MAE WEST enjoyed copious coverage in Time Magazine ― some of it positive such as her 1978 interview with Gerald Clarke. This is Part 1 of 15 segments.
• • "Show Business: At 84 Mae West Is Still Mae West" • •
• • In May 1978, Time Magazine printed these felicitous remarks by resident movie critic Gerald Clarke:
• • Gerald Clarke wrote: And her new movie, “Sextette,” is so bad it's good.
• • Gerald Clarke wrote: Opening her mouth so wide that the pink of her gums shows, Mae West taps her teeth with her fingernails.
• • Gerald Clarke wrote: "See that," she says proudly. "All my own [sic]. Not a false one there."
• • Gerald Clarke wrote: Then, holding out her arms so that her wrists protrude from her jacket, she adds, "I've never had any face lifts either. You can tell by my hands and wrists. They can't operate on your hands. I've never had anything done, and I look the way I did when I was 22."
• • Mae West: The lady will be 85 this summer • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Time Magazine; issue dated for Monday, 22 May 1978.
• • On Monday, 22 August 1932 • •
• • On this date production began for the motion picture "Night After Night," which offered Mae West her first chance to be in pictures.
• • On Saturday, 22 August 1936 • •
• • Elizabeth Yeaman wrote an article, "Mae West to Abandon Corsets, Wear Modem Apparel in New Picture." Her piece was published in Hollywood Citizen-News on Saturday, 22 August 1936.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West, the blonde, diamond-studded, wisecracking, sashaying vamp from Brooklyn who lit up the stage in the 1920's and the screen in the 30's with a special brand of gender-bending sexuality, still defies categories and refuses to be conscripted into any one ideological army.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "After a girl has put a lot of time and effort into getting her man, she's got a right to brag about it."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about mentioned Mae West.
• • A scandal magazine mentioned Mae West.
• • "Mae West Linked to Negro Boxer" • •
• • Los Angeles. Aug. 21 — — Defendant Fred Meade testified at the Confidential Magazine libel trial today that the late Negro boxer Chalky Wright gave him a statement "that detailed the year he spent living in the apartment with Mae West." Meade also testified a band leader named Daniel Terry gave him the story of a tryst in the Lake Tahoe woods with singer Dorothy Dandridge. ...
• • Source: Associated Press news rpt in The Morning Herald (Hagerstown, Maryland); published on Thursday, 22 August 1957
• • 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 18th anniversary • •
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• Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during
these past eighteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors.
And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 5,000 blog posts.
Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,064th 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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