps with sophistication,...
The Candy Pitch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In our ongoing Q&A series --"The Candy Gram"-- we ask the same quirky questions of burlesque's various performers. If you want to be added to the mix, drop Tanya Cheex a line at t.cheex AT gmail DOT com. Today, say hello La Cholita What is your hometown? Los Angeles land of the fabulous, glamorous and occasional train wreck How long have you been interested in burlesque/performing? I...
Mae West (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
MAE WEST, updated daily, has encountered a computer bug. We hope to be back online soon. Come up and see Mae . .
planet mondo (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Did you have a favourite firework? I'm wobbling between the Roman Candle and Traffic Light. Not the Catherine Wheel though, which for all it's hi-propulsion promise, typically stopped-started, spluttered about-a-bit at random angles, eventually fizzling out for a flat tyre finale. And What's your preference for bonfire fun? The organised outdoor event, with it's inevitable delays (concerned silhouettes...
MY HAPPY ENDING (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
When Insults Had Class These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. ^ I found these posted on facebook. Quite interesting, since I'm learning about most of these people in history ATM! "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with...
Mae West (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Imagine how MAE WEST felt the morning after. After all that effort, on 4 November 1931 the final curtain came down at the Royale Theatre on The Constant Sinner" starring and written by Mae West. • • Set in Harlem, the play opened on 14 September 1931 and ran for 64 performances on Broadway. • • The Great Depression increased the number of jobless adults and, by 1931, the unemployment...
Mae West (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Since MAE WEST 's play " Sex " is back on the boards — — giving Mae-mavens one more reason to be thankful in November — — some Chicago columnists and bloggers have mentioned the production in passing. • • " Feast of Fun " blogger Marc Felion wrote: The Prologue Theater Company has brought Mae West's play, " Sex ," back to life, staging...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
RIP John Kenley. Anorak's Man In LA remembers the cross-dressing, hermaphroditic theatre star being ignored by the big media...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
He was "renowned for taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson and Burt Reynolds."...
Mae West (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Born under the sign of Leo, MAE WEST had her shining moments as a cougar. • • In her sassy pictorial, " Brief Moments in Cougar History " [ New York Magazine , 1 November 2009] Mary Kaye Schilling gives the Brooklyn bombshell her due, noting this: Mae West said, “I’ve been in more laps than a napkin.” Samantha Jones, meet your sassy, shameless ancestor. •...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Kenley ran a summer stock theater circuit in Ohio; Brodeur was an official at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach John Kenley
Inveresk Street Ingrate (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
One for the Party archives? Abstract propaganda front and centre in The Merry Frinks , a madcap comedy from 1934. And there was you thinking that the Hays Code was enforced in 1934 because of Mae West's single entendres and Joan Blondell showing a bit of thigh. How wrong you were. Jack, Harry and Daryl apparently viewed Utopian Socialism as more dangerous than Upton Sinclair during this time period....
Mae West (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
MAE WEST gave her 32-year-old lover a bit part in " Every Day's a Holiday " [1937]. • • Born to a poor family and bred in a tough section of East Boston, John Indrisano was determined to make money and make something of himself one day. During a career that lasted from 1924 — 1934, he boxed as an amateur and then turned pro. • • His birthdate was 1 November 1905....
tabloid baby (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
If Wikipedia and other sources are to be believed, the New York Times left some very colorful-- and essential facts out of its obituary for Midwest theatre impresario John Kenley.The Times notes that Kenley, who died October 23rd at an astonishing 103, made his name "taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson...
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