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Article: ACTRESS CULTIVATES MAE WEST MOMENTS FOR `DIRTY BLONDE'.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- May 31, 2002
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Byline: JOE ADCOCKP-I theater critic
The dirty blonde referred to in the title "Dirty Blonde" is Mae West, (1892-1993). "But it is not a documentary, I'm not impersonating Mae," says Julie Briskman.
That's fortunate. Briskman is not notably dirty and she is certainly not blond. Of course, the title is a double entendre. Phrases you can take two ways, one innocent and one not, were among West's claims to fame. When someone says, "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds," Mae responds, "Goodness had nuthin' to do with it."
Or this: "I made myself platinum; I was born dirty blond." Or "When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better."
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