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...voter who has made up her mind is Mae Eddinger, a retired school teacher who has spent nearly half a century educating the children of North Carolina...
...press-on nails ("I guess I should've pressed harder") and giddy with her first sip of high life in a Plaza bathroom ("Cute little soaps in the shape of swans! Could you die!"). Tomlin plays the Roses, but Midler is a fistful of Daisys: Miller, Buchanan and Mae. She is more than High Concept. As a movie star, even in this efficient little comedy, Bette is heaven in high heels...
Capote's father, Clarke relates, was a charming con man named Arch Persons, a bad-check artist who worked, when he worked, as a promoter for a carnival performer called the Great Pasha, whose specialty was being buried alive. His mother was a small-town Alabama beauty named Lillie Mae Faulk, who eventually chucked the shiftless Arch, headed for New York City and changed her name to Nina because it sounded more sophisticated. Little Truman was parked for much of his childhood in a Southern-gothic household of eccentric cousins in Monroeville, Ala. But Clarke stresses that his most agonizing...
...movieland, id and ego are often the same thing, and sexy Mae West is also good for several laughs. Director Ernst Lubitsch complained that West, who was her own screenwriter, was hogging the best lines in one of her films. Every story has two characters, he reminded her. "Look at Romeo and Juliet." To which Mae haughtily replied, "Let Shakespeare do it his way. I'll do it mine. We'll see who comes out better...
...Mae Roberts of Holladay, Utah, was having trouble opening a plastic two-liter bottle of Diet 7-Up. So she took a wrench to it, as she had many times in the past, but the results were disastrous. The top shot off like a champagne cork and struck her in the left eye, destroying most of the iris...