Actress Jeri Archer portrayed the often overexposed, self-centered and clueless Poitrine, and Kurt Bieber was her beefcake co-star and paramour, " Letch Feely " . " Little Me " was reissued in 2002 with a new preface by Charles Busch and foreword by Alexander.
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Ms . Prince, who won a Tony in 1992 for her portrayal of the feisty Miss Adelaide in " Guys and Dolls, " will play Belle Poitrine, a poor girl who stumbles her way through a series of madcap adventures and unfortunate men, all of whom will be played by Short.
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Very few women even considered black except for Annette Bening, whose Armani shtick is wearing thin ( tastefully boring ), and Sophia Loren, whose belle poitrine is bigger and belle-er all the time . ( Roberto Benigni buried his nose in her net-draped bosom and almost had a heart attack .)
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The main character of the novel, Belle Poitrine, describes her shopping spree " I went on a mad round of shopping-diamonds and pearls-from Peacock's, glossy furs from John T . Shayne, dresses of every description from Field's and Carson, Pirie, Scott with shoes to match from O'Connor and Goldberg ."
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Among Short's other roles : Amos Pinchley, a mean, wheelchair-bound miser, fatally bewitched by Belle; Fred Poitrine, an innocent World War I doughboy who marries Belle, only to suffer a terrible fate in France, not in the trenches but in a clerical accident; Otto Schnitzler, Belle's Hollywood director, who also succumbs prematurely and in bizarre circumstances, and Prince Cherney, the very Sid Caesar-like reigning monarch of a European principality that's approximately the size of Sardi's.
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The plot of " Little Me " tells the rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches, etc . story of Maybelle Schlumpfert, an overdeveloped and self-deluded girl who rises to become Belle Poitrine . ( An example of her delusion : Belle is born in 1900 and the book is structured a chapter per decade, but chapter six is titled " Frankly Forty " ) Throughout the book, Poitrine's character trumpets her successes ( which are few ) while glossing over her failures ( which are many ).
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The plot of " Little Me " tells the rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches, etc . story of Maybelle Schlumpfert, an overdeveloped and self-deluded girl who rises to become Belle Poitrine . ( An example of her delusion : Belle is born in 1900 and the book is structured a chapter per decade, but chapter six is titled " Frankly Forty " ) Throughout the book, Poitrine's character trumpets her successes ( which are few ) while glossing over her failures ( which are many ).
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"Those lips . " ( Signature coral nude . ) " Those eyes . " ( Updated'50s, heavily lined and contoured . ) " That hair . " ( Tinted auburn, long, thick and youthful . ) " The cheekbones . " ( So defined you could hang laundry on them . ) " Those, hum . . . that ( ital ) poitrine ( end ital ) . " ( Uplifting and uplifted, shaped by a bustier of silver bugle beads and hidden under a double layer of black net, all by Giorgio Armani .)
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WITH : Martin Short ( Young Noble Eggleston, Old Noble Eggleston, Amos Pinchley, Benny Buchsbaum, Val du Val, Fred Poitrine, Otto Schnitzler and Prince Cherney ), Faith Prince ( Belle ), Brooks Ashmanskas ( Pinchley Jr ., assistant director and doctor ), Peter Benson ( Kleeg, defense lawyer, maitre d', preacher, general, captain and Victor ), Michael McGrath ( Bruce, Bernie Buchsbaum and Yulnick ), Michael Park ( Lucky ), Christine Pedi ( Miss Keppelwhite, Christine, secretary, nurse and casino woman ) and Ruth Williamson ( Momma and Mrs . Eggleston ).
