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It is 1971 and legendary actress, writer and mistress of the double-entendre Mae West is performing in Vegas when her dresser tells her that photographer Diane Arbus has taken her own life [described]. West feigns not to remember who Arbus even was, but the play gives lie to this as we slip back to 1964 when Arbus went, on assignment for a New York magazine, to photograph West. Indeed, Diane is determined that she captured the real Mae West on film.
West recalls that she thought Arbus was a flake but, as Norman Mailer once asserted, giving a camera to Diane Arbus was ‘like giving a hand gr |