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...Lillie Mae, her mother, whose name she eventually took, had a more placid disposition. But almost from the minute they finished with diapers, she found herself unable to control Lily and her brother Richard, who was four years younger. One day Lily and Richard decided that the living-room sofa would look better as a sectional. Practical kids, they picked up a saw and divided it into three pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...would put on a satin smoking jacket, light a cigarette and march around with a glass of something. I really think Mother sensed that we might take a stick to her if she didn't stop telling us what to do. So she decided to stop mothering." Lillie Mae, who returned to Kentucky after Guy died in 1973, says simply: "Lily was always a stubborn child, and I went along with a lot of things other mothers didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

Almost equally good, however, are Sable's partners and opponents in crime. As Brenda, Patty Woo moves gracefully from the woman abandoned by her man to the tough Mae Westish cookie who is determined to take her revenge. When Sable introduces her to the Harlstons as a student at a finishing school near Oxford, the jealous Brenda snaps "But I'm not finished yet." Larry Schneider's gutsy characterization of Harry Mercer is not quite so well developed as Woo's, but with his hardbitten face and sly movements, Schneider fits the image of the life of crime personified...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: An Almost Perfect Crime | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

...kinds of men," coos Mae West. "The kind with muscles and the kind without." Now 83, she is playing her first starring film role in 33 years: a movie star just wed to her sixth spouse. George Hamilton and Ringo Starr play two of her exes, and Dom DeLuise is her hyperactive manager. Titled Sextette, the movie is based on a play written by West, whose own love life is legend. Being a star again seems to have rejuvenated her. "I feel like I'm 20," says Mae. "No, make that more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1977 | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

Born. To Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 39, former middleweight boxer whose conviction for murdering three men in a tavern in 1966 became a cause célèbre, and Mae Thelma Carter, 37: their second child, first son; in Paterson, NJ. Name: Raheem Rubin. Carter and his co-defendant John Artis won the right to a new trial last March but were found guilty again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 10, 1977 | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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