Many people recall their childhood as idyllic. Forty years after the fact, however, Mae West, got to publicly relive her own Gay Nineties childhood, recreating it on a grandly romanticized scale and sharing it with generations to come. She only… Read More ›
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Old Hollywood Movie Stars & their Holiday Greeting Cards
Romantic, ridiculous, egotistical, modest, perplexing, mundane, creative, funny. Like the Christmas cards once sent by Grandma and Grandpa, all those cousins, the neighbor and the business downtown, the Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year messages once… Read More ›
Lindsay Lohan to Madame Curie: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
March may be designated as a period to recall Women’s History but regardless of whether people are paying attention to the fact – women have always been crucial figures in all aspects of civilization, be they famous or unknown. Or,… Read More ›
Mae West Nude, Getting Naked, Fighting Father Time…and Living
In her later years, Mae West spoke out against nudity in feature films – not on a moral basis but because she felt it didn’t allow the imagination to wander. “Never drop the seventh veil,” she once said about actors… Read More ›
Mae Day 1966: 72-Year Old Mae West Decides to Rock and Roll
The Psychedelic Sixties started with the Swinging Summer of Sixty-Six in Southern California, popularized by the Beach Boys and the Beach Party – certainly more a notion of the imagination and movies, perhaps than reality for most young Americans at… Read More ›
How I Came Up to See Mae West One Time, Got her Floor Lamps and Something Else
I once came up to see Mae West sometime. And I got her floor lamps. And something else. Having just been through an exhausting inventory of all the things I’ve inexplicably bought over the years and August 17 being her… Read More ›
Mae to Mao: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
It turns out that the world’s most Famous have had a virtual Facebook all their own which began about a century ago and continues on, cutting across the mortal limitations of time, moving in and out of the present to… Read More ›
Good Time Charlie: The Sheen of Hollywood's Resurrected Rogue
In repossessing his previously successful persona, Charlie Sheen is now tweaking it into a narrative only Hollywood’s long-gone “Rogue” Archetype can play out. Whether search efforts for chards of the original Person have been abandoned only he knows; others only speculate…. Read More ›
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