27 Thursday Mar 2008
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
Veteran Hollywood actor Richard Widmark has died aged 93. A former teacher, he found fame playing the bad guy in Kiss Of Death, and went on to appear in classics of the ‘film noir’ genre such as Pickup On South Street, Judgement At Nuremberg, and Don’t Bother To Knock with Marilyn Monroe. Continue reading
24 Sunday Feb 2008
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
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Marilyn by Eve Arnold, 1955
“A brilliant, believable read…a weird and wonderful look into Marilyn Monroe’s life, from her childhood in foster homes and orphanages to her many marriages and relationships and her eventual death…though her fame certainly adds something, this would have been a really interesting read even if she wasn’t a well known name…inspiring and entertaining…a proper, engaging story that is a really fun and educational read. I learnt a lot, not just of the actress’s love for pills and booze but also about the politics of the day, but at the same time it didn’t seem at all like a history lesson.”
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09 Saturday Feb 2008
Posted in Marilyn Monroe
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Photographer Allan Grant, who took the last official photographs of Marilyn Monroe in July 1962, has died aged 88.
To learn more about Grant’s long career, click here
To read his account of working with Marilyn, click here
27 Sunday Jan 2008
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
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David Marshall, author of The DD Group: An Online Investigation Into The Death Of Marilyn Monroe, has reviewed my novel, The Mmm Girl.
“When reading The Mmm Girl, one can not help but realize that all previous attempts never quite got it – that elusive something special that made Monroe so incredibly unique…for those who have come to their own personal understanding of Monroe’s character and tale, for perhaps the very first time they will now be able to find ‘their Marilyn’ right there in print, all of her thoughts and actions captured in book form…Tara Hanks, who had never met Marilyn Monroe, let alone interviewed her or shared time with her, succeeds so far beyond other authors…it takes not only talent but heart to tell the story right. Tara Hanks has both.”
To learn more about David, click here
Now read the review in full: Continue reading
25 Friday Jan 2008
Posted in Marilyn Monroe, Poetry
Sylvia Plath once dreamed of Marilyn Monroe, as a 1959 diary entry shows:
Marilyn Monroe appeared to me last night in a dream as a kind of fairy godmother. I spoke almost in tears of how much she and Arthur Miller meant to us (her husband and herself) although they could, of course, not know us at all. She gave me a manicure. I had not washed my hair, and asked her about hairdressers, saying no matter where I went, they always imposed a horrid cut on me. She invited me to visit her during the Christmas holidays, promising a new, flowering life.
To learn more about Sylvia, click here
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