04 Friday Sep 2009
Trades Of The Flesh is Faye L. Booth’s second novel – her first, Cover The Mirrors, was published in 2007. Both books are set in late 19th century Preston, and feature young, working-class women thriving in unconventional ways. Cover The Mirrors’ Molly Pinner worked as a medium, and Trades’ Lydia Ketch is a prostitute. Booth allows readers to reconsider existing views of Victorian morality, and shows how ordinary women negotiated degrees of independence in unlikely settings. Continue reading
10 Wednesday Jun 2009
Posted in Film, History, Marilyn Monroe, Updates
‘Jean Genies’ by Ken Martin
American Bombshells: Marilyn and Jean Harlow, my latest addition to the ‘Marilyn’s Heroes’ series, can now be read at Immortal Marilyn. While researching and writing the article, I was struck by the empathy Marilyn felt for Harlow and the string of coincidences and uncanny parallels between their lives.
Jean Harlow was the original ‘blonde bombshell’ and a gifted comedienne. Her films are quite hard to find but are worth tracking down on Amazon.com, and are regularly screened on TCM. For further reading, I can recommend David Stenn’s Bombshell (for his definitive text) and Eve Golden’s Platinum Girl (for the pictures.) And online, film historian Lisa Burks has created ‘The Platinum Page’, an excellent website and blog devoted to Harlow’s life and work.
In other news, I have decided to conduct a series of interviews with writers and other people who interest me. My first subject will be David Marshall, author of The DD Group and Life Among The Cannibals. So please do revisit soon or subscribe (see top of page) to keep up with future developments, and as always, thanks to my loyal readers for your support.
10 Sunday May 2009
Posted in History, Marilyn Monroe
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The DiMaggios, Boston, January 1955
Dom DiMaggio, former centre fielder for the Boston Red Sox, has died aged 92. Known as the ‘little professor’ because of his bespectacled appearance and short, skinny build, Dom played major league baseball for ten seasons. Continue reading
28 Sunday Sep 2008
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Marilyn and the Kennedy brothers
My new article for the ‘Twilight’ series, Marilyn And Bobby Kennedy, has now been published on Immortal Marilyn
25 Thursday Sep 2008
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‘Snuffed Candle’, by Ken Meyer Jr
I have contributed another article to Twilight, the ongoing series profiling the major players in events surrounding the death of Marilyn Monroe. In this piece, I consider her controversial relationship with President John F. Kennedy. You can read it now on the Immortal Marilyn website.
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