June12012
Art by Bruno Doucin at Immortal Marilyn, on what would be Monroe’s 86th birthday.

Art by Bruno Doucin at Immortal Marilyn, on what would be Monroe’s 86th birthday.

May102012
“She was an inspired comic who understood the art and craft of comedy in cinema and could debate it, if she was allowed, with any critic in the world. All these performances, in their various tonal registers – dark, light, happy, sexy, rueful – show again and again the quality that made her a poster girl in the first place: that sublime gift for comedy.” 
Peter Bradshaw on MM
“She was an inspired comic who understood the art and craft of comedy in cinema and could debate it, if she was allowed, with any critic in the world. All these performances, in their various tonal registers – dark, light, happy, sexy, rueful – show again and again the quality that made her a poster girl in the first place: that sublime gift for comedy.” 

Peter Bradshaw on MM

April192012

“One of her great gifts was to distil suffering into a face and body meant to signify pleasure and nothing else.”

Jacqueline Rose on Marilyn Monroe
Photo by Erich Hartmann, Magnum, 1960 

“One of her great gifts was to distil suffering into a face and body meant to signify pleasure and nothing else.”

Jacqueline Rose on Marilyn Monroe

Photo by Erich Hartmann, Magnum, 1960 

March192012

My book has a new reader, yay!!

alwaysmarilynmonroe:

This is the latest Marilyn book in my collection; The Mmm Girl by Tara Hanks. It is very unique as it is written as Marilyn herself! Tara is very well respected within the Marilyn community so I’m hoping this will be good! :)

January62012
Marilyn Monroe in 1960, photographed by Eve Arnold, who died yesterday aged 99.

Marilyn Monroe in 1960, photographed by Eve Arnold, who died yesterday aged 99.

November252011
Michelle Williams, ‘My Week With Marilyn’

“An interviewer once said to me, ‘You play all these victims but they’re strong.’ Hello? Every woman alive on the planet right now could be described like that. Every woman alive. Every woman is fragile and strong.”

Michelle Williams, ‘My Week With Marilyn’

“An interviewer once said to me, ‘You play all these victims but they’re strong.’ Hello? Every woman alive on the planet right now could be described like that. Every woman alive. Every woman is fragile and strong.”

October12011

‘How to Marry a Millionaire’ (1953)

- Well that’s a big contribution to a million dollar proposition. One whole quarter! - Maybe, but she’s awfully clever with a quarter. 

‘How to Marry a Millionaire’ (1953)

- Well that’s a big contribution to a million dollar proposition. One whole quarter! 
- Maybe, but she’s awfully clever with a quarter. 

May212011
Joyce Carol Oates, ‘Black Dahlia and White Rose’, from LA Noire: The Collected Stories

 
Well—this is true! So many of us yearning for this “break”—which will make the sadness of our lives fade, we think—like shadows on a wall when the sun comes out.

& we will think then ’Now the sadness of my life is forgotten. Now—there will be a new life.’

Joyce Carol Oates, ‘Black Dahlia and White Rose’, from LA Noire: The Collected Stories

Well—this is true! So many of us yearning for this “break”—which will make the sadness of our lives fade, we think—like shadows on a wall when the sun comes out.

& we will think then ’Now the sadness of my life is forgotten. Now—there will be a new life.’

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