AND THEN THEY SAID, "BUCKLE YOUR SEATBELT IT'S GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE." 

 

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Auntie Mame (1958)

Rosalind Russell was a brilliant actress. Auntie Mame was the role of a lifetime....

I always wanted to be Auntie Mame living life, as my friend, Six says on "island time". This was a great comedy about a "madcap" heiress in the roaring 20's. Mame wanted to really live! She insisted on adventure and she loved with her whole heart. The woman had no filters.

 Into her world, comes her young orphaned nephew Patrick Dennis. Coincidentally, the author is Patrick Dennis.

Mame is appointed Patrick's guardian. She spends the rest of the movie trying to get Patrick to think big and dream in color. And trying to keep him from becoming the small minded and humorless type of man she has avoided all her life.  

There are some wonderful character actors in this film. They play the characters in Mame's life. Mame surrounds herself with interesting characters, and has no use for the those who threaten to make life mundane. She is not subtle or diplomatic. I love this character. She has no use for morality by society's accepted standards. The woman is irrepressible, and funny as Hell.

ROSALIND RUSSELL

 Acting is standing up naked and
turning around very slowly.

Rosalind Russell  1907 - 1976

QUOTES FROM AUNTIE MAME

Auntie Mame: Oh, Agnes! Here you've been taking my dictations for weeks and you haven't gotten the message of my book: live!

 Agnes Gooch: Live?

Auntie Mame: Yes! Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!

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[Pouring Agnes a drink]

Mame: This will calm you down.

Agnes Gooch: Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person! Mame: What's wrong with that?

Agnes Gooch: Will it mix with Dr. Pepper?

 Mame: He'll love it! Drink!

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 Mrs. Burnside: [talking to her relatives] 'afternoon to y'all! Vultures!

 Sally Cato: Now Mrs. Burnside, I hope you don't think of me as a vulture!

Mrs. Burnside: Oh, no, Sally Cato! You're not a vulture, you're just a dead pidgeon!

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 Dwight Babcock: For nine years, Mame Dennis Burnside, I have done everything in my power to protect this boy from your idiotic, cockeyed nincompoopery.

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Mame Dennis: That's a B. It's the first letter of a seven-letter word that means your late father.

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Patrick Dennis: Is the English lady sick, Auntie Mame?

Auntie Mame: She's not English, darling... she's from Pittsburgh.

Patrick Dennis: She sounded English.

Auntie Mame: Well, when you're from Pittsburgh, you have to do something.

 Auntie Mame: Spitting distance? How vivid!

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Auntie Mame: Exclusively what and restricted to whom?

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Vera Charles: [to Mame regarding her loud, jingly bracelets] What the HELL have you got back there, reindeer?

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Mame Dennis: [to Patrick who has unleashed sunlight on a very hung-over Mame] Child, how can you see with all that light?

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Norah Muldoon: [to the electrical contractor regarding Vera Charles] It's the "First Lady of the American Thee-ayter" out cold in the guestroom. Ms. Charles don' live here. She does her drinkin' here and her passin' out here.

 

 

 Mercury turns direct in Scorpio on November 17. Now it's time to incorporate everything you've learned during this Mercury retrograde period, which began October 28. Hopefully, it will be a time of new beginnings. So don't look back! 

Uranus turns direct on November 19, bringing change and a desire to be totally true to yourself.  Jupiter enters the sign of the traveler  Sagittarius on November 23 for the first time in 12 years. Time for a new direction....get out your map.

Life turns on a dime. The dime becomes a magic carpet.... Enjoy the ride.

CLICKABLE WRITINGS

 

    Lucky was a drug dealer and a gambler. He was in his mid thirties. He was a good looking guy. I always thought of him as slick, not oily. He was living with a friend's daughter. Meg is an ernest young woman. She's beautiful and bright. Meg left college to try and reform Lucky. She was not successful.

 The relationship ended with abuse. I talked to Meg last Spring and she seemed to have left her idealism and her youth. So Meg left Lucky, and moved back in with her parents. She has since returned to school.

 I spotted Lucky  from time to time driving a new SUV. He was the kind of guy that ironed his jeans and got pedicures. He also met crack heads in back alleys to sell them drugs. He was a Spanish Adonis. Women followed him around.   I saw Lucky this summer.

 The homeless woman I talked about in my last blog was walking beside him. I fancied she was panhandling, but I also fancied she was an angel. I am a fanciful woman.

 A few weeks ago, I was showing the Hall to a reader. Indian Lil was cleaning up the place. She put down her broom to tell me Lucky had been murdered. He died in the heat of summer. The police identified him by his tatoo..."LUCKY".

His murderer was a teenage crackhead. The boy was so remorseful he confessed to his Dad. His father took him to the police to turn him in. My daughter had seen a segment on some police show where Lucky's sad ending was recounted. She didn't know that was Meg's boyfriend until Lil mentioned it.