An eccentric, a free spirit and an unflaggingly open-minded heroine, Mame Dennis taught more than one protege — including NPR's Bob Mondello —... Auntie Mame's Secret: The 'Loco' In Her Parentis Mame ...

AROUND THE WORLD WITH AUNTIE MAME (286 pp.)—Patrick Dennis—Har-court, Brace ($3.95). Patrick Dennis, the bearded Scheherazade with the eye for the Mame chance, has strummed out another night’s ...

Charles Busch's specialty of playing classy ladies with a twist makes him an inspired choice to take on an iconic role in gay culture: Mame Dennis. But in this on-the-fly summer production in Ogunquit ...

The Motion Picture Production Code, also known as the Hays Code after censor/stick-in-the-mud Will Hays, regulated film content for nearly 40 years, restricting, among other things, depictions of ...

After a tour in the Navy, Carl Rizzi came to D.C. for a career in the Postal Service. But the life of a fabulous high-drag performer beckoned and Rizzi created his other self, Mame Dennis, and became ...

When Vanity Fair sat down with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Annie Mumulo to discuss her friendship with Kristen Wiig, her breakout hit "Bridesmaids," and her more recent projects ("Joy," "Bad Moms"), ...

MAME just released version 0.280, and one of the most exciting additions is the emulation of a super-rare 1986 arcade game called 119 from Coreland and Sega. There are many other small improvements, ...

From the time Patrick Dennis introduced her in his best-selling 1955 novel Auntie Mame, the free-thinking gadabout of 3 Beekman Place has been part of American mythology. Just about everyone knows of ...

Mame Dennis — irrepressible, adoring, easily distracted, utterly down-to-earth — is the guardian any sensible child would love to have. In Auntie Mame, published in 1955, her sheltered, just-orphaned ...