"We're puttin' on an op'ra tonight!"
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09 December 2007
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16 Comments:
Netrebko could do that.
better than GRAVES, (still the best take off on opera I have ever seen. I love this scene)
This is a hoot!-Mae ROCKS!...better then some real performances in the operahouse I've seen.
Who is the Samson?
Love it! Even complete with tits and arse!
IMdB credits Vladimar (sic) Bykoff as the Tenor, but it's not clear if that's his voice.
i just watched this the other day, it's a hoot with mae chasing the leading man instead of the other way around. she puts on the opera to impress society and she's fabulous. one of my favorite exchanges:
mae: we're intellectual opposites.
stud: what does that mean?
mae: i'm intellectual and you're opposite.
"Oh, I'm on, huh? Well how'm I doin?" I can use this line. This is great - had never heard of this and now must have it.
She has a very Gallic take on the Big D (complete with her own big Ds to boot). I dig.
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"C'mere, Sammy." Priceless.
Maybe she should sing Norma rather than Renee Fleming.
Cieca, darling -- are you quite WISE to show this on a site that is studied to excess by every practitioner of Operaregie on the planet? You KNOW they'll steal the very pedestal beneath David given the chance. (AND the sling. AND his whatchamacallit.)
On the other hand, I can't but notice that I sound (and sashay) exactly like that when I sing the role EXCEPT I take the high note. je T'AIme! And honey, when I aim ... run. (As Carmen would say.)
The servants react just the way Mae's do too.
Pity about all that goofy plot getting in the way of the good stuff ... but that's how I feel at Handel operas also ... and Wagner's ....
Somebody please sew a copy of Mae's girl holders and put them on one of our current divas.
She really was very beautiful.
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Awfull. So not feminine. A tue American!
Am I the only person who's insulted by the comment equating the Mae West's supposed lack of femininity with being American. She may not be feminine according to modern standards, but one of the reasons she was so successful in movies about the 1890s is that she so perfectly matched their standards. And she epitomizes the American Dream in that she started in vaudeville with nothing, not even an act, and made herself a star. When she couldn't find plays, she wrote 'em. She had a publicity machine Britney, Lindsay, and Paris would kill for. And we're still watching her movies and talking about her.
By not feminine, I meant vulgar, loud and unrefined. Yep, a true American! I really dont see what men found attractive in her. Ah, yes! The publicity machine...
Of course, if we take Paris, Lindsay or... Britney (!?!?!) as reference of feminity, she does have some excuse here.
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