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MAE WEST holds her own in Liverpool at the new Hard Days Night.
• • Calling 2008 "the year that Liverpool is Europe's Capital of Culture," The London Telegraph welcomed the new Beatles-themed boutique hotel in the heart of the city, which took more than two decades of planning and debate before it opened.
• • Telegraph reporter Max Davidson gushed a bit, spinning it as a place "that oozes class and sophistication. Like Malmaison properties, it offers gracious 21st-century urban living — — high ceilings, clean surfaces, all the mod cons and gizmos you could ask for — — at a price that is some way short of exorbitant. Enthusiastic staff, mostly with ripe Liverpudlian accents, are a bonus. ... Money can't buy you love, but £650 will buy a night in the Lennon Suite, ..."
• • Though the "location, in a chunky old commercial building in the Cavern Quarter, is uninspiring," wrote Davidson, he found elements to suit him.
• • According to Max Davidson: "Dinner in the Blake's restaurant is good rather than exceptional. The food is modern English with twists (with items such as Knickerbocker Glory, you wonder whether it needed a few more twists). It is another delightfully furnished space, with pride of place occupied by photographs of the celebrities who featured on the iconic Sergeant Pepper cover designed by Sir Peter Blake. What an odd, eclectic assortment they were — — from Jesus to Oscar Wilde, from Jung to Marlon Brando, from Mae West to Aldous Huxley."
• • Davidson explains: "But when you see them displayed like this, properly contextualised, you realise the richness of the cultural roots the Beatles were tapping. They were far, far more than just a group of likely lads from Liverpool."
• • Visit online or phone: The Hard Days Night Hotel [www.harddaysnighthotel.com — — 0151 236 1964].
• • Visit The London Telegraph — — www.telegraph.co.uk/ — — to learn more about Hard Days Night and see the photographs.
• • 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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Here in New York, NY — the hometown of MAE WEST — the Metropolitan Opera’s 2006–07 season just ended and critics have begun to throw darts.
• • Designer Mark Morris showed his affinity for pop culture in his staging of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice [one of the seminal works in the opera canon] by putting Mae West in the chorus. Yes!
• • Orfeo ed Euridice tells the Greek myth of musician-poet Orpheus, who is grief-stricken after his bride Euridice dies. Pitying Orpheus, Jove invites him to retrieve her from the underworld on one condition: Orfeo may neither look at Euridice nor explain anything as he leads her back to earth, however, he does look back and she dies again.
• • Gluck’s rendering uses three individual characters in the opera — Orfeo, Euridice, and Cupid — along with the all-important chorus.
• • Arts reviewer Heather MacDonald writes that "it was difficult to experience the work’s full profundity with the chorus tricked out like Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band." MacDonald describes the scene: Arrayed on three rows of a large industrial scaffold, each chorus member was costumed and made up as a historical figure, no matter how banal. Next to Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi were MAE WEST, Liberace, John Lennon, Hiawatha, and Mao. The chorus was supposed to be a “witness to history,” according to the designers, but the effect was as tacky as a wax museum. It is inconceivable that Mae West would sing Gluck’s finely-wrought dirges.
• • Occasionally, Mark Twain, Karl Marx, or other animatronic wonders would jerk out their lower arms, matching the spasmodic movements of the dancers. ...
• • Source: The City Journal [Spring 2007 issue]
• • Byline: Heather MacDonald
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Various publications have jumped on the memoir of a former co-star of MAE WEST, namely Alice Cooper [born Vince Furnier nearly 60 years ago]. The title is Alice Cooper, Golf Monster; the byline reads 'by Alice Cooper with Keith and Kent Zimmerman" [Crown Publishers].
• • The rock musician's addictive nature, fortunately, did not get him hooked on drugs. He became an alcoholic instead. Battling the booze, despite stints in rehab, led him to a discovery: substitute a harmful habit with a harmless hobby: golf. The book details his mania with the links.
• • To stave off boredom in the reader, however, the usual bold-faced names buzz around the text not unlike mosquitoes on an 18-hole green. Before he embraced a healthier lifestyle, the rocker used to hang out with John Lennon and Harry Nilsson, drinking himself under the freeway and waking up in the morning vomiting blood. Because of golf, he now rubs elbows with presidents, Hollywood icons, and John Daly.
• • The show-off side of the 146-lb Cooper spews out the names of his eclectic group of celebrity chums. He has socialized with the likes of Groucho Marx, Salvador Dali, and Fred Astaire, supposedly. He claims he was great buddies with late British comic actor Peter Sellers. And he spurned the amorous advances of a fresh Raquel Welch and a well-seasoned Mae West.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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MAE WEST didn't think she belonged in a lonely hearts club. 
• • New England journalist James Sullivan muses on the events of forty years ago that reunited Mae with her Salvation Army musings, dramatized in "Diamond Lil," and her encounter with Britain's fab foursome in March of 1967.
• • James Sullivan writes: It was 40 years ago . . . today. On the evening of March 30, 1967, four young musicians gathered with a large group of artists and assistants in a London studio to shoot a photograph for an album cover. The album, to be called "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," would, of course, become synonymous with the creative revolution of the 1960s. The cover artwork, a photo-montage of the Beatles posing for photographer Michael Cooper among a gallery of several dozen celebrities ("People We Like," as the crew took to calling them) was itself a radical departure, with its elaborately designed "gatefold" layout, bonus insert, and printed song lyrics -- the latter a first in pop.
• • Behind the real-life Beatles, who were dressed in candy-colored military-band costumes and sported newly cultivated mustaches, the "crowd" was actually made up of wax figures and cardboard cutouts of singers, actors, writers, artists, athletes, and critical thinkers -- some of them (Marlon Brando, Bob Dylan) as familiar as the Beatles themselves, others (Bobby Breen?) now as obsolete as a monaural recording.
• • The cover concept was originally conceived by Paul McCartney and London art dealer Robert Fraser as a tableau for a fictitious Salvation Army-style brass band. But in the hands of its designers, then-husband-and-wife Pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth (who ended up choosing more than half of the faces), it became a droll satire of celebrity and influence. While many of the famous figures in the gallery were heroes to the Beatles, others were chosen out of sheer, Beatlesque audacity. The group's record company, EMI, rejected three of John Lennon's suggestions -- Jesus, Gandhi, and Hitler.
• • Inspired by Victorian-era composite photographs, Dada collage artists, and Pop artist Richard Hamilton's surreal cut-and-paste suburban scenes, the "Sgt. Pepper" cover has become a visual touchstone. Haworth, now living in Utah, still has the Grammy she and her ex-husband shared for the graphic design: "I let the children play with it," she says with a laugh. "The trumpet fell off, and the dog chewed on it. It's been destroyed in an iconoclastic way."
• • • • James Sullivan is a frequent Globe contributor and the author of "Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon."
Some of the "People We Like" on the "Sgt. Pepper" cover:
• • 1. Sri Yukteswar Giri: Indian guru, one of four chosen for the cover by George Harrison.
• • 2. Aleister Crowley: Notorious mystic, polymath, and drug user - - chosen, designer Jann Haworth says, by John Lennon.
• • 3. Mae West: "What would I be doing in a lonely hearts club?" she reportedly joked. Ringo Starr appeared in her 1978 film "Sextette."
• • 4. Lenny Bruce: By 1967, the Beatles shared some of the late comic's persecution complex.
• • 5. Karlheinz Stockhausen: Avant-garde composer who (though chosen by McCartney) once credited John Lennon as the crucial link between pop and "serious" music. . . .
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• • Source: Boston Globe - www.boston. com -
• • Published: 24 March 2007
• • Byline: James Sullivan
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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MAE WEST holds her own in Liverpool at the new Hard Days Night.
