Mae West: Ken Russell

British filmmaker Ken Russell had some nice words for MAE WEST.
• • His article for The Times — — "From robot to Romy: Ken Russell's top ten characters" — — cobbles together his impressions of screen queens and scene-stealers from his stream-of-consciousness meditation on the late and the great.
• • "Certain characters magnify their own peculiarities to become larger than life," he writes. "They are eccentrically mythic — — no matter how ill-fitting the part or plot may be to your life, the characters as written and acted insist on leaving the screen and following you home, like the Moon over your shoulder. ..."
• • And then he adds, "Before we leave the ladies, I must mention Mae West in She Done Him Wrong (1933), in which she plays Lady Lou, that saucy vamp of the Gay Nineties. The wiggle, the hourglass figure, the double entendres, the sideways look — — she remains one of the screen’s most enduring characters. ..."
— — excerpt — —
• • The Times [UK] — — News International Limited
• • Published on: 20 December 2007
• • Byline: Ken Russell

• • Born on 3 July 1927 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, Ken Russell showed his skill with many a screenplay, especially his lush cinematic prose poems made from the novels of D.H. Lawrence, films that beautifully captured perception just before it yielded to analysis. Bravo! Thank you, Ken Russell.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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