April 05, 2009

For Mae West, it was sex and work, work and sex  04/05/09 12:01 AM

As a child, she imagined her name up in lights and reveled in her reflection in a mirror. As a young woman, she embodied sex and fought for sexual equality between men and women. As an old woman . . . well, she never changed her outlook. And in Charlotte Chandler’s hypnotically readable “She Always Knew How,“ Mae West tells her own story, famous double entendres and all.

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