Tag Archives: Brooklyn

Rare Garroway Interview Clip

Posted on August 7, 2012 by marina72

An excerpt from David Garroway’s 1955 radio interview with Marilyn – in which she confessed that she wanted to retire to Brooklyn – has been broadcast on NBC.


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‘I Wasn’t Alive But I Remember’

Posted on June 13, 2012 by marina72

This mixed-media piece by artist Elizabeth Grammaticas – inspired, of course, by Marilyn’s birthday serenade to JFK – will feature in ‘Space Half Empty’, a new show at Brooklyn’s Fowler Arts Collective, opening this Friday, June 15.


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MM Film Season in NYC

Posted on June 26, 2011 by marina72

Fourteen of Marilyn’s films will screen next month at New York’s BAM Rose Cinema, reports the New York Post July 1: The Asphalt Jungle, Don’t Bother to Knock July 2: The Seven Year Itch July 3-4: Some Like it Hot July … Continue reading →


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What Norman Mailer Left Behind

Posted on May 3, 2011 by marina72

This framed collage – including a badge from Norman Mailer‘s 1969 NYC mayoral bid, and a photo by Bert Stern, used in Mailer’s controversial book, Marilyn (1973) - is one of the author’s personal items being auctioned this spring, along with … Continue reading →


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