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Tag Archives: Mae West
Stuff I’ve Been Reading
Been a while since I’ve done one of these. — The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick I had never read her before. I was familiar with her as “Robert Lowell’s wife” – she shows up repeatedly in his correspondence with … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, fiction, Mae West, nonfiction, stuff I've been reading, The Bridge Across Forever
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The Books: The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town, edited by Lillian Ross; ‘Corsets de Luxe’, by Geoffrey Hellman
Next up on the essays shelf: The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town (Modern Library Paperbacks) is a collection of “The Talk of the Town” pieces in The New Yorker, grouped by decade, which is a … Continue reading
Cary Grant and Mae West
An excerpt from Cary Grant: A Biography by Marc Eliot. I like it because it captures, for me, why Cary Grant (so young) stood out in this movie. (Actually – in terms of “young actors” – he wasn’t young. Success … Continue reading
Archie Leach’s Beginnings
Archie Leach (later Cary Grant) arrived in New York City as a boy of 15, having joined the Bob Pender acrobat troupe. They performed at the Hippodrome (God, to have been in New York in those days!!! WHAT I would … Continue reading