by Dixie James | Jul 18, 2022 | FEATURED, POP-ED
I’ve seen 1939’s The Women approximately 20,000 times, give or take, still it’s one of the few movies I always watch whenever it’s on TCM. (Despite the fact I own the DVD.) Though back in 1939 the trailer promoted it as “The Women – and it’s all about men”, this is... 
by Dixie James | Dec 5, 2018 | FEATURED, FEMORABILIA
Dametown is a place where dames are celebrated, appreciated, advocated, venerated, illuminated, cultivated, stimulated, instigated, sometimes exonerated. This begs the question, “So, what IS a dame?” As Justice Potter Stewart famously said about... 
by Dixie James | Mar 29, 2018 | FEATURED, LIFE
You take it for granted. Knowing where you came from, how you came to be in the world, where you got that laugh or why your legs are so hairy. Maybe it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but for me and lots of other adoptees, not knowing who and where you came from is a... 
by Dixie James | Oct 10, 2017 | FEATURED, LIFE
It’s not often that Philosophy, fancy lingerie, and mass transit collude to bring about romance. But they, and a cast including Monty Python, Martin Luther King, God, and an urbane jewel thief, at least once brought together two wildly mismatched souls. It all...