Here is a continuation of my Top Ten List of Classic Dame-y Movies. This is no easy task because there are so many movies that feature dames being dames.
Opinions, analysis and sometimes snarky vitriol about all kinds of popular culture, including TV, books, music, modern movies, and the internet.
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Top 10 Classic Dame Movies
The world is chock full of dames, some fully-blossomed, some who remain stunted as seedlings. One of the best ways to coax a nascent dame out of her shell
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Why We Still Love Lucy
For several generations I Love Lucy has served as a sort of televisual I-Ching. For millions of young girls, I Love Lucy has been a redhead-led Rosetta Stone, a valuable key
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Be Contagious! Effective Social Media Marketing
Everyone wants their content to be seen by as many people as possible. But what you really want is for your content to be shared by as many people
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Bring Back the Dame!
Check it out! I couldn’t have put it better than E.A. Hanks in her piece in Time Magazine — Enough With the Kooky Ingenues — Bring Back the Dame!
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Flea-Smitten
The thing about hearts that love a lot, they just keep breaking. And this time it’s the ease and energy with which I love a lot of stuff a
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Mary Astor and Her Dirty Diary
I learned about blow jobs from Charlie Chaplin. (Yes, that Charlie Chaplin.) I was about 12 and with my babysitting earnings I bought the book Hollywood Babylon. As a
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Sippie Wallace: A Mighty Tight Woman
According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, “there are no second acts in American lives.” Clearly, F. didn’t know f—, and he certainly didn’t know 1920s Blues singer and writer, “Sippie”
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The Scandalous Suicide of Hollywood’s Carole Landis
Carole Landis is known primarily as the bosomy blonde movie star who offed herself over Rex Harrison. Of all the schmucks who’ve driven ladies to leap, the idea of
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Great Sites For and About Great Dames
Of course, The Lost Art of Being a Dame is not really lost at all. It is alive and well at these wonderful sites where you can find great
