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It was 1 March 1960 and MAE WEST was a special guest on "The Red Skelton Show" on TV.
• • "The Red Skelton Show" was an American variety show that was a television staple for almost two decades — — from the early 1950s through the early 1970s.
• • You can listen to this on "Mae West — On the Air," a CD that features several of Mae's rare recordings from 1934 — 1960 such as "The Red Skelton Show" — CBS-TV — 1 March 1960.
• • Born in Indiana, Red Skelton [1913 — 1997] was an American comedian who was best known as a top radio and TV star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and he went on to appearances that spanned from vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs, and casinos. During his career as a performer, he also pursued his interests as a serious fine arts painter.
• • Mae West biographer has a new title • •
• • Emily Wortis Leider, who did such a fine job with "Becoming Mae West," has a new actress biography in the pipeline. "Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood" will be published in September 2011 by the University of California Press [384 pp] this September. We wish Emily Wortis Leider well with her new release.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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This weekend Dr. Sketchy presented a new version of BECOMING MAE WEST — — starring Diamond Minx — — and advance tickets immediately sold out. 
• • What a concept. Here is their event blurb, word for word: Vaudeville Performer, Playwright, Broadway Sensation, Movie Star, Sex Goddess... In this Dr Sketchy's we pay tribute to the woman who became an icon simply by being herself! Diamond Minx will be modeling for this classic burlesque themed drawing class.
• • Unfortunately, we just received word that this sold-out happening took place on 5 September 2010 [yesterday] on Main Street in Vancouver.
• • Molly Crabapple, a New York City based illustrator, is the founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School. She explains: Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School is what happens when a simple question is asked — — why can't figure drawing be sexy? Part art class, part cabaret, join us for 3 hours of drinking, drawing and decadence!
• • BECOMING MAE WEST was neither the first nor the last artistic adventure for Molly and her followers. Find them online to learn about future engagements.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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In 1893, during the summer Mary Jane West was born in Brooklyn, a bellydancer known as Little Egypt created a sensation at the Midway Plaisance of the Chicago World's Fair. ...
• • And so begins Becoming Mae West, a fascinatin' 431-page bio by Emily Wortis Leider that is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. The Californian poet received rave reviews in The New York Times and elsewhere, bringing her 1997 hardcover [NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux] to many readers' attention.
• • Since then Becoming Mae West has been reprinted twice. It is available in paperback [NY: Da Capo; published 4 April 2000; 480 pages] as well as in a large-print edition in hardcover [Thorndike Press; January 2001; 912 pages].
• • To celebrate the book's tenth anniversary, here is an excerpt from the review printed a decade ago by Library Journal:
• • Emily Wortis Leider (California's Daughter: Gertrude Atherton & Her Times, LJ 11/15/90) traces Mae West's development from child performer to coltish shimmy dancer to the drawling, wise-cracking persona recognized today. The author's focus on West's early career allows her to examine significant changes in American culture as the population became predominantly urban and the new media of film and radio began encroaching on established forms of entertainment. Yet the heart of the story is West — — already a veteran performer with over 30 years' experience when she arrived in Hollywood. But once West honed her persona, she was reluctant to deviate from the successful formula, stifling her arresting creativity and originality. This combined with perennial censorship problems caused the decades-long break in her film career. Recommended for large public libraries and subject collections. ...
• • Reviewer: Marianne Cawley, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland
• • Source: Library Journal — — summer 1997
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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It was 1 March 1960 and MAE WEST was a special guest on "The Red Skelton Show" on TV.
