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Old 01-07-2005, 07:19 PM   #1
 
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Mae West Biography and Question

I am reading an autobiography of Mae West. She is really a fantastic writer, you know? I don't think she had a ghost writer on it, either. It mentions the editor's name, but no co-authoring. Was it required to disclose that information in the past?

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Old 01-08-2005, 07:51 AM   #2
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GG. Since she wrote many of her own screenplays, I could imagine that she wrote her biography. Is it really that good? I would have expected a series of risqué clichés. I guess Hollywood never has fairly represented most people eh? Enjoy. huni
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GG. Since she wrote many of her own screenplays, I could imagine that she wrote her biography. Is it really that good? I would have expected a series of risqué clichés. I guess Hollywood never has fairly represented most people eh? Enjoy. huni
Huni:

Hi!

I do enjoy the way it's written. Here is the first paragraph of chapter one. It is what drew me in:

"The Brooklyn I was born in, near the end of the 19th century, was still a city of churches, with their great bronze bells walloping calls to the faithful from early dawn, and a city of waterfront dives where the old forest of the spars of sailing ships was rapidly being replaced by funnels and the Sand Street Navy Yard already had a reputation for girl chasers. Gentlemen, and deer, ran wild in Prospect Park."

-Mae West from "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It"



I thought that was very lovely.

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