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Recent Examples of mademoiselleDoja also matches the vibe of a mademoiselle while putting her French to the test and posing for photos in front of the Eiffel Tower.—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 20 Aug. 2025
Love the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.
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Matt Wake | mwake@al.com,
al,
19 Dec. 2019
Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.
His father worked as a janitor and mother a governess.
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Jan Goldsmith,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Sep. 2025
Based on a true story, the plot follows the aristocratic Von Trapp family as former convent novice Maria (played by Julie Andrews), shows up to be governess and changes their lives.
These include typecasting Black women as jezebels, sapphires and mammies; these depictions, combined with the law enforcement they may be exposed to, increase their vulnerability under the law.
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Kerry Lester Kasper,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
The mammy stereotype, which desexualized both dark skinned enslaved and free women (who were often in domestic roles), made muting Black beauty the norm.
Lucia Balordi as Nastasia, Ellen’s ladies’ maid who has become a close friend and confidant.
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Joe Otterson,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
Burnett was content to mine references from her own Depression-era youth; her famous maid character, the Charwoman, who became something of a show mascot, harked back to Chaplin’s Little Tramp, wearing a rumpled outfit and performing silent reveries.
The story centers on a high-end D.C. madam who goes into witness protection and flees to Maine with her daughter; Gillen will reportedly play business exec Carl Milliken III.
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Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
23 Sep. 2025
In the Untitled Witness Protection pilot, a violent confrontation drives a high-end D.C. madam, Remy (Brie), to turn on her partner and enter witness protection in seaside Maine with her adolescent daughter.
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