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Mae West: On Wilshire Blvd

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MAE WEST enjoyed browsing from her car window.
• • Mae West would relax in her limo — as salesclerks from Bullocks Wilshire department store brought a selection of designer dresses for Mae's inspection.
• • Joan Mitchell, 78, who worked there as a...

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Mae West: From Bad to Verse

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Dublin-born versifier John Jordan [1930-1988] waxed poetic about MAE WEST.
• • The mammary-minded academic, who lectured at University College [Dublin], was a leading light in the literary life of Ireland from the 1950s until his accidental death ...

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Mae West: California Call

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Can you picture MAE WEST as a nun?
• • Writers Bruce W. Gilray and Richard T. Witter could. Borrowing liberally from Agatha Christie's murder mystery "Ten Little Indians," they devised a campy take-off for movie buffs: " … And Then There Was Nun."...

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Mae West's Secret

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MAE WEST and the Italian accordionist Guido Deiro made beautiful music together for several years in variety. Her marriage to the Mediterranean keyboard king was one of the few secrets Mae kept from her mother Matilda.
• • Vibrant, jealous, well-b...

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Mae West: Signifying

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Here's an excerpt from Heather O'Donnell's academic article: "Signifying Sex"
• • American Quarterly - Volume 54, No. 3, September 2002, pp. 499-505 [Johns Hopkins Press]
• • Excerpt: . . . THE FEW BOOKS ABOUT MAE WEST THAT APPEARED AFTER HER DEAT...

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Mae West: Giving Lip

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Recently, NPR asked listeners to describe the voice of MAE WEST and other personalities.
• • One member of their audience likened the actress's voice to "overstuffed pillows covered in scratchy satin you can't wait to bury yourself in."
• • Anothe...

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Mae West: DOLL-icious

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Some adults love "living dolls" and others prefer the empty-eyed, stick-it-on-a-bookshelf kind.
• • Often MAE WEST's figure — — designed by Robert Tonner and dressed by Edith Head — — turns up in collections of people like Bettye Puckett.
• • This...

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Mae West: Wordsmith

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"Vegetables don't interest me! The only carrots I pay attention to are the ones in a diamond." • • MAE WEST
Come up and see Mae West every day online: view link

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Mae West: Witty Woman

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"Anyone who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot."
-- Mae West
Come up and see Mae West every day online: view link

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Mae West: Free on July 10

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Viva Vegas! The Las Vegas Sun has announced that MAE WEST will return to their torrid city this week when a local library's summer film fest focuses on Pre-Code classics. Admission is FREE.
• • On Tuesday 10 July 2007 movie-lovers can return to th...

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