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Tag Archives: Liz Smith
Sam Shaw in ‘Hollywood Reporter’
In the iconic image, her white skirt swirls up like a matador’s cape as she fights — reluctantly, it seems — to wrestle it back down. The photograph of Marilyn Monroe, taken at 51st Street and Lexington Avenue in New … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Photography, Books, Magazines
Tagged Hollywood Reporter, Liz Smith, Lorie Karnath, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Shaw
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Liz Smith Reviews ‘MM: Personal’
“Unlike last year’s Fragments, which consisted solely of Marilyn’s notes, poems, jottings, recipes, etc., MM Personal — while it also has letters from the star — is mainly correspondence to Monroe. From friends and professional colleagues — including harried notes and telegrams from … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Collections, Files & Documents
Tagged Liz Smith, Lois Banner, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Anderson, MM: Personal
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Kim Cattrall On Marilyn
As Kim and I were chatting, we were joined by the adorable writer Jacob Bernstein and some others. One of the guys — it’s always guys around Kim! — said: “All these actresses playing Marilyn Monroe now [Michelle Williams, Naomi Watts] but … Continue reading
Posted in Acting, Celebrities, Movies
Tagged Bus Stop, Kim Cattrall, Liz Smith, Marilyn Monroe
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Liz Smith on ‘Rare, Unseen’ Photo
SPEAKING OF the British press … oops! They are touting a Valentine’s Day pinup of Marilyn Monroe as “rare and unseen, from her days as Norma Jean, the model, circa 1948.” Sorry, the pic in question is a 20th Century Fox portrait … Continue reading
Liz Smith on Playboy, Oates and ‘Blonde’
‘Ms. Oates wrote a massive semi-fiction about Marilyn some years back, titled “Blonde,” which is now being made into a film with Naomi Watts. The author (like Norman Mailer before her) didn’t see the harm in mixing truth and illusion, the better … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Magazines
Tagged Blonde, Fragments, Joyce Carol Oates, Liz Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Playboy
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Liz Smith Reviews ‘Fragments’
“Fragments reveals the sad, sensitive, savvy woman behind the obvious image. Future biographers will have to weigh their assumptions with more care.” Liz Smith
Posted in Books, Memories & Anecdotes, Personal Life, Relationships, Websites, Writing
Tagged Fragments, Liz Smith, Marilyn Monroe
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Oliver Stone and the Marilyn Conspiracy
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
Posted in Celebrities, Death, Movies, Rumours
Tagged Lindsay Lohan, Liz Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Oliver Stone
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Isabel Keating Voices ‘Fragments’ CD
In mid-October, Farrar Straus & Giroux will bring out a book called Fragments – purported to be a work of Marilyn Monroe’s writings, poems, notes, letters from her personal archive. Isabel Keating did the audio voice of Marilyn for the Macmillan Audio version of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Celebrities, Radio
Tagged Fragments, Isabel Keating, Judy Garland, Liz Smith, Marilyn Monroe
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Eve Arnold: The Real Rarities
Leave it to Liz Smith, the first mainstream journalist to notice that the Eve Arnold prints at Castle Galleries, heralded by the media as ‘rare and unseen’, have all been published before. EVE ARNOLD, the great photographer, took many wonderful pictures … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Photography, Exhibitions
Tagged Castle Galleries, Eve Arnold, Liz Smith, Marilyn Monroe
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Kim Novak on Marilyn
The ‘ice-cool blonde’ immortalised in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) discussed her long career with Liz Smith this week. Perhaps inevitably, the conversation turned to another screen goddess of the fifties – Marilyn Monroe… I ask this ultimate survivor – the blonde who got away … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities
Tagged Bert Stern, Harry Cohn, Kim Novak, Liz Smith, Marilyn Monroe
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