The Marilyn Monroe death industry gears up again
There should be a tremendous outpouring of entertainment feature stories, columns and photo essays on Marilyn Monroe in early August when we mark the 50th anniversary of the iconic star’s death. Vanity...
View ArticleWhen BB battled MM for the sex goddess championship
Marilyn Monroe’s increasing instability in the early 1960s can be attributed to many causes — soaring use of booze and pills, the final collapse of her marriage to Arthur Miller in 1961, contract...
View Article‘Mr. Hobbs’: when Jimmy Stewart turned into a spacey grouch
I like to play something I call “Netflix roulette,” adding random titles to my long list of DVD rental choices from the media giant. Some of the movies are new-ish films I haven’t gotten around to...
View Article‘Garden of Dreams’: Simone Signoret on screen and off
The great French actress Simone Signoret didn’t make a lot of films in English — and only a few in Hollywood — but it’s still suprising that it took until now for an English language biography to be...
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