Muse

On February 9, 2008 ROBERT A. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Thursday after 4:00 p.m. where funeral services will take place on Friday at 1:00 p.m.

When the captivating Rev. C. Anthony Muse took the pulpit at the funeral of a fellow state senator last month, he repeated a phrase throughout his eulogy like a gospel choir singing a refrain: "Well done, Senator Britt, we'll take it from here." To many listeners in the pews that day, the phrase was a poignant way for Muse to pay tribute to the late Sen. Gwendolyn T. Britt and her long history as an activist. But the gay and lesbian attendees, who were shifting in the pews to exchange knowing looks, hoped the phrase meant something more.

Consumer-rights advocates and some legislators said yesterday that Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposals for addressing the mounting foreclosure crisis don't do enough to help homeowners now, but industry lobbyists argued in a Senate hearing that parts of the bills are onerous and need to be tweaked. O'Malley's administration has introduced a series of bills that would lengthen the time before a foreclosure can take place, create a new criminal statute on mortgage fraud and ban the conveyance of property in so-called foreclosure rescue schemes.

Taquila Muse of Catonsville brushes aside those who say people should be married before they live together. "I don't agree with that," says the 27-year-old. "I think you should get to know a person, everything about them, before you actually marry them." Tim McKinley of Huntington, N.Y., agrees. "I think you have a better chance of making it work if you've lived with someone for a while," says the 21-year-old Loyola College student. Living together is more common nowadays, but that doesn't mean it's gotten easier.

Mayor Sheila Dixon glided onto the stage of Morgan State University's Murphy Auditorium yesterday in her stunning red dress and waved to the crowd, who gave her a standing ovation. Within an hour, she would take the oath of office as Baltimore's first woman mayor. Three former mayors - Gov. Martin O'Malley, Kurt Schmoke and Thomas D'Alesandro III - were on stage with her. So were Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy, Comptroller Joan Pratt and City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

On August 19, 2007 WILLIE SR.; devoted husband to Mamie Muse. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Friday after 8:30 a.m. where the family will receive friends on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. followed by funeral service at 12 noon.

I'M VERY SHALLOW AND EMPTY, AND HAVE no ideas and nothing interesting to say," a pale blonde (Shelley Hack) who is the image of WASP pulchritude informs Woody Allen in Annie Hall. Michelle Pfeiffer is the prototype of the pale blonde, but she cuts against this insult to her type with every acting move she makes. The 49-year-old actress accepts her cover-girl looks while bringing her characters' hidden yearnings and confusions to the fore, and even their twisted villainy. In 2001's White Oleander she tore into the role of an impossibly beautiful and talented artist-mother -- a mother as bad news and muse -- who sees her daughter only as an extension of herself and involves the girl in preparations for a murder.

Creative Alliance Movie screenings The Creative Alliance's "Midnight Rambles" continues today at 7:30 p.m. with Harry L. Fraser's Spirit of Youth (1938), starring heavyweight champion Joe Louis, and The Broken Earth, a 1936 short film starring Baltimore's Clarence Muse. Admission is free. The Creative Alliance at the Patterson is at 3134 Eastern Ave. Information: go to creativealliance.org or call 410-276-1651. FYI Because of the Presidents Day holiday, the Nielsen TV ratings do not appear today.

How simultaneously wonderful and awful to be a muse! For Andy Warhol's prize protege Edie Sedgwick, it was wonderful for capturing the reckless beauty of her youth. But it was awful when she found she was a muse and nothing but a muse at a time when she needed true friends and people who might draw out her talent as well as her personality. Set largely in "the Factory," the headquarters for Warhol's Pop Art explosion, Factory Girl should be a bummer because it's almost all falling action.

Dr. William Travers Muse, a retired surgeon and industrial physician, died Thursday of stroke complications at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The longtime Homeland resident was 92. Dr. Muse was born in Baltimore and raised in a rowhouse at 1520 Hollins St., two doors from H.L. Mencken, whose family members were patients of Dr. Muse's physician father. "He had lots of stories about Mr. Mencken and was fond of recalling the many visits he made to their home to listen to him and his two brothers, who had a musical combo," said a son, Richard B. Muse of Bel Air. "Also, he remembered the times when he was growing up that Mr. Mencken would join his group of youngsters to spin tops in the alley behind their home," Mr. Muse said.