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The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West
- js2 6y ago> Three years later West made one more film, The Heat’s On, then swished off the screen for many years, save two late-career efforts that will go unmentioned here. Myra Breckinridge (1970) <https://youtu.be/ywcr3lYuVo0 https://youtu.be/ywcr3lYuVo0> and Sextette (1978) <https://youtu.be/as6Iv5R1G0M https://youtu.be/as6Iv5R1G0M>.
- jodrellblank 6y agoIn the UK, Mae West is famous for being one daughter of serial killers Fred and Rose West. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
- njharman 6y agoNot the same person.
- jodrellblank 6y agoI know, that's the point of my comment, it's a name that brings up very different imagery accross the Atlantic.
- mpalmer 6y agoIn that case your point would have been clearer if you said "the name 'Mae West'" instead of referring to the subject of the post.
- jodrellblank 6y ago> "instead of referring to the subject of the post." I wasn't referring to the subject of the post. You don't think it's interesting that you just did the same thing to my comment, that I did to the title of the post? That's fine it's not Earth shaking. Usually famous people have unique enough names, or I've heard of both or neither.
- gjm11 6y agoIsolated datapoint: I'm in the UK, the Fred & Rosemary West thing happened while I was growing up, and to me "Mae West" very definitely means the actress and not the serial killers' daughter.
- tomcam 6y ago> When she sings with Duke Ellington’s band in Belle of the Nineties That performance is chilling. No one can say she didn’t understand the blues. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CpS5aPlgWa8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CpS5aPlgWa8 It feels obvious to me that she and Groucho Marx, then Bob Hope a little later, had styles that presaged the much more naturalistic acting traditions that are thought to have begun with Marlon Brando and James Dean. Don’t know of any dramatic actors who figured it out that early.
- HeyLaughingBoy 6y agoAm I dating myself by thinking of this when I read the article title? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-West
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoI wanted to read about tanks or life vests
- xwdv 6y agoI personally have no idea what this article is really talking about or what the significance of it is that would cause it to be up voted so highly. Baffled.
- njharman 6y agoHN has high proportion of "tech" people. Tech people old enough to have lived through "birth of Internet" or into 80's hacker/phreaker culture will know of MAE West and MAE East. These people, upvoted for nostalgia and to express comradery with poster.
- jandrese 6y agoSince this was on HN I thought it was going to be about the Internet Hub. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-West
- ultimoo 6y agoIt's unfortunate that the article doesn't link or embed a singe audio example of her voice. "Come up and see me sometime" https://youtu.be/xY9QxFDwiL0?t=40 https://youtu.be/xY9QxFDwiL0?t=40