Monthly Archives: April 2012

Michelle Shocked: ‘Indelible Women’

Posted on April 22, 2012 by marina72

Folk/punk singer Michelle Shocked is planning a new album, Indelible Women, featuring tributes to icons like Billie Holiday, Frida Kahlo and MM. Her song for Marilyn is called ‘I Will Be Loved’, and she will play tracks from the upcoming project … Continue reading →


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Before They Were Famous

Posted on April 21, 2012 by marina72

In this 1964 photo, artist Andy Warhol holds an unrolled acetate of “Marilyn” in his New York studio, The Factory. The photo will be featured in an exhibit entitled: “Before They Were Famous: Behind the Lens of William John Kennedy,” … Continue reading →


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Crime Fiction: ‘Kisses Of Death’

Posted on April 21, 2012 by marina72

Max Allan Collins, author of Bye Bye Baby, has published new crime story featuring Marilyn. Kisses of Death is one of three novellas included in Triple Play: A Max Heller Casebook, available in paperback for £8.99 or via Kindle for … Continue reading →


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David Mach: Marilyn Collages

Posted on April 21, 2012 by marina72

 This collage by David Mach – using the iconic British army recruitment posters from World War I, featuring Lord Kitchener, to make an image of MM – will be auctioned at Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh, on April 25. Estimated price: … Continue reading →


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Marilyn’s ‘Icon Dress’ at Wallis

Posted on April 20, 2012 by marina72

This stylish replica of Marilyn’s white dress from The Seven Year Itch is part of a new range, ‘Icon Dresses’, at UK fashion chain Wallis, reports Market Watch. It costs £75, and is selling out fast. The range also includes … Continue reading →


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Pop Art Exhibit in Brooklyn

Posted on April 20, 2012 by marina72

Marilyn (as photographed by Bert Stern in 1962) features in ‘She’s All Legs Too’, a collage by Washington-based artist Dafna Steinberg, on display in the ‘Pop Now’ exhibit at the TNC Gallery in the East Village, Brooklyn from now until … Continue reading →


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Mitzi Gaynor Remembers Marilyn

Posted on April 20, 2012 by marina72

Mitzi Gaynor, who starred alongside Marilyn in There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954), is now 80, and will perform in a one-woman show, Razzle Dazzle! My Life Behind the Sequins, at the Reagle Theatre, Greater Boston, on Sunday, April 22. … Continue reading →


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Suzie Kennedy Featured in ‘Used’

Posted on April 19, 2012 by marina72

 MM impersonator Suzie Kennedy makes the cover of this month’s Used magazine, with a Monroe-inspired fashion shoot inside.          


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‘Bus Stop’ in Milwaukee

Posted on April 19, 2012 by marina72

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre‘s production of Bus Stop – described as ‘pitch perfect’ by critic Damien Jacques at OnMilwaukee – will run through to April 29. (I’m glad to see that Anne Walaszek, as Cherie, isn’t styled like a Monroe clone…) “Walaszek … Continue reading →


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Jacqueline Rose: ‘A Rumbling of Things Unknown’

Posted on April 19, 2012 by marina72

In February, ES Updates reported that Jacqueline Rose, the feminist and psychoanalytic critic, was planning a book about Marilyn. She has now spoken eloquently about Monroe’s talent, intelligence and courage in a lecture at the British Museum.  You can read, … Continue reading →


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