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Archive for March, 2009

The Last Goddess

Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, tagged , , on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Abrams Discoveries series is a range of small paperbacks covering notable subjects in history, art, music and science. It provides a detailed but succinct look at individual topics, and a reference point for further study.
Marilyn Monroe would doubtless have been amused to find herself scrutinised alongside King Arthur, Salvador Dali and the ancient Greeks. [...]

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Joseph Jasgur 1919-2009

Posted in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe, tagged , on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Photographer Joseph Jasgur has died aged 89. Jasgur worked with Marilyn Monroe in 1946. She was then a 19 year-old aspiring model, still known as Norma Jeane Dougherty. Jasgur remembered her as ‘a shy girl, nothing like a typical model…with two sets of clothes – one she had on, and one in the laundry.’

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Makeover Time

Posted in Updates, tagged on March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Hi everyone,
I’ve recently merged my main website with this blog. You can now find everything right here, and my domain name has been changed to tarahanks.com. The older, .org address remains open until July, and will redirect all visitors to here. (So if you’re currently linking to my old website, please update – thanks in [...]

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