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Funny Girls: Marilyn as Sugar Kane

Film critic Saul Austerlitz salutes Hollywood’s greatest female comics today on WowOwow Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) A deliriously gender-bending exercise in over-the-top comic mania, Billy Wilder’s masterpiece features the best-ever performance from that underrated comedic master, Marilyn … Continue reading


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Marilyn and Mae: Great Film Comics

‘Austerlitz notes that his biographical chapters are intended to create a conversation among comedy’s most influential practitioners. Arranged in rough chronological order, the effect is cumulative. Mae West’s brazen sexuality primps the pillow for Marilyn Monroe’s bombshell self-awareness; unlikely bedfellows … Continue reading


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