Word: mame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keeps (Dutton; 1,312 pages; $34.95), which collects about a fifth of her movie writing. So far as we know, that's all she wrote -- no fiction, no lit crit, no backward glance at an early life that included jobs as a seamstress, cook and children's companion (Auntie Mame from Mensa!). "I'm frequently asked why I don't write my memoirs," she notes in the introduction to For Keeps. "I think I have...
...domestic comedy: a young woman depressed by her impending marriage to a perfect twit; her mother tensely determined that the bourgeois niceties of the occasion will be punctiliously observed; his mother glumly sorry to inflict her son on anyone; and descending on them a worldly and eccentric woman -- Auntie Mame with a foreign accent -- eager to disrupt the ritual politesse of English suburban life...
Strange substance abuse cases are going on in college hockey. First, the statistics people at Mame take hallucinogens before tallying up Paul Kariya's assist totals, now this. Who'da thunk it? ECAC FINAL LEAGUE STANDINGS Team W-L-T P GF GA Overall HARVARD 16-3-3 35 95 61 19-4-3 Rensselaer 15-6-1 31 96 61 18-8-4 Clarkson 12-6-4 28 103 64 16-9-5 Brown 13-7-2 28 102 78 14-10-2 Yale 12-7-3 27 97 86 15-11-3 St. Lawrence...
...elders. The draft letter he wrote from Oxford after his enlistment problems were over looks like a bid for the ROTC man's respect. Sometimes Bill could be more adult than adults: when his mother, a free spirit who still loves the racetrack, a kind of Arkie Auntie Mame, took him to nightclubs to listen to jazz, he was offended by the smoke and the drinking...
While TV is likely to beckon, Prince insists, "The musical is my art form." Shows will surely be written for her. Until then, shows that were written for Merman, Rosalind Russell and the other great ladies should be brought out of mothballs. One longs to see Prince in Mame, in Gypsy, in Annie Get Your Gun. For her, Guys and Dolls is probably just the first milestone on a voyage of Golden Age rediscovery...