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Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe

18 Monday Jan 2021

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Poetry

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Carole Boston Weatherford, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane, Verse Novel, Young Adult

The front cover image presents – in extreme close-up and suffused in glitter – all the facial attributes of a screen goddess: the bedroom eyes, red lips, and of course her beauty mark (cut into the dustjacket.) And yet, she’s both familiar and strangely not herself: a dazzling mask. Only when the jacket unfolds and the iconic image is revealed in full can we be certain this is Marilyn Monroe, from the same photo shoot that inspired Andy Warhol’s first silkscreens. Beneath this vivid mask, a glossy black hardcover is embossed with a short verse in white font: “No one knows/how it feels/inside my troubled mind/No one wants to.” Continue reading →

2020: A Year in Film

30 Wednesday Dec 2020

Posted by marina72 in Books, Brighton, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Television

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A Year in Films and TV, Andrew Patterson, August Wilson, Beanpole, Billie, Billie Holiday, Brighton, Calm With Horses, Carole Lombard, Chadwick Boseman, David Lynch, Day By Day With Marilyn, Diana Rigg, Duke of York's Brighton, Edward Norton, Eliza Hittman, Eva Riley, Film Noir, George C. Wolfe, Hollywood's Hard-Luck Dames, James Erskine, Kantemir Balagov, Laura Wagner, Linda Manz, Lucky Grandma, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Morgan, Motherless Brooklyn, Neo-Noir, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Nick Rowland, Perfect 10, Russia, Sasie Sealy, The Last Interview, The Vast of Night, Tsai Chin, Veronica Lake, Viola Davis

Photo by Curtis Tappenden

This photo was taken in Brighton just two winters ago, but it already feels like a distant memory. Founded in 1910, the Duke of York’s is the oldest operating cinema in Britain, and I’ve been a customer, on and off, for the last quarter-century. The last film I saw there, back in February, was (ironically) Parasite. After four months in lockdown the Duke’s reopened in July, but by October its parent company Cineworld had announced that all theatres would close indefinitely. Now this grand old building is boarded up, a sorry sight – and it’s just one of many venues facing an uncertain future. I’ve really missed the cinema, though streaming has offered an alternative of sorts. As an old friend told me recently, we all need a little glamour in our lives – and so I hope 2021 is kinder to the arts than this year has been. Continue reading →

All About ‘The Marilyn Report’

12 Saturday Sep 2020

Posted by marina72 in Marilyn Monroe, Updates

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Blogging, Blogs, Earl Theisen, ES Updates, Marilyn Monroe, The Marilyn Report

Earlier this summer, my sister blog ES Updates celebrated its 10th birthday. Now I’m looking to the future with a new, fully-independent blog, The Marilyn Report. ES Updates will remain online, but if you’d like to continue hearing all the latest news about MM, please subscribe here. (This lovely photo of Marilyn was taken by Earl Theisen in 1947, shortly after she signed her first contract with Twentieth Century Fox.)

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 →

Sal Jones Gives Christine (and Marilyn) the Last Laugh

12 Friday Jun 2020

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Profumo Affair

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A Smile is a Smile, Background Bob, Christine Keeler, Cliveden, Nahum Baron, Noah Jones, Profumo Affair, Sal Jones, The Last Laugh, Thursday Club

London-based artist Sal Jones, whose paintings were featured in the recent exhibition, Dear Christine: A Tribute to Christine Keeler, has painted another portrait, ‘The Last Laugh,’ based on a candid photo taken by the pool at Cliveden during that fateful summer of 1961. Continue reading →

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