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Article: Come Up and Signify Me: Mae West Meets Academia.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2001
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Byline: Robert Gottlieb
Mae West: An Icon in Black and White, by Jill Watts. Oxford University Press, 362 pages, $35.
Poor Mae West! First, struggling up the hard way--the not-quite-savory background, burlesque, vaudeville; notoriety (well, she enjoyed that); sneered at by the classy side of Broadway and later of Hollywood (Miriam Hopkins huffed of her own films and West's: "They don't belong in the same conversation or category"); slow artistic and box-office death at the hands of the Hays Office; desperate attempts to reassert her appeal; the ghastly Myra Breckinridge (when she thought they were offering her Myra, she turned it down: "I like my sexes ...
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