Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Mae West: Warren, Bert, Britney

Warren Buffett sometimes quotes MAE WEST's one-liner, "Too much of a good thing is wonderful."
• • Warren Buffet — — quipped one pundit — — is sensible enough to know she wasn't necessarily talking about him.
• • Born in Omaha, Nebraska at the end of August — — on 30 August 1930 — — Mae West fan Warren Buffett is an investor, a businessman, and a philanthropist.
• • Happy Birthday to the frisky financier who is 81 years old today.
• • Mae in August • •
• • In 1920, Mae had enjoyed seeing her idol Bert Savoy [1888 — 1923] in the musical comedy "The Greenwich Village Follies of 1920," which opened at the Greenwich Village Theatre
in August — — on 30 August 1920.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West wrote this: "A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald — — but if he has fire, women will like him."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • With tongue-in-cheek, New York culture maven Mickey Woods writes about the VMA hoopla and tries to pull your leg: (Though, at this point, Britney Spears has near- or full-kissed just about everybody at these things, so it maybe wasn't that surprising. We'll have to check the videotape, but we have a vague recollection that she tongued Mae West at the 1936 VMAs.) But the red carpet was notably restrained this year . . . .
• • Source: Article: "See All the Red-Carpet Looks From the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards" written by Mickey Woods for New York Magazine; posted on 29 August 2011
• • By the Numbers • • • • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2038th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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