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It's time to wish MAE WEST's co-star Ringo Starr a happy birthday.
• • Born in the month of July — on 7 July 1940 — in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, Ringo Starr played the role of Laslo Karolny, a European movie director and the fourth of Marlo Manners's former husbands, in Mae's final film "Sextette" [1978].
• • During a radio interview with WENN [World Entertainment News Network], Ringo Starr revisited the "raunchy shoot" with the 85-year-old West. The former Beatle claimed that he was the target of advances from the screen siren when they worked together.
• • The mop-topped drummer was amazed by the cheeky sex symbol's advances — — especially because she was in her 80s during the film shoot and he was 38 years old at the time.
• • "Mae was a terrible flirt. She tried it on me twice. I didn't mind really." He laughed. "She said she was 85, her maid said she was 87, and George Raft, who appeared with us in the film, said she was more likely to be 94."
• • Ringo told the interviewer: "I'd like to know what she was on because I tell you she looked bloody fantastic." [Born in 1893, actress Mae West was 85 when Ringo met her.]
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West.
For the record, MAE WEST began making films in 1932 — — not the 1920s. 
• • Director Todd Stephens credits the screen queen with being his muse and guidepost. A recent article in the Sydney Star Observer, written by John Burfitt, offers Stephens's comments on his idol.
• • This is an excerpt from an interview by Australian columnist John Burfitt:
• • While filming Another Gay Movie, director Todd Stephens believed the project had an unexpected guardian angel watching over it.
• • For a film depicting a group of young gay men’s desperate efforts to lose their virginity, Stephens believed it is appropriate that guardian angel was the long-dead screen siren, Mae West — — the woman who introduced sex to the movies in the 1920s [sic], and scandalised Hollywood as a result.
• • Todd Stephens is a Mae West fan, and even has some of her old furniture in his apartment. But while he was filming Another Gay Movie, he discovered an even closer connection with West.
• • “She was one of my big idols as I was growing up, and a big influence on me,” Stephens says from his New York home.
• • “When I was living in Hollywood while making this film, I discovered I was living right next door to where Mae lived for 50 years, and that was a total coincidence. I liked that as this is a very sex-positive movie, and certainly Mae was into that.
• • “She never apologised for exploring sexuality on screen, and neither do I with this film. So I felt I had her spirit watching over me the entire time I was making this film.”
• • . . . Another Gay Movie, which played at the recent Mardi Gras Film Festival, will be released on DVD 18 April 2007.
• • Source: Sydney Star Observer — — /www.ssonet.com.au — — Issue 860
• • Published on 29 March 2007• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • defending herself at Criminal Court for writing a gay play • • October 1928NYC
Mae West.
