Blogcritics: Comments on Mae West's birthday

Comment by DrPat

Thu, 19 May 2005 21:15:52 EDT

I love the quote from West as Tira in I'm No Angel: Tira: What do you do for a living? Rich Guy: I'm a politician. Tira: I don't like to work either.

Comment by Mae West

Thu, 19 May 2005 20:54:01 EDT

Come Up and See Mae - at her birthday party! details address

Comment by Al Barger

Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:42:36 EDT

Platonic and Nietzchean do not necessarily go together, that is correct. It's good to see someone so philosophically astute paying attention. "Ei-day" of hookers, and "uber-hooker" are two separate thought categories. It's not just that she was hot, but that she was smart and hot. In the words of James Brown, "You've got to use just what you got to get just what you want." She was expert.

Comment by SenoritaKnowItAll

Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:27:40 EDT

Al, "Platonic ideal" and "Nietzschean" do not necessarily go together. Check out my URL. But I get your larger point. Ms. West was the proto-hottie.

Comment by Al Barger

Sun, 17 Aug 2003 18:23:15 EDT

Yeah, the Hays office was definitely her nemesis. ONE film with Fields. Yes, my bad.

Comment by Bill Sherman

Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:06:16 EDT

Not to be too picky, but Fields and West only shared billing once in Chickadee: the film doesn't show either at their best (by this time, the ultra-prudish Hays Office was clamping on "obscenity" in movies - and Mae's greatest, risque material did not fit within the parameters of what the blue-noses considered decent), but the duo is still fun to watch. I'm No Angel catches the woman at her peak, though. . .