Comments on: Marilyn Revealed

By: Dbrown

Dbrown — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:09:34 +0000

Thank you for posting this review on schwars’ book I was about to start reading it but found it’s introduction to be off putting. This book is nothing but an attempt to make money out of false controversy. If anyone here gets a chance to really watch Marilyns films you will see a very good actress who is using a lot of painful emotions that are all her own. I would suggest you all see The Misfits, Niagara, Bus Stop, and The Prince and the Showgirl.

By: Women’s Review of Books: Three Biographies About Marilyn Monroe, All By Men « Kanlaon

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:58:36 +0000

[...] Now we have three more biographies: The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Revealed, and The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. As has long been typical of Monroe biographies, the authors [...]

By: marina72

marina72 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:12:40 +0000

Hello Lois! Thanks for reading my posts, it’s lovely to hear from you. I’ll email you!

By: lois banner

lois banner — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:10:54 +0000

Tara: I enjoyed your review of Schwartz and Taborelli very much, although you liked the latter better than I do. I have a book coming out on Marilyn with Harry Abrams next September–it’s the Vanity Fair article cleaned up. I did a provenance on all the items.
I’m going to be in London over Christmas–Brighton, I know isn’t far away. Would love to see you and talk about Marilyn. I’m here, in Los Angeles, close to sources on a lot of things, but of course I don’t have Randy T’s team of researchers. I think you are right on target about the childhood molesting. Where can I find the Liz Smith statement on Tab’s evidence? I think I know who her impeccable source is.
Did I ever send you my article on Marilyn that was published in Cinema Journal? I’m doing a review of Schwartz, Tab, and the very flawed book on Marilyn and Arthur by Jeffrey Meyer for the Women’s Review of Books, here in the US.
I feel guilty that I haven’t been in touch before, but for the past three semesters I’ve had 170 students in my classes. I taught a class on Marilyn last spring. Really a success!

Lois Banner

By: marina72

marina72 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:40:02 +0000

Thanks to you both for your excellent responses! Ian, I'm fascinated yet repelled by celebrity. The media will always search for sensation, and who hasn't got some kind of flaw? There's a playground mentality to it all. Sandy, I am the author of The Mmm Girl, a novel about the life of Marilyn Monroe. There's more info here - thanks for your interest!

By: sandy

sandy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:08:42 +0000

Lovely subject of depth to the ones really interested and involved in it….. would like to read more if u have anything in store

By: Ian Smith

Ian Smith — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:31:05 +0000

Fascinating. Thanks for posting this. I’m interested in the nature of celebrity and the way people want it and then whey they have it, they want it on their own terms. It’s an interesting idea that Marilyn would be condemned today as a “shallow wannabee”. Who isn’t condemned for something? Too thin, too fat, too old, too young. Did you see a model wearing Marilyn’s ‘bare back’ dress on the Antiques Roadshow recently? It drew astonished gasps from the blushing onlookers.