Word: maes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steve Carlton is a bright and loving son to his widowed mother. He wears a Northeastern High School jacket, dribbles a basketball round the house and spoons with his sweet girl friend Mae, the cheerleader. But Steve falls in with a bad companion from next door, and before long his mother hardly knows...
...play that is a dramatic refugee from the 1950s. EXcept that here the characters are black and the setting is the Detroit ghetto. The bad influence arrives in the form of Rico, a wonderfully reptilian pimp who means to apprentice Steve to his trade by having the lad peddle Mae in the streets. Will Steve choose the life of vice? Will he break his old mother's heart, not to mention Mae...
...last, a sort of Middle American virtue triumphs in the victory of mother, church and romantic love. In the final scene, when Steve rejects the life of sin and sweeps up Mae (Loretta Greene) in his arms, her feet leave the floor and you almost expect her, slowly and sensuously, to kick off high-heeled shoes in Hollywood abandon to the last Cuddle...
...West, Young Man. Mae West, that is. She is a famous actress gracing a small cowtown with a visit, and Randolph Scott is her straight man. Channel...
...bride's six-year-old daughter joined Best Man Frank Sinatra at the most lavish reception ever recalled by the staff of the Beverly Hills Hotel. The assistant chef had spent five days in the freezer molding the names of Newlyweds Dean Martin, 55, and Catherine Mae Hawn, 25, into a massive ice sculpture of hearts and cherubs. Under 15 hanging cages of cooing white doves, 85 guests enjoyed Dean's favorite beluga caviar ($190 a pound) and Dom Pérignon ($33 a bottle). The bride and groom stayed only an hour, then returned to the site...