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The name MAE WEST was on the tip of the tongue of a Supreme Court Judge in June.
• • NEW YORK, June 10 (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo expressed unreserved admiration today for Frank Wallace, an actor, because he wanted to be declared Mae West's husband. I admire him, said the justice, but I'm afraid there is nothing for me to do but dismiss the case.
• • Mae West's counsel contended she had not been properly served in the suit.
• • Source: Item in the Daily Illini (Illinois); published on Thursday, 11 June 1936.
• • On Sunday, 11 June 1989 in The L.A. Times • •
• • The L.A. Times wrote: "I'm No Angel" (Channel 5, Saturday at 3:15 a.m.): Mae West was never better as a carny dancer turned lion tamer who conquers high society and vamps Cary Grant as well; this is the one in which she ad-libbed (sic), "Beulah, peel me a grape."
• • On Friday, 11 June 2010 in The N.Y. Times • •
• • On Friday, 11 June 2010 in The N.Y. Times, reporter Sara Polsky described a 28-foot-wide Manhattan mansion recently listed for sale.
• • In the early 1930s, 266 West End Avenue belonged to actress Mae West. Beverly stayed on for awhile in Mae's home before it was sold.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Marilyn Monroe said this about Mae West: "I learned a few tricks from her — — that impression of laughing at, or mocking, her own sexuality."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • About Marilyn Monroe, Mae West said: "Why marry a ballplayer when you can have the whole team?"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about soccer players mentioned Mae West.
• • Gary Havlin wrote: The last match of the tour was played in New York at the insistence of Rangers as it was from there they were to set sail for home. The return match against Fall River Marksmen was expected to be a battle to end. The match was fittingly kicked off by London boxer and World Junior Welterweight Champion Jack 'Kid' Berg — — the Whitechapel Windmill who had an affair with Mae West. ...
• • Source: Article on soccer written by Gary Havlin for The Copland Road; published on Thursday, 20 June 2013
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A quirky new novel published in Spain focuses on the healing powers of MAE WEST. 
• • Written in Spanish by 63-year-old Eduardo Mendicutti, "Mae West and Me" [“Mae West y Yo"] was published in Madrid in September.
• • Reviewing the book in English, critic Catherine Mansfield had this to say about the plot: Felipe Bonasera is an openly gay retired diplomat in his early 60s who has decided to spend the month of July alone at his family’s summer home after being diagnosed with an unidentified life-threatening illness. As an amateur ventriloquist, Felipe is used to entertaining his friends with performances using puppets of golden age Hollywood film stars: Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, and Marlene Dietrich. Despite having left his puppets back in Madrid, the voice of Mae West travels with him; Felipe has named the initially unidentified cancerous part of his body — — at the end of the novel we learn that it is his prostate — — after the famously sharp-tongued actress, who keeps him company with her witty and often obscene comments on life during his self-imposed exile. ...
• • Catherine Mansfield continued: The novel is divided between two first-person narrators: Felipe and ‘Mae West’ — — Felipe’s prostate personified as the Hollywood star. The chapters alternate between these two narratives, with a new chapter for each day spent at Villa Horacia. In the sections narrated by ‘Mae West,' the narrative voice mimics the quick-fire, gossipy wit of the real-life actress in a very conversational style. She scatters her observations with anecdotes about other stars of her time such as Grace Kelly, Rita Hayward, Audrey Hepburn, James Dean, and Cary Grant. ‘Mae West’ compares everything that Felipe experiences with plots of films or the experiences of golden age actresses, and constantly interrupts Felipe’s part of the narrative with witty, wry, and sometimes obscene comments. The sections narrated by Felipe tend to be more reflective, with his mind regularly returning to his anxiety about his illness, which he tries to forget by becoming involved in village life and spying on his neighbours.
• • Catherine Mansfield added her own opinion of the narrative: The relationship between Felipe and ‘Mae West’ — — his glamorous imaginary friend — — is interesting. Instead of hating and fearing his cancerous prostate, Felipe gives it a name and an imaginary life of its own, and a strange friendship develops between them. By giving his prostrate a name and a personality, Felipe is no longer suffering alone. Whenever he gets frightened or morbid, ‘Mae West’ snaps him out of it with a witty comment, transporting him to a glamorous fantasy world of film stars and intrigue. It is a strangely affectionate relationship, with ‘Mae West’ calling Felipe ‘my man.’
• • Author Eduardo Mendicutti was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz) in 1948. In 1972 he moved to Madrid, where he obtained a journalism degree, and where he makes his home.
• • "Mae West y Yo" was published by Tusquets [September 2011]; the Spanish language paperback is 264 pages. Perhaps a very nice bi-lingual person will translate it and bring this novel to the USA for an American audience. We wish the author mucho éxito — — much success.
• • In November, Let's Remember Robert Homnas [1877 — 1947] • •
• • Mae West starred in "She Done Him Wrong," and Robert Homans was seen as Doheney.
• • Born in Malden, Massachusetts in the month of November — — on 8 November 1877 — — Robert Edward Homans was raised by sensible native New Englanders but somehow the crazy acting bug bit. He and his wife and young daughter spent time in New York City before heading to the West Coast. Cast in a silent film in 1917, the five-foot-eleven performer decided to pursue a screen career. Between 1923 — 1946 he racked up 385 featured appearances. His height and very serious look made him a natural for bit parts of uniformed men such as a fire chief, doormen, sailors, policemen, detectives, and assorted judges and lawmen. A useful skill was his ability to affect an Irish brogue and he was busy working on one picture or another until he was 69 years old.
• • Robert Edward Homans died of a heart attack on 28 July 1947 — — at the Motion Picture Country House in Los Angeles where he had been residing. He is buried next to his beloved wife in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
• • On 8 November 1933 • •
• • Published in NYC in The Nation [edition of 8 November 1933] was an article discussing the motion picture "She Done Him Wrong" starring the Brooklyn bombshell. William Troy wrote the lengthy piece: "Mae West and the Classic Tradition."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I heard the applause — — applause just for me, and I knew they really liked me, and I knew then there wasn’t any other place I ever wanted to be.”
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• • An article about Ho Chi Minh [1890 — 1969] mentioned Mae West.
• • Petri Liukkonen writes: Ho Chi Minh was born on Nguyen Sinh Cung in the village of Kimlien, Annam . . . . It is believed, that he lived in Harlem for a while. The American actress Mae West has told in an interview, that she met "Ho... Ho... Ho something" at the Carlton Hotel. "There was this waiter, cook, I don't know what he was. I know he had the slinkies eyes though. We met in the corridor. We — — well..." ...
• • Source: Article: "Ho Chi Minh" written by Petri Liukkonen for Amazon.com; posted in 2008
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2108th 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.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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New York, the same municipality that jailed MAE WEST for the crime of staging her gay plays in a theatre during the 1920s, became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage legislation on Friday, 24 June 2011. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law. Too bad Mae, a native New Yorker, is not here to witness this historic moment, however, scores of American divorce lawyers are already shopping for expensive foreign sportscars and penthouses on Central Park South.
• • Tale of the Tape • •
• • When Mae West was fitted for her costumes for “Myra Breckinridge,” the actress was then 77 years old. Nevertheless, her waist size was a trim 26 inches. How many movie queens merit a starring role after age 65 anyway? Greta Garbo retired from the screen at age 36 and Marilyn Monroe was dead before her 37th birthday.
• • It is interesting that a much younger starlet (who was five and a half inches taller than Mae) recently had her iconic movieland outfits assessed by the tapemeasure last week. Guess what? It's easier to be thin at age 29 than at 77. Marilyn Monroe was 29 when she starred in "The Seven Year Itch" [1955]. The 5' 5½" actress fit into costumes that brought her measurements to light — — bust size 34 and waist size 22. These items were scrutinized in advance of the sale of Debbie Reynolds’s extraordinary collection of Hollywood costumes, props, and cinema memorabilia.
• • Virginia Postrel covered the Debbie Reynolds auction held at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills. Bloomberg News reporter Virginia Postrel writes: Despite decades of effort, Debbie Reynolds never managed to find funding for the Hollywood motion-picture history museum she envisioned. ...
• • The coordination required to display the costumes for photography and publicity also brought new insights into the Hollywood figures of the past. Virginia Postrel explains: In fact, the average waist measurement of the four Marilyn Monroe [1926 — 1962] dresses was a mere 22 inches, according to Lisa Urban, the Hollywood consultant who dressed the mannequins and took measurements for me. Even Monroe’s bust was a modest 34 inches. That’s not an anecdote. That’s data.
• • Virginia Postrel comments on Mae West's measurements and others: The other actresses’ costumes provided further context. “It’s like half a person,” marveled a visitor at the sight of Claudette Colbert’s gold-lame “Cleopatra” gown (waist 18 inches). “That waist is the size of my thigh,” said a tall, slim man, looking at Carole Lombard’s dress from “No Man of Her Own” (a slight exaggeration — — it was 21 inches). Approaching Katharine Hepburn’s “Mary of Scotland” costumes, a plump woman declared with a mixture of envy and disgust, “Another skinny one.” The pattern she noticed was real. At my request, Lisa Urban took waist measurements on garments worn by 16 different stars, from Mary Pickford in 1929 (20 inches) to Barbra Streisand in 1969 (24 inches). The thickest waist she found was Mae West’s 26 inches in “Myra Breckinridge,” when the actress was 77 years old. ...
• • Virginia Postrel is a Bloomberg View columnist. Her article was "Auction Ends Myth of Plump Marilyn Monroe" written by Virginia Postrel for Bloomberg; posted on 24 June 2011
• • On 25 June 1926 • •
• • On this date Mae West entertained at a fundraiser held at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan.
• • Johnny Mercer [1909 — 1976] • •
• • In "Sextette" [1978], there is a very impressive rendition of "Hooray for Hollywood" by a large cast of performers. The iconic song was written by Johnny Mercer, who died in the month of June — — on 25 June 1976 — — from a brain tumor at age 66.
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• • New Zealand-born Pamela Stephenson is promoting her book "Sex Life: How Our Sexual Encounters and Experiences Define Who We Are." The blonde and buxom author is a former comedienne, TV star, and (lately) a celebrity psychologist. Her new release is a 500-page voyage through the way of all flesh, liberally punctuated and peppered by quotations from such sexual luminaries as Mae West, Mick Jagger, etc. We wish the author well as she navigates her global book tour.
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• • One section of Brooklyn that Mae West called home (briefly) was Greenpoint.
• • Kylie Jane Wakefield begins her article this way: Greenpoint/ Williamsburg is where Frank Serpico was shot in the face, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs got their start, and the site of one of the largest oil spills in America. The neighborhood was and is home to screen legend Mae West, a bridge named after a Polish general who saved George Washington’s life, and the only licensed dealer of radioactive waste in New York City. On Tuesday, June 21st, these were just some of the many fascinating facts that were incorporated into Neighbors Allied for Good Growth’s (NAG) fundraiser and trivia night. ...
• • Source: Article: "Trivia Night with NAG" written by Kylie Jane Wakefield for The Greenpoint Gazette (Brooklyn, NY); published on 23 June 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 1972nd 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.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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MAE WEST often lent her name to charitable causes and worthy efforts. On Saturday evening, 14 May 2011 there will be a "Celebrity Fantasy Fundraiser" for the Novato Theater Company in beautiful Marin County. Expect to see celebrity look-alikes such as Mae West skillfully portrayed by local actress Dani Innocenti Beem. NTC actors will also appear in character as Peter Pan, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley. The goal is to help finance the new NTC performing arts center.
• • WHERE: Rickey’s Restaurant, 250 Entrada Dr., Novato, California. Info: 892-883-4498. Tell them you heard about it on the Mae West Blog.
• • Photo: Dani Innocenti Beem as she appeared in "Guys and Dolls"• • Frank Rice [1892 — 1936] • • 
• • In "Belle of the Nineties" [1934] cinema staple and singer Frank Rice played the Best Man at a wedding — — so maybe some rice was thrown during rehearsals.
• • Born in Muskegon, Michigan during the month of May — — on 13 May 1892 — — the long-necked and balding funnyman was often the casting director's pick when a moment of comic relief was called for such as his rolling-eyeballs specialty (which was on display when he played the butler in a Laurel and Hardy movie).
• • After appearing in 131 productions, from playful shorts in 1912 to meatier bits by the 1930s, Frank Rice died prematurely at age 43 of complications ensuing from hepatitis and nephritis. He was in demand and working right up to the end in Los Angeles, when he breathed his last on 9 January 1936 two years after working with Mae West in her fascinating screen role as Ruby Carter.
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • WMC — — researchers use these three letters to refer to Working Memory Capacity.
• • Science reporter Christine Marchello writes: "People differ with regard to how well they can control their emotions, and one factor that predicts it is non-emotional in nature -- it is a 'cold' cognitive construct," psych professor Heath A. Demaree explains referring to Working Memory Capacity.
• • Science reporter Christine Marchello explains: Participants were asked to rate their familiarity with a list of people and places. This list had 72 real items such as Mae West and hydroponics, as well as 18 fake items including Queen Alberta and plates of parallax. ...
• • Source: Article: "When Words Get Hot, Mental Multitaskers Collect Cool" written by Christine Marchello and condensed and reprinted by Science Daily; posted on 11 May 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 1929th 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.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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MAE WEST commemorates the passing of another great Hollywood sex symbol today.
• • Jane Russell 1921 — 2011 • •
• • Howard Hughes liked her measurements: 38-25-36. None of these curves came from silicone. Carrie Rickey writes: Like Mae West, Jane Russell had a way of making sex seem like healthy fun. "I like a man who can run faster than I can," she says in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." [Source: Carrie Rickey is the film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer; her column on Jane appeared on 28 February 2011.]
• • Another Mae Westian moment that comes to mind is Jane's quirky scene with the male Olympics gymnastic team, who dedicate themselves to exercising and posing as her character Dorothy Shaw sings "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?" Whenever bodybuilders appeared onscreen with Mae, however, the fellows snapped to attention.
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MAE WEST gets full chapter coverage in a new book-length study of a neglected motion picture genre — — the comedy.
• • "Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy" [Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 576 pages] is the work of Saul Austerlitz, a writer living in New York City.
• • According to a review by critic David M. Kinchen: From "City Lights" to "Knocked Up," Austerlitz examines American film from the perspective of its unwanted stepbrother, the comedy, and puts the comic titans of the present in the context of their predecessors. The chapters and short essays follow the connections that link Mae West to Marilyn Monroe and W. C. Fields to Will Ferrell. ...
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• • BOOK REVIEW: 'Another Fine Mess' — — Film Comedy Deserves More Respect and Saul Austerlitz Tries to Level the Playing Field
• • Reviewer David M. Kinchen
• • Published by: HuntingtonNews.Net [located in Huntington, WV 25701]
• • Published on: 2 December 2010• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Did MAE WEST "save" Paramount Pictures? Maybe — — and maybe not. A new eight-part program on TCM "Moguls and Movie Stars" will tell you she did, and that little Shirley Temple rescued Fox.
• • TV writer Hal Boedeker calls TCM’s epic “Moguls & Movie Stars” a "beautifully arranged scrapbook of Hollywood history that salutes hard-driven businessmen. In covering so much time — — 1889 to 1969 — — and so many people, this documentary isn’t especially deep."
• • Boedeker continues: But the seven-part series, which debuts at 8 tonight [i.e., 1 November 2010], is a fun, fast-moving overview of one of America’s greatest industries. Christopher Plummer reads the narration with obvious delight. The speakers include Sidney Lumet, Peter Bogdanovich, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Richard Zanuck, Gore Vidal and TCM host Robert Osborne.
• • Revelations about the screen stars will surely surprise many viewers. Did you know, for instance, that tough guy actor James Cagney briefly worked as a female impersonator and spoke Yiddish?
• • In his TV column, Boedeker has fun emphasizing some eye-raising quotes he spotted along the way. Example: Film historian Ian David Thomson says of Cary Grant, “You could not believe how insecure he was.” Thomson also calls attention to Clark Gable’s false teeth. And Film critic Molly Haskell says of Marilyn Monroe, “She’s America pretending to want sex and not wanting it at all.” . . .
• • “Moguls & Movie Stars” sounds entertaining and TV buffs will have a few weeks worth of episodes to digest.
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• • Article: "Moguls & Movie Stars’ studies Hollywood dreams and nightmares"
• • Written by: Hal Boedeker, TV blogger
• • Published on: Monday, 1 November 2010
• • Published by: The Orlando Sentinel — — orlandosentinel.com
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MAE WEST slept in Phoenix, Arizona — — in a landmark where an unquiet soul seems to roam the corridors.
• • Though the Hotel San Carlos has hosted many famous names including Mae West, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, and Clark Gable, its most notorious guest is the one said to still be residing at the hotel — — though she died more than 80 years ago. Leone Jensen was an actress who leapt from the rooftop in 1928 and guests have reported a woman's shape floating through the hallway and up the stairs that lead to the roof.
• • Built in 1928, it is a recognized Historic Hotel of America. Before the hotel was built, however, the land was the site of Phoenix's first elementary school, which might explain why guests report hearing children laughing and bouncing a ball in the basement. The hotel also receives complaints about kids making too much noise, even when no children are at the property. There have also been reports of sinks turning themselves on and off, doors opening or closing for no apparent reason, and furniture moving when nobody is inside of a room.
• • During weekends in October, November, and December the hotel conducts ghost tours for hotel guests and non guests that gives special access to parts of the hotel that are typically closed to the public.
• • Where: Hotel San Carlos, 202 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, 85004.
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If there is a compendium about motion picture comedy, then it must include the great comedienne MAE WEST — — and this new title discusses her unique contribution with well-shaped language.
• • A critique of ANOTHER FINE MESS: A History of American Film Comedy by Saul Austerlitz [Chicago Review, 512 pages] was spotted in The Boston Globe. A portion appears below.
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• • Reviewer James Sullivan writes: Film comedy, Woody Allen once claimed, is harder to produce than drama. Still, the perpetually unsatisfied director was convinced that comedy is “less valuable than serious stuff.’’
• • In “Another Fine Mess,’’ a survey of the most significant artists — — yes, artists — — to make us laugh at the movies, from Charlie Chaplin to Will Ferrell, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz takes rigorous exception to Allen’s line of thinking. Addressing sexual, racial, economic, or political tensions, comedy has always helped its audience sort through the vagaries of the way we live now. Slapstick, screwball or spoof, comedy serves a function.
• • “We turn to drama to experience a heightened version of the world as we know it — — life, puffed up,’’ writes the author. “Comedy releases all that hot air; our laughter is a bemused acknowledgment of our own collective foibles and inadequacies.’’
• • Perilously, Austerlitz set for himself the task of identifying the 30 most representative comic figures in Hollywood history. Many are obvious — — Mae West, Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, the Marx Brothers, Peter Sellers. Others, such as Dustin Hoffman, a dramatic actor who has done lots of comedies, or Judd Apatow, the director of a recent spate of ribald, dude-centric cash cows, might need a little splainin’.
• • But the writer, who contributes occasionally to the Boston Globe, and whose first book was a history of the music video, makes his case as deftly as Groucho lanced metaphorical balloons. W.C. Fields, the master of the withering aside, was in his early silent-film appearances “a juggler performing with one hand tied behind his back,’’ the critic observes. And if Preston Sturges, director of the classic comic testimonial “Sullivan’s Travels,’’ gave frequent leading man Joel McCrea the power to bend “the world to his will,’’ McCrea’s successor, the “pint-sized neurotic’’ Eddie Bracken, “could hardly convince his own extremities to comply.’’
• • Austerlitz notes that his biographical chapters are intended to create a conversation among comedy’s most influential practitioners. Arranged in rough chronological order, the effect is cumulative. Mae West’s brazen sexuality primps the pillow for Marilyn Monroe’s bombshell self-awareness; unlikely bedfellows Jerry Lewis and Richard Pryor somehow manage to conceive Eddie Murphy. ...
• • ... The author would not be the first to linger over the genius of Chaplin’s beloved Tramp, or the directors Ernst Lubitsch and Billy Wilder, or Cary Grant’s canny subversion of his own good looks. “If Mount Rushmore were dedicated to comedians instead of statesmen,’’ he suggests, “Grant would have found himself climbing across his own face in ‘North By Northwest.’ ’’ ...
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• • Book Review: "Great film comics help us live with ourselves"
• • By: James Sullivan
• • Published in: The Boston Globe — — boston.com
• • Published on: 14 September 2010
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Born a brunette in Brooklyn, MAE WEST slowly migrated to the silver screen's more desirable honey hues (during an era when motion pictures were shot in black and white). Have you ever noticed that the Empress of Sex has not been dumped into the same unflattering "dumb blonde" category where Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield wound up?
• • Reporter Jojo Moyes writes: There is a glowing list of movie stars who have not exactly had to struggle against the dictates of their hair colour: Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, and Grace Kelly to name a few. I’d quite enjoy the spectacle of watching someone trying to tell Dame Helen Mirren that she was seen as lightweight. And I would venture that Meryl Streep’s blondeness has been an irrelevance to her stellar career. She is celebrated for what she is: a smart, talented, actress who has made wise choices. ...
• • Letters about being blonde can be sent to dtletters@telegraph.co.uk (for The Daily Telegraph).
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• • Article: "What's up, blondie? Mariella Frostrup claims that blondes are subject to Fifties-style sexism. But Jojo Moyes argues it’s what you do with your hue that counts."
• • By: Jojo Moyes
• • Published on: 18 August 2010
• • Published in: The Daily Telegraph — — www.telegraph.co.uk• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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