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‘I Told You I Was Trouble’: Amy Winehouse, 10 Years Gone

23 Friday Jul 2021

Posted by marina72 in Amy Winehouse, Anniversaries, Music

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This photo, taken by Roger Sargent, shows Amy Winehouse on Brighton Beach in July 2004, before that night’s show at Concorde 2. She was 20 years old, promoting her debut album, Frank, and wowing the locals. When she returned two years later, her ‘Rehab’ single was a runaway hit and her second album, Back to Black, would become one of the 21st century’s essential records. Continue reading →

At 95, Marilyn is Still in Bloom

01 Tuesday Jun 2021

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Art and Photography, Books, Brighton, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Updates

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#Marilyn95, Brighton, Carl Perutz, Graffiti, Happy Birthday Marilyn, Hotel Del Coronado, Larry Schiller, Lawrence Schiller, Marilyn and Me, Marilyn Monroe, Public Art, Queensbury Mews, Some Like It Hot, Something's Got To Give, Street Art, Taschen, The Postman

Today, June 1st, marks what would be Marilyn’s 95th birthday. As the sun shines over Brighton for what seems like the first time since lockdown, this latest artwork from The Postman (based on a 1958 photo by Carl Perutz) has appeared in Queensbury Mews. Continue reading →

Marilyn and Me: The Starlet and the Spy

15 Monday Jun 2020

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Ji-min Lee, Korean War, Marilyn and Me, Marilyn Monroe, The Starlet and the Spy


Ji-min Lee is a Korean novelist and screenwriter. Her first novel published in English is set in the aftermath of the Korean War. “This book was inspired by two photographs,” Lee explains. “One was of a female interpreter at work, standing between a UN soldier and a North Korean POW.” The other, printed in the end-pages, was of Marilyn Monroe performing in Korea for the American military. “I had the same question when I saw those two pictures,” Lee continues. “Where did all the beautiful and hopeful young women go?” Continue reading →

A Birthday Wish for Marilyn

01 Monday Jun 2020

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Books, Marilyn Monroe, Updates, Websites

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ES Updates, Everlasting Star, Marilyn Monroe, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl

Today marks what would be Marilyn Monroe’s 94th birthday. It’s also ten years since I started my sister blog, ES Updates (affiliated to Everlasting Star, the longest-running online forum about Monroe.) Whereas on this website I cover a range of subjects in mostly long-form pieces, ES Updates is dedicated solely to Marilyn with shorter, more frequent posts relating to all aspects of her life and legacy. So if you’re looking for ways to celebrate her birthday, please head over to ES Updates and subscribe to the daily email bulletin; and for a deeper dive, read my novel, The Mmm Girl. (The photo shown above was taken by László Willinger in 1950 to promote one of Marilyn’s first important roles in All About Eve, which turns 70 this year.)

‘Keeler, Profumo, Ward and Me’

23 Sunday Feb 2020

Posted by marina72 in History, Politics, Profumo Affair, Television

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“The story that defined a decade of great change in Great Britain was my big break in Fleet Street, and I covered and loved every moment of it, from the ridiculous to the tragic …”

Tom Mangold, described in The Times as ‘the doyen of broadcast reporters’, began his career as an investigative journalist on Fleet Street before moving into television as a foreign correspondent, and has since made over 100 documentaries, including many for the BBC’s Panorama. But like many others drawn into the Profumo Affair, Mangold has never quite moved on from the 1963 scandal which still leaves more questions than answers.

Keeler, Profumo, Ward & Me is the third documentary on the subject in which Mangold has played a prominent role within the last decade: BBC Radio Four’s Profumo Confidential, which he presented, and ITV’s Sex, Lies and a Very British Scapegoat both aired in 2013, fifty years after the event. And as BBC1’s six-part drama, The Trial of Christine Keeler, sets the rumour mill in motion again, its final episode was followed immediately by Mangold’s latest account on BBC2. Continue reading →

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