In December of 1989, a New York Times sportswriter wrote about basketball players and MAE WEST.
• • “SPORTS OF THE TIMES; Mae West, Wilt and The King” • •
• • Ira Berkow wrote: Charles Miron: Charles's dossier, beyond intimate details, contains a variety of careers, including art dealer, magazine writer, novelist and devotee of animals. He once owned a pet ocelot (visitors were taken aback to find in his apartment a jungle animal that he had described as a pet cat) and nurtured a greyhound named Misty (''a bag of bones when I found her in a pet store'') into a show champion.
• • Ira Berkow wrote: Also, Charles, standing six-foot-two, was an actor.
• • Ira Berkow wrote: During the 1950's, he sought a role in the road show of ''Diamond Lil,'' starring Mae West. He auditioned for the part of her Latin lover.
• • Auditions • •
• • Ira Berkow wrote: Charles continued: ''Mae West held auditions in her penthouse at the Wellington Hotel. I was young and nervous. She was lying on a couch in a green satin dressing gown. She was twirling her hair — golden blonde — with her finger. It was about 100 degrees that day. She said, in that sexy way, 'Most people's hair gets flat when it's this hot. Mine gets curly.' “
• • Ira Berkow wrote: “Oh, man! I got so weak in the knees I almost fell over,'' Charles recalled
• • Ira Berkow wrote: Charles read, Mae West listened, and she hired him, not as the lover, but for a smaller part.
• • Ira Berkow wrote: Charles Miron has been a man for all seasons: he claimed he had a walk-on part in a Mae West play, "Diamond Lil," on Broadway and on tour in the early 1950's, and he has been a collector of animals in his apartment, including a pygmy hippopotamus weighing 100 pounds. ...
• • Source: New York Times; published on Saturday, 2 December 1989.
• • On Thursday, 16 December 1937 • •
• • It was on Thursday, 16 December 1937 that Variety ran an article about Mae West's controversial appearance on NBC in the Garden of Eden Skit: "Educator calls radio program a home menace."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • By 1930 he was playing leads on Broadway, and in 1932 Paramount signed him to a five-year contract at $450 a week and changed his name to Cary Grant. In a year Cary Grant did bit parts in seven movies. Then one day Mae West got an eyeful of his sultry good looks. "If he can talk," she's supposed to have said, "I'll take him."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • About Frank Wallace, Mae West said: "They'll have me married to triplets next! ... Since there were no signatures on that mysterious marriage certificate, then Frank Wallace better dig up his divorce papers and find a signature on that."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on NYC’s Elevated Train mentioned Mae West.
• • “An Ode to NYC’s Elevated Train” • •
• • Joy Masoff wrote: Perhaps I rode the El from Williamsburg, its point of origin, to Cypress Hills—a neighborhood named for a cemetery. It was the end of the line in the late 1800s, both figuratively and, for some, literally.
• • Joy Masoff wrote: Jackie Robinson is buried in the Cypress Hills cemetery.
• • Joy Masoff wrote: Buoyantly breasted Mae West—America’s first sex symbol—sleeps here, too, along with Piet Mondrian, an abstract artist, whose primary-colored paintings shocked the art world. Perhaps Mae resurrected her famous line, “Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me”? Perhaps they slept together. . . .
• • Source: Untapped Cities; posted on Monday, 30 November 2020
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 16th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,600 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,627th 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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