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MAE WEST adored ragtime. She once told an interviewer about grooving very early to "the black man's sound." Whether she was imitating the sultry Shimmy she watched in a Chicago club or swinging to the latest jam she heard in Harlem, Mae's musical taste was in formation: "we copied it because it was the greatest. [Black people] had been developing it for years."
• • In 1928, she performed a rag that she especially loved onstage in "Diamond Lil" and its Hollywood counterpart "She Done Him Wrong" [1933]. The lyricist and composer of this song — — "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone" — — was Shelton Brooks [4 May 1886 — 6 September 1975], who published it around 1913. He was good friends with Mae's maid Bea Jackson; his nickname for her was "Hot Story Telling."
• • Born in Canada in the month of May, Shelton Brooks moved to Detroit in 1901 with his family; his parents were Native American and Black. His father was a preacher and Shelton and his brother would play the organ during services.
• • Surrounded by music, Shelton wrote his first big hit in 1910 — — "Some of These Days" — — using his own lyrics. He had already introduced the song in his own vaudeville act when Sophie Tucker's maid introduced both him and the tune to Sophie. The vaudevillian, who would eventually style herself as "the Last of the Red Hot Mamas," made this number her very own theme song.
• • "Walkin' the Dog" • • • • His 1916 instrumental tune "Walkin' the Dog" inspired a dance that first swept dancehall-crazed New York City, and then the rest of the country. That year, the variety act "Mae West and Sister" performed "Walkin' the Dog" as their grand finale.
• • Shelton Brooks died in Los Angeles in 1975 when he was 89 years old. He is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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It's said that the 1930s screen vixen MAE WEST was one of the first Westerners to understand 
karmic energy — — that she took all the lustful male thoughts directed her way and cultivated them like a garden.
• • Writing in The Sydney Morning Herald, Tim Elliott's article [published on 23 August 2008] actually was focused on his thoughts about actress Eva Mendes, who has "Raquel Welch hair" and who was recently cast in a remake of the classic 1930s motion picture "The Women."
• • How many think the newer version will trump the original? Raise your hand, please!
• • OK. And now we have a sweet little bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Flushed with success was MAE WEST.
• • In her book "Mae West on Sex, Health, and ESP" [New York: W. H. Allen, 1975], the screen queen held forth on her habit of starting each day with a daily enema.
• • Other celebrities have since discovered the ritual of colonic hydrotherapy, for instance, Demi Moore, Janet Jackson, Damon Wayans, John Lennon, James Coburn, etc.
• • Ever hear of a royal flush? Titled people, too, have gone on record about their enjoyment of a full body clean-out. Egyptian Queen Cleopatra endorsed this as well as Great Britain's Princess Diana.
• • The British tabloids announced that Diana spent more than $4,300 a year irrigating her colon. And in 1993, The Globe estimated that the Princess of Wales had her bowels swished out with 12 gallons of water 3 times a week. The hope was that she would keep slim by this "royal flush" — — and be released from ailments such as anorexia, headaches, allergies, fatigue, depression, and candida.
• • Lately, the 47-year-old musician Courtney Love [born in San Francisco on 9 July 1964] is claiming that her scrawny — — almost skeletal — — physique is due to “detoxing” through colonics. Do you believe it?
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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