• • Mae West at the "Golden Age of Comedy Festival" • •
• • Frank Cullen, the nation’s foremost vaudeville authority, was one of three writers who put together an enormous two-volume text — — "Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America" (Routledge, 1,350 pages). His current project is reviving the public's interest in a bygone cinematic era.
• • From June 27th — 30th, 2010, he helped choose the films for the "Golden Age of Comedy Festival" in Albuquerque, working in conjunction with Guild Cinema proprietor Keif Henley.
• • The festival’s second set of films — — “When Comedy Was King in Hollywood” — — is scheduled to screen in September 2010, and will include a number of great comedies starring such recognizable names as Mae West, W.C. Fields, and Laurel and Hardy.
• • WHERE: Guild Cinema, 3405 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque, NM; (505) 255-1848.
• • Is that a gun in your pocket — — or is that Mae West? • •
• • According to gun-fancier Franz Misch: Taste is in the eye of the beholder, as they say, and my instant reaction to the decorated Caspian-retro 1911 was "Mae West," . . . [Source: "Mae West as 1911" in American Handgunner Magazine | 01 July 2004 | Misch, Franz | Section: Letters to the Editor]. Can't top that, mister.
• • Where's Mae West When We Need Her? • •
• • Published in the July 2003 issue of Interview was a one-on-one with Camille Paglia, who told interviewer Ingrid Sischy: “When Mae West was pushing the envelope in the 1920s and getting arrested for it, her work was all about innuendo and ambiguity. She had a juicy, luscious, relaxed sexual maturity. She portrayed sexual relations as a warm, forgiving comedy. ...” [Source: "Where's Mae West When We Need Her" in Interview Magazine | July 2003 issue | Sischy, Ingrid].
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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