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Number 17 is MAE WEST on a list of "The Top 25 Bombshells" of the big and small screen that Fox News has assembled. Here's a snippet from their entertainment desk.
• • Fox411 explains: "With sexy stars like Christina Hendricks, Scarlett Johansson, and Halle Berry taking over television and movies, it seems that Hollywood has finally renewed its celebration of the voluptuous woman. In keeping with that celebration, Fox411 has decided to review decades of stars and find the greatest bombshells ever to grace the screen. Check out our list of the top 25 bombshells of the big and small screen, and then cast your vote. ..."
• • Fox411 will reveal the winner next week. When the poll was checked on 27 April 2010, however, Marilyn Monroe was leading, closely followed by Sophia Loren.
• • Check out the poll — — http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/04/26/fox411-battle-of-the-bombshells-poll-who-is-the-sexiest-screen-star-of-all-time/ — — and cast your vote for the one and only Brooklyn bombshell Mae West.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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The Florida Times-Union did an article on "The Evolution of Sex Symbols" — — and MAE WEST was accorded her due as a bombshell and a sexpot. Encompassing both male and female sexpot types, the writers' categories included: Bombshells and Sexpots, The sex bomb, Bikini Babes, Flappers, The red-hot lover, The femme fatale, The girl next door, The gamine, Heroin chic chick, The bimbo, et cetera.
• • What's the difference between screen queens who are "bombshells and sexpots" versus "sex bombs"? Indeed we wondered, too. Read on.
• • Sex symbol surveyors David Bauer and Laura Capitano began by taking "stock of the bodies and souls that have seduced our imaginations over the years."
• • Bauer and Capitano wrote: Fads and fashions have always played roles in determining sex symbols. While physical attractiveness is about the only timeless quality, remnants of the categories from the early part of the 20th century are with us today. Instead of fading away and being replaced by a new genre, many of them continued and new ones were added, so many of today's sex symbols are amalgamations of one or more of the categories from the past.
• • Here's how they define "Bombshells and sexpots" — —
• • Little did the advertising people behind Jean Harlow's 1933 film Bombshell know their words would be ageless when they called her the "blond bombshell of filmdom." Harlow ushered in a new category of sexy starlet: Usually buxom, often blond, and frequently full-figured. Others — — like Mae West — — and, to a degree, Harlow, established a genre of sexual, defiant characters.
• • Examples: Mae West, Jean Harlow, Fay Wray, Joan Blondell, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo.
• • Notice how their definition of "The sex bomb" — —
• • Although breathy, sensual, and screaming of sexuality, the Sex Bomb also had a clearly naive side. Although she would flaunt her beauty, she sometimes didn't even recognize her own sexuality.
• • Examples: Marilyn Monroe, Mamie Van Doren, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida.
• • Bauer and Capitano include Theda Bara and Clara Bow under their label "Vamps" — — and Norma Talmadge and Louise Brooks as "Flappers."
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• • Article: "The Evolution of Sex Symbols"
• • Byline: DAVID C.L. BAUER and LAURA CAPITANO
• • Published in: The Florida Times-Union — — www.jacksonville.com
• • Published on: 13 April 2008
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Tipping their hats to October — — newly annointed as "National Breast Cancer Awareness Month" — — the funsters at Film Threat listed "The 50 Best Breasts in Movie History." MAE WEST led their line-up of "the best breasts to ever grace the cinema screen." Also included were the Neapolitan knockers (size 38-D) of Sophia Loren, the million dollar mammaries of Jane Russell, and many more full-figured femmes.
• • The Film Threat Staff showed appreciation for the Brooklyn bombshell — — but why the heck did they pair their paragraph with a video scored to the song "Spooky"? Mae West was the ultimate in friendly, equally opportunity flirting. Ain't nothing spooky about that.
• • MAE WEST: IN THE BEGINNING • •
• • The woman who brought curves to the screen was Mae West, the taboo-breaking Brooklyn-born 1930s wisecracker who plied laughs while shaking her astonishing anatomy. Plenty of men wanted to come up and see her sometime, but Mae’s upper echelons actually helped saved lives in World War II. An inflatable life vest that created oversized flotation power was named the Mae West in honor of the star’s celebrated upper torso.— — Source: — —
• • http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=features&Id=1984• • Columnist: the Film Threat Staff• • Published on: 9 October 2007
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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