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The Final Years of Marilyn Monroe

14 Thursday Oct 2010

Posted by marina72 in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction

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Cal-Neva, Keith Badman, Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Timothy Leary

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Keith Badman is a British music journalist who has published books about The Beach Boys and The Beatles. Badman has spent the last five years researching and writing about Marilyn Monroe, and The Final Years is the result. In his introduction, Badman writes, ‘I forensically set about my task of separating the fact from the fiction…My intention was simple: to deliver, in book form, the most honest and accurate account of this period ever published.’ Continue reading →

Roy Ward Baker 1916-2010

12 Tuesday Oct 2010

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Don't Bother To Knock, Marilyn Monroe, Roy Ward Baker

Roy Ward Baker, the Englishman who directed Marilyn Monroe in Don’t Bother to Knock, has died aged 93. Continue reading →

Brighton Writes

30 Thursday Sep 2010

Posted by marina72 in Brighton, Updates, Websites, Writing

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Brighton, Creative Future

Brighton Writes is a new blog from me, in association with Creative Future, a charity for marginalised artists and writers. I’ll be covering news from the region – and beyond – on the arts, with a special emphasis on literature, getting your voice heard and also mental health and related social issues.

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please subscribe to Brighton Writes and invite your friends.

And this website will continue as usual, of course!

Hollywood Mythmakers: Marilyn and James Bacon

23 Thursday Sep 2010

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Howard Hughes, James Bacon, Joe Schenck, Marilyn Monroe, Wrong Door Raid

Marilyn Monroe at the Photoplay Awards, 1953

James Bacon, the entertainment reporter whose career spanned an incredible sixty years, has died in Northridge, Los Angeles of congestive heart failure, while sleeping. He was 96.

Born in Buffalo, New York in 1914, Bacon studied at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, from 1933-36, dropping out in his final year after his parents lost their home in a flood. He completed his journalism degree in 1943 at Syracuse University, and served in the Navy. Bacon’s career in Hollywood, writing a syndicated column for Associated Press, coincided with the rise of Marilyn Monroe and the final phase of Hollywood’s ‘Golden Era.’ Continue reading →

‘That Orphan Charm’: Marilyn and Kevin McCarthy

20 Monday Sep 2010

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Arthur Miller, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Joe Dante, Kevin McCarthy, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, The Misfits, Twilight Zone

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Actor Kevin McCarthy, who played a small but pivotal role in Marilyn Monroe’s last movie, died of pneumonia at Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, Massachusetts, on September 11, 2010, aged 96. Continue reading →

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