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Mae West (Free subscription) | yesterday
MAE WEST clashed on the set of " Night After Night " [1932] while she was in a couple of scenes with veteran actress Alison Skipworth. • • The portly British-trained thespian , suspecting that the younger woman would steal the scene by injecting it with jolt of energy, told the director that Mae West's timing was off. • • "You forget," she declared, turning to West, "I've been an actress for forty...
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Joe Franklin has always enjoyed MAE WEST . During 1951 — 1999, when he was the host of television's first talk show " Joe Franklin's Memory Lane ," the king of nostalgia invited Mae West to be featured six times on his popular program broadcast from New York City on WABC-TV and on WOR-TV. • • In 2005, Joe Franklin enjoyed seeing scenes from Courting Mae West — — and this month he had a chance to get...
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Ronni Reich of BackStage came up to see MAE WEST at the Fresh Fruit Festival last week. • • Courting Mae West would not be without its excitement — — nor is LindaAnn Loschiavo's play of the same name, writes Ms. Reich. • • "Loschiavo adopts Mae's language with ease and intelligence. . . and the vibrancy of Mae's world [the Prohibition Era] comes across," writes Ms. Reich. • • "[Yvonne] Sayers's Mae...
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Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Not just a sofa, but a sofa with a heritage and a sofa you can use outdoors - the Barcelona Design Dalilips sofa. This is a modern-day update of Salvador Dali's famous red lips sofa, apparently inspired by Dali's painting...
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
MAE WEST 's gay play " Pleasure Man " had a $200,000 box office advance when it premiered at the Biltmore on 1 October 1928. The police raided the show, however, and shut it down the same night. Perhaps this was an easy target, since the theatre was on the same block as the precinct: 47th Street, west of Broadway. • • The infamous raid at the Biltmore is dramatized in the play " Courting Mae West...
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
MAE WEST move over, declared Ward Morehouse III. • • After seeing " Courting Mae West " at the Kaufman Theatre [123 East 24th Street, New York, NY 10010], Morehouse said: Please welcome another first-class clairvoyant to the swelling ranks of those who dazzle by channeling dead celebrities on the stage and screen. Resurrecting the iconic screen queen, Yvonne Sayers easily matches the achievements...
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
A scene from MAE WEST 's play " The Drag " will be performed in the heart of Mormon country at 7:00 PM on Monday 21 July 2008. • • Who gets to decide what works are suitable to be offered to the public? That is the question on the minds of the interesting people who run Utah's Plan-B Theatre Company. • • Plan-B's sixth annual fundraiser — — " And the Banned Played On " — — has gathered together several...
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The Blog Herald (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
The writer is… an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning. — Irving Stone Replace writer with blogger and you have a good description of what the job of blogging is. I’ve been collecting quotes since I was very young. One of my favorite books is the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, which just celebrated it’s [...]
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
During the early 1920s, MAE WEST spent time in the company of Mother Superior. • • A top-shelf drag queen, Mother Superior was a mainstay at the most popular gay nightspot — — Paul and Joe's on West Ninth Street — — famous for its drag cabaret. In coded language, Paul and Joe's (run by two Italian family men who lived in New Jersey) was careful to drop hints about being a place for pansies. These...
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Elephant Larry's Group Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
To mark the occasion of the Best Batman Movie Ever™ being released today, here's an ecstatic review of what is The Worst Batman Movie Ever™, Batman & Robin. Enjoy!
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
In March 1921, MAE WEST mailed her slim playscript " The Ruby Ring " to the Library of Congress. At 20 pages, this manuscript was more of an extended "sketch" than a play. Gloria, the female lead, is a man-trap who is able to pick the gents off with ease. • • Her parents were living in Woodhaven, New York during 1921 [705 Boyd Avenue] and Mae used this Queens/ Long Island address when she registered...
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The author of " Courting Mae West " discusses her a-Mae-zing journey taking MAE WEST through the Prohibition Era. • • For decades my imagination was embracing an armful of women’s history attached to the crooked elbow of 10th Street west of Sixth Avenue. A 19th century Iandmark [that now houses a public library] used to be a busy courthouse with a prison annex. The notable dames who passed through...
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
ELIZA ROURKE is one of the fictional characters in the play " COURTING MAE WEST ." Yes, the Irish characters do dominate because, in Mae West 's real life, she surrounded herself with people of Irish birth and descent. • • In her early 20s, ELIZA is an unpaid maidservant in the boarding house owned by her Irish Catholic parents on West Ninth Street in Greenwich Village. • • Raised by the schemer and...
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
New Yorkers: In case you didn’t know, the city is battling a whole new breed of vermin. New to us, I mean. Old to humankind. Pliny and Aristophanes both wrote about these pests. They feature in the ancient Tales of Bidpai. The oldest fossil dates them to the time [...]
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The charm of yesterday, the convenience of tomorrow is the slogan for the El Rancho where MAE WEST bedded down with the sandman. • • Columnist Amy Graff writes: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn stayed here during production of The Sea of Grass ; Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick were guests when they made The Hallelujah Trail . The list of Hollywood stars who bedded down at the El Rancho Hotel in Gallup,...
