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Article: Was Mae black as well as blue? (book review)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2001
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Byline: ROGER LEWIS
Mae West: An Icon In Black And White by Jill Watts OUP [pound]25 ([pound]20 - 0870 165 0870) * (DISMAL)
Who'd help me form a posse to round up pofaced academics? It would be a kindness, putting these people out of their misery. Jill Watts is Associate Professor of History at California State University. Her book is heralded as brilliantly original by Henry Louis Gates Jr, of Harvard University, and is dubbed 'an absolute tour de force' by Margaret Washington, of Cornell University.
What Mae West: An Icon In Black And White actually is, however, is gobbledegook. I've no idea what Watts means when she talks about Mae's ...
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Article: Book review: Mae West: Way-out west
The Scotsman;
November 3, 2001 ;
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...Mae West by Jill Watts Oxford University Press, 25 pounds Mae West was 39 by the time she made it to Hollywood ... Camp. Jill Watts's biography presents Mae West as a sociological study. Her theory is ...
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