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Oscar Wilde said that life imitates art. For AJ Mooney, that's an accurate assessment. It just took getting personal with a certain blond bombshell for her to find the art in her life again.
Mooney will return this week to the Bangor Opera House stage, performing as legendary movie star Mae West, in Penobscot Theatre Company's Maine premiere production of "Dirty Blonde," a critically acclaimed portrait of the Hollywood icon that had its Broadway debut in 2000. The show opens in previews on Wednesday, Feb. 9, and runs through Feb. 27.
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- Michael H. Holland; Marty D. Hudson; Elliot A. Segal; A. Frank Dunham, as Trustees of the United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Big River Minerals Corporation; Big River Coal Corporation; Pea Ridge Iron Ore Company, Incorporated; Oxide Services Corporation; Castle Rock Mining Company; Castle Rock Coal Corporation; Long Branch Energy Corporation; Pinnacle Rock Coal Corporation; Panther Branch Coal Company, D/B/a Long Branch Energy; Birchfield Mining, Incorporated; Davidson Mining, Incorporated; M.A.E.-West, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellants, v. Michael H. Holland; Michael O. Mckown; Donald E. Pierce, Jr.; Elliot A. Segal, Trustees of the United Mine Workers of America 1993 Benefit Plan, Third Party Defendantsappellees., 181 F.3d 597 (4th Cir. 1999)
ARGUED: Charles Leslie Woody, SPILMAN, THOMAS & BATTLE, P.L.L.C., Charleston, West Virginia; David J. Laurent, POLITO & SMOCK, P.C., Pittsburgh, Penns...
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Mae West, as an admirer in "Dirty Blonde" says, is "the movie star equivalent of Venice." You can't say a place is "a little like Venice" - there's no other place like it. And there hasn't been a sex symbol quite like Miss West - despite many imitators - in the 30 years since her death.
Dirty Blonde," the Tony-nominated musical that premiered on Broadway in 2000 and is being restaged at Signature, is a raucous celebration of the risque movie queen and vaudeville star. It's so good at defining Miss West's raw appeal that one wonders why we need those admirers to frame what's a fascinating story on its own.
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By Mal Vincent
The Virginian-Pilot
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Andrew Toti, who designed the Mae West flotation vest that saved thousands of downed World War II pilots including President George H.-W. Bush, has died. He was 89.
Mr. Toti died March 20 at his rural Modesto, Calif., home of unspecified causes.
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Sexy Mae wiggles her way into history
Emily Wortis Leider's Becoming Mae West (Farrar Straus Giroux, 431 pp.) would have been better titled "Being M...
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Hollywood is taking the country to hell in a hand basket. Movie studios have to consider their responsibility to society. Bad behavior on screen definitely correlates to bad behavior off screen.
Cary Grant and Mae West star in a scene from "She Done Him Wrong.
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The Great Depression continued to dominate the front page of the San Fernando Valley's leading paper as its effects dragged into the late 1930s.
The Van Nuys News, predecessor of the Los Angeles Daily News, focused often on who had work - and who didn't. Yet its pages were also salted with quirky features and the names of some of the region's most famous residents - Mae West, Mary Pickford, Harry Houdini, Buddy Rogers and Walt Disney, among them.
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Anna Mae Schriner, 73, of Cheyenne died Dec. 17, at Mountain Towers Healthcare.
She was born Anna Mae West on Dec. 12, 1936, in Corydon, Iowa.
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OLAF FUB SEZ: According to actress and sex symbol Mae West, born Mary Jane West on this date in 1893, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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