02 Friday May 2014
Posted in Books, Fiction, Interviews, Marilyn Monroe
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My interview with novelist Charles Casillo, author of The Marilyn Diaries, is posted today at Immortal Marilyn.
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14 Tuesday Jan 2014
Posted in Anniversaries, History, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl
After a two-year romance, Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio in San Francisco on January 14, 1954. Sadly, they would part just nine months later in a blaze of recrimination and heartbreak. However, the couple remained friendly until Marilyn’s death. Joe was devastated by her passing, and sent roses to her grave each week for twenty years. He never remarried, and is the only one of Monroe’s three husbands never to discuss their relationship with the press.
This extract from my novel, The Mmm Girl (2007), revisits the day of their wedding, exactly sixty years later. Continue reading
04 Sunday Aug 2013
Posted in History, Marilyn Monroe
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Abraham Lincoln, Arthur Miller, Bement, Carl Sandburg, Civil Rights, Emancipation, Gettysburg Address, Jacqueline Rose, Marilyn Monroe, Slavery, Thomas Keneally
Milton Greene, 1954
On the 51st anniversary of Marilyn Monroe‘s passing, I explore her admiration for Abraham Lincoln. This article can also be read at Immortal Marilyn. Continue reading
28 Friday Jun 2013
Posted in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe
One of Stern’s most popular ‘Marilyns’, at the Staley Wise Gallery, NYC
The American portrait photographer Bert Stern, famed for his provocative images of Marilyn Monroe and others, died aged 83 on June 26th, 2013, the New York Times reports.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be reviewing his work here and at ES Updates.
But first, here’s a personal tribute from artist and photographer Mary Ann Lynch, who met Mr Stern at a New York gallery opening, in April this year. Continue reading
19 Wednesday Jun 2013
Posted in Art and Photography, Books, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals, The Mmm Girl
Photo by Peter Gonzalez
This is the newspaper image I used for the cover of my novel, The Mmm Girl, and I still love it. The warmth, innocence and hopefulness in Marilyn’s eyes, as if to say – “Cheers, no tears…”
Posted by Peter Gonzalez to the Marilyn Mexico Facebook group
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