Tag Archives: Norman Mailer

‘Blondes’ in Boston

Posted on April 30, 2012 by marina72

The new, digitally-restored print of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes will be screened at Arts Emerson in Boston on May 4-6, as part of their ‘Gotta Dance: The American Film Musical 1929-1953.’ “Never again in her career will Monroe look so sexually perfect, … Continue reading →


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Joe Franklin’s ‘Marilyn’ on Kindle

Posted on April 15, 2012 by marina72

The Marilyn Monroe Story (1954) was the very first biography to be published  about Marilyn, and copies of the original now sell for high prices. So I was delighted to find that this rare book is now available on Kindle for … Continue reading →


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Lawrence Schiller: ‘Marilyn & Me’

Posted on March 14, 2012 by marina72

 Lawrence Schiller, who photographed Marilyn on the set of her last film, Something’s Got to Give (and later served as art director on Norman Mailer’s Marilyn) has written a new book about his experiences. Marilyn & Me: A Photographer’s Memories … Continue reading →


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‘Was Marilyn Monroe a Synaesthete?’

Posted on February 4, 2012 by marina72

In ‘Tasting the Universe: Synaesthesia from the Inside Out’, a regular column for Psychology Today, Maureen Seaberg poses an intriguing question: Was Marilyn a synaesthete? Synaesthesia, as defined by MedicineNet.com, is ‘a condition in which normally separate senses are not separate. … Continue reading →


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Mailer, Siegel and the ‘Angel of Sex’

Posted on January 12, 2012 by marina72

Over at In These Times, Lindsay Beyerstein eloquently responds to the literary critic Lee Siegel’s curious assertion that Marilyn’s legacy has been ‘de-sexualised’, and in particular, his bizarre attack on Norman Mailer (who, if anything, was even more fixated by … Continue reading →


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Bert Stern Returns to Bel Air

Posted on December 13, 2011 by marina72

Carrie White of the Huffington Post reports on the launch of Bert Stern’s new Marilyn book for Taschen, with text by Norman Mailer, at the Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles, where Stern photographed Monroe in 1962. Guests included legendary music producer Quincy … Continue reading →


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Marilyn: Beyond the Myth

Posted on December 10, 2011 by marina72

Writing for The National in Dubai, Helena Frith Powell ponders Marilyn’s appeal: ‘When I was 10, The Sunday Times magazine serialised Norman Mailer’s biography of Marilyn Monroe. I don’t know how or why I had heard of her but I collected all … Continue reading →


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Marilyn in ‘The Lady’

Posted on November 23, 2011 by marina72

The Lady is best-known in the UK as a weekly magazine for upper-class women in search of a butler. It was with some surprise that I saw Marilyn on the cover this week…    


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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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Mailer’s Marilyn Still in Demand

Posted on August 31, 2011 by marina72

Norman Mailer‘s 1973 photo-biography, Marilyn, comes 8th in Bookfinder‘s list of the most in-demand, out-of-print books. The book was a bestseller on publication, and it is still easy to find used copies at reasonable prices. For those with money to … Continue reading →


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