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Krashstar
06/02/09

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Actually, a whole bunch of these were published a few months back when Google images added a big batch of LIFE material to what they have available.

If you go to images.google.com there's a link to the LIFE photo archives. Click it, and off to the right (under 'people') you'll see a link to MM. Click that, and several of these shots will turn up, along with plenty of other goodness that LIFE had on ice.
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1.1.1.
06/01/09

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I will never understand the cult of Marilyn Monroe. As a child, I found that powder puff voice impossible to listen to.

When I look at photos of Louise Brooks, Ingrid Bergman and Elizabeth Taylor, I see the beauty. With Marilyn Monroe, I see the makeup that's looks like it's been applied with a trowel. There's something irreducibly cheesy about her.
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allyzay
06/01/09

@1.1.1.: did you want a medal?
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
06/01/09

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Today would have been her 83rd birthday.
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BookishLookish
06/01/09

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She had been a model for a few years already and understood how to make a good picture. Even overdeveloped, completely gorgeous. One of my heroes.
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bess marvin, girl detective
06/01/09

@BookishLookish: heroes? that's going a bit far. she had great quotes and even decent comedic timing (i.e. all about eve). but what exactly about her that you find worthy of hero worship besides her surgically enhanced beauty?
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BookishLookish
06/02/09

@bess marvin, girl detective: Yes, well, I wouldn't expect someone who would reduce the appeal of another human being to the removal of some minor facial cartilage to get it. But for those of you who are interested, I recommend Barbara Leaming's biography; also very useful for scholars of HUAC.
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bess marvin, girl detective
06/02/09

@BookishLookish: oh please, don't act like she cured cancer or something or had this remarkable career. most of her success is because of her looks and a persona she created. she was a more earnest, slightly more talented paris hilton.
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BookishLookish
06/02/09

@bess marvin, girl detective: And I disagree with you and take my quote off your stupid website. You are not worthy.
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apocalypse-nowish
06/02/09

@BookishLookish: I really loved Donald Spoto's biography of her. Even if it was totally inaccurate (although I doubt that it was), he did a good job of really showing who MM was and that at the end of her life she was being controlled by a really horrible man.

Bookish, she's one of my heroes too.
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BookishLookish
06/02/09

@apocalypse-nowish: I admire her struggle. She started with nothing, not even a parent's love. You would really like the Leaming. It's a bit dry, but the facts she unearths are irrefutable: MM fought against J. Edgar Hoover like a tigress!
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bess marvin, girl detective
06/03/09

@BookishLookish: awww, you sad because i don't agree with you? maybe those your husband's ex had more than one reason to not like you
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bess marvin, girl detective
06/03/09

@BookishLookish: ah NOW i see why you're REALLY irate with me. you're still smarting from that little argument we had months ago. so in addition, you hold grudges AND you're petty.

and in regards to my blog, stupid or not, the quote stays up. see it as a pat on the back. every bitch has its day. you are no different.
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BookishLookish
06/03/09

@bess marvin, girl detective: Oh, goodness. I have no beef with you, little girl. You don't like Marilyn, that's your aesthetic failure. And I have no idea what "argument" you are talking about. Except now you have shown everyone that you are a sad and vicious little twat, and I really don't care to chat with those.

Cojalo suave, sister. Thanks for the private PM, too!
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