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."
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• • 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.
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Mae West: Nicodemus

MAE WEST had a special fondness for native New Yorkers, vaudevillians, and African-Americans and Nick Stewart was all of those.
• • Born In Manhattan [birthname Horace Winfred Stewart] during the month of March — — on 15 March 1910 — — Nick Stewart took the role of Nicodemus Stewart in "Go West Young Man" [1936].
• • He wed in 1941. Nine years later, the energetic character actor, with his wife Edna, founded the Ebony Showcase Theatre on LaBrea Avenue in Los Angeles.
• • If you saw "Song of the South" [1946], that was his voice bringing Bre'r Bear alive.
• • On the early 1950s TV series "The Amos 'n Andy Show," Nick Stewart (billed as Nick O'Demus) portrayed Lightnin', the slow-moving broom pusher who worked for The Kingfish.
• • The versatile showman from vaudeville and radio was one of the first inductees in the Academy of Television Arts and Science's new Archive of American Television.
• • The last surviving cast member from "Amos 'n Andy," Nick Stewart lived to be 90 years old and died on 18 December 2000 in Los Angeles of natural causes.
• • Mae West Earning Greenbacks for GreenLight • •
• • Robert Klara writes: But most attractive of all: A dead celeb won’t pull a Tiger Woods on you. “You know what you’re getting,” says David Reeder, whose L.A. firm GreenLight Rights handles the licensing for departed stars like Mae West and Johnny Cash. “Any negativity [about their lives] has long been digested by the popular culture—and they’ve withstood the test of time.” ...
• • Source: Article "I See Dead People" written by Robert Klara for Brandweek; posted on 14 March 2011
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• • Billionaire investor Warren Buffet suggested: “Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful” . ...
• • Source: Article "Warren Buffett: his best quotes" — www.telegraph.co.uk; posted on Tuesday, 15 March 2011
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Mae West: Bill Gates

"I won’t be quoting MAE WEST or trying to match his [i.e., Warren Buffet's] humor, but I will try to be equally candid," Bill Gates wrote — — beginning a letter, which was published online 26 January 2009.
• • Well, Mr. M—soft, we're sure that Mae would never have attempted to put words (nor anything else) in your mouth.
• • And Mae's preference was not for "soft" men nor "micro" males.
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Mae West: Warren

Warren Buffett sometimes quotes MAE WEST's saying, "Too much of a good thing is wonderful."
• • Buffet — — quipped one pundit — — is sensible enough to know she wasn't necessarily talking about him.
• • Born in Omaha, Nebraska on 30 August 1930, Mae West fan Warren Buffett is an investor, a businessman, and a philanthropist.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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