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New York City, Mae West's hometown (and mine), was a cauldron of smoke-fed fear and unimaginable horror on 11 September 2001. 
• • Innocent people, gathering inside the World Trade Center for peaceful purposes and/ or work-related duties, were blasted by madmen in the sky. Lucky were those who managed to get out of the North Tower or the South Tower before these iconic skyscrapers collapsed in flames.
• • The United States was changed forever on that date and the days following.
• • Remember us in The Big Apple today, on September 11th, as New Yorkers come together to mourn the loved ones we lost.
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• • God Bless America • • 
• • "While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
• • Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
• • Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
• • As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer."
• • God Bless America,
• • Land that I love.
• • Stand beside her, and guide her
• • Thru the night with a light from above.
• • From the mountains, to the prairies,
• • To the oceans, white with foam
• • God bless America, My home sweet home.
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• • Words and music by Irving Berlin
© Copyright 1938, 1939 by Irving Berlin
© Copyright Renewed 1965, 1966 by Irving Berlin
© Copyright Assigned to the Trustees of the God Bless America Fund
International Copyright Secured.
• • All Rights Reserved.
• • Used by Permission • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Come up and see MAE in the mid-WEST in mid-September. 
• • Not far from the Windy City is the sweet suburb called Plainfield.
• • On 16 September 2007, from 3:00 — 4:00 PM, there will be an excellent tribute to MAE WEST — — by impressionist Mary Anne Burkhalter.
• • Actress Mary Anne Burkhalter, who has portrayed Miss West across the USA for nearly a decade, revives Mae's songs and material during an hour-long show. Mary Anne Burkhalter takes great pride in keeping the great comedienne's work alive in her "Tribute to Mae West." During her astounding 80-year career, Miss West said she had "been things and seen places," and Mary Anne would like to take you on a tour of a great life, and bring you face-to-face with an American legend. • • The event is open to all adults. Registration is required.
• • Where: Plainfield Library: 705 N. Illinois Street, Plainfield, Illinois
• • To register, call: 815-436-6639.
• • Tell them you read about this a-MAE-zing celebration on the Mae West Blog.• • Sources for this info: Plainfield Library and The Suburban Chicago News
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Think of it. Invited luminaries included MAE WEST, Gary Cooper, and Douglas Fairbanks.
• • Fifty thousand posters were printed.
• • A date was chosen for the opening: 1 September 1939.
• • On the eve of May's annual celebration of cinema at the Cannes Film Festival, Nigel Andrews reflects on what he calls "the worst-timed birth in modern cultural history." Writing for London's Financial Times, Nigel Andrews notes that a humble little fishing port on the Cote d’Azur had aspired to become a twin of Tinseltown by hosting an international film festival.
• • He writes: "Fifty thousand posters were printed. The invited luminaries included Mae West, Gary Cooper, and Douglas Fairbanks. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Charles Laughton – – what better symbol of Franco-Anglo-American entente? – – would open the event. Then Hitler invaded Poland. On that first day. The festival was cancelled. . . ."
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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