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Meet Mazie Phillips: big hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress from the Venice, the famed NEW YORK movie theater. It's the Jazz Get older, with relationship and booze aplenty - even when Prohibition kicks in - and Mazie never converts down a night time out. But her high spirits face mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, retains her dearest secrets. When the Great Depression strikes, Mazie's life is on the brink of transformation. Addicts and bums roam the Bowery; homelessness is rampant. If Mazie won't help them, then who? When she starts the doors from the Venice to those in need, this ticket-taking, fun-time girl becomes the conquering heart of the Lower East Area and, in determining one neighborhood, helps define the town. Then, more than 90 years after Mazie started her diary, it's discovered by a documentarian searching for a good story. Who was Mazie Phillips really? A chorus of voices from the past and present fill in some of the strange blanks of her ambitious life. Motivated by the life span of a woman who was profiled in Joseph Mitchell's common Up in the Old Hotel, Saint Mazie is infused with Jami Attenberg's personal wit, bravery, and heart and soul. Mazie's rise to "sainthood" - and her irrepressible spirit - is memorable.
