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Marilyn and Me: The Starlet and the Spy

15 Monday Jun 2020

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, History, Marilyn Monroe

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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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Andrew Lloyd-Webber, BBC, Caroline Kennedy, Christine Keeler, Cliveden, Ernest Marples, Eugene Ivanov, Geoffrey Robertson, George Wigg, Harold Macmillan, John Profumo, Keeler Profumo Ward and Me, Lord Astor, Lord Denning, Lord Hailsham, Mandy Rice-Davies, Natalie Livingstone, Profumo Affair, Stephen Pound, Stephen Ward, Thomas Critchley, Tom Mangold

“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 →

2019: A Year in Books

19 Thursday Dec 2019

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, Film, History, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Politics, Profumo Affair

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10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World, A Suffragette in America, A Year in Books, Alexander Baron, Amanda Konkle, Benjamin Levy, Bette Howland, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Casey Cep, Cash Carraway, Colson Whitehead, Dolores, Edna O'Brien, Elif Shafak, Ernesto Quinonez, Eve Babitz, Furious Hours, Girl, Guzel Yakhina, Hallie Rubenhold, Harper Lee, I Used To Be Charming, Inland, Jack the Ripper, Janine Booth, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Kamala Markandaya, Kerry Hudson, Latin Writers, Lauren Aimee Curtis, Lowborn, Marilyn Monroe, Minnie Lansbury, Murray's Cabaret Club, Nicole Flattery, Nowhere Man, On Swift Horses, Profumo Affair, Sabrina & Corrina, Selina Todd, Shannon Pufahl, Shelagh Delaney, Short Stories, Show Them a Good Time, So We Live, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Pankhurst, Taina, Tea Obreht, The Five, The Nickel Boys, Turkey, With Hope Farewell, Zuleikha

First published in 2015 as Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes and now available in English, Zuleikha tells the story of a Tatar woman whose brutish husband and vindictive mother-in-law treat her as a slave. This all changes around 1930 when along with other peasants and Leningrad intellectuals – a motley crew of ‘enemies of the state’ – Zuleikha is transported to a gulag in Siberia. Beside the age-old themes of tyranny and suffering, Zuleikha offers a surprisingly hopeful vision of how ordinary people can keep their wits and capacity for love, even in the direst circumstances. Continue reading →

The ‘Rain Girl’ in November

07 Thursday Nov 2019

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Jeanne Eagels, Theatre

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Broadway, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Rain, Sadie Thompson

As noted in the Playbill Vault, Jeanne Eagels began her legendary Broadway run as Sadie Thompson, “a prostitute at odds with a jungle missionary in Rain, primarily based on a W. Somerset Maugham quick story,” on this day, November 7, in 1922. We’re now just three years away from its centenary. Continue reading →

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