Writing for Canada’s Globe and Mail, Katrina Onstad argues that nobody can match Marilyn’s mystique:
“Everything, even (and especially) adoration, can be transmitted faster than it was in the fifties, and celebrity casts a shadow that can cover the globe; a worldwide star should be inevitable. Yet it hasn’t happened, and constant exposure is why no one could be as beloved as Monroe.
Of course, that mysteriousness left Monroe vulnerable to conspiracy theories, whispers of murder and espionage. We remain desperate to make sense of her…
But the woman who was photographed reading Ulysses and Carl Sandburg is also caught in constant reflection. Monroe, so scrutinized, tried – desperately – to maintain her own inner life.”
