Tag Archives: Lindsay Lohan

Marilyn’s Calendar Pose Inspires Playboy Shoot

Posted on December 9, 2011 by marina72

  Lindsay Lohan has posed nude for the upcoming issue of Playboy. The photos – inspired by her idol, Marilyn Monroe’s 1949 session with Tom Kelley – have leaked online, reports Gossip Cop.


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Variations on Marilyn

Posted on November 10, 2011 by marina72

  The myriad imitators of Marilyn Monroe have been much-discussed of late. Perhaps the most interesting analysis comes from The AV Club, considering past film portrayals in The Goddess, The Sex Symbol, Insignificance, and Mister Lonely; Marilyn-inspired characters in The Munsters and … Continue reading →


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Lohan Intro to Bruno Bernard Book

Posted on August 24, 2011 by marina72

  Megan Fox may be so over Marilyn, but it’s good to hear that Lindsay Lohan is still very much a fan. She has written a forward to Marilyn: Intimate Exposures, a new collection of photos by Bruno Bernard, as revealed in the … Continue reading →


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Marilyn: Intimate Exposures

Posted on May 24, 2011 by marina72

Marilyn: Intimate Exposures, showcasing the work of the late Bruno Bernard and authored by his daughter, Susan Bernard, will be published in October by Sterling Signature. Two previous books on this subject have already published: the now rare Requiem for … Continue reading →


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Beauty Culture: The Marilyn Syndrome

Posted on May 22, 2011 by marina72

    ‘Beauty Culture’, a new exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, includes a sub-section devoted to Marilyn Monroe and her many imitators. Photographers Bert Stern, Bob Willoughby, and Joe Shere, who all worked with Marilyn, … Continue reading →


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Marilyn and Ann-Margret

Posted on April 20, 2011 by marina72

An interesting series on actress Ann Margret at Noir and Chick Flicks records an encounter with Marilyn in 1960, when Ann was just 19: ‘Through high school, she continued to star in theatricals. As part of a group known as … Continue reading →


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Marilyn in Fragments

Posted on November 6, 2010 by marina72

“For at the heart of the Marilyn Monroe legend beats that most American of stories: a wholly engrossing, Great Gatsby–style quest for self-transformation that starts (and too often ends) with nothing. Fragments reveals previously unreleased images of the star, all cocked eyebrows … Continue reading →


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‘Why Do We Still Love Marilyn?’

Posted on November 5, 2010 by marina72

This is the question posed by Lena Corner in today’s Independent, with a byline stating that ‘if she were alive today, the actress would be just another druggie starlet.’ (Needless to say, I strongly disagree…) Our enduring obsession with Monroe … Continue reading →


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Oliver Stone and the Marilyn Conspiracy

Posted on September 27, 2010 by marina72

Liz Smith shares an intriguing rumour about yet another Marilyn-related movie project in her column today. I have heard that Oliver Stone (The Doors, JFK) is finally interested in Monroe as a subject. Or at least in what supposedly went … Continue reading →


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Underground Comedy Movie 2010

Posted on July 31, 2010 by marina72

In this summer release, written and directed by Offer ‘Vince’ Shlomi (better known to US readers as ‘the ShamWow guy’), Lindsay Lohan recreates the famous ‘subway scene’ from The Seven Year Itch, as a skit, but with one major difference … Continue reading →


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