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Some Kind Of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe

04 Sunday Aug 2019

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

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In 1954, Marilyn Monroe was rehearsing ‘Do It Again’ as part of her show for U.S. troops in Korea, when the officer in charge of her tour deemed the Gershwin standard “too suggestive,” and insisted she change the title to ‘Kiss Me Again.’ “People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of as a person,” she remarked in her memoir, My Story. “They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts.” Her comment inspired the title (and epigraph) for a new book, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe by Amanda Konkle, assistant professor of literature and film studies at Georgia Southern University. Continue reading →

‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’

09 Saturday Feb 2019

Posted by marina72 in Film, Theatre

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Albert Finney, Anouk Aimee, Audrey Hepburn, Billie Whitelaw, British Cinema, Charlie Bubbles, Erin Brockovich, Gabriel Hershman, Gumshoe, John Osborne, Karel Reisz, Kitchen Sink Drama, Laurence Olivier, Liza Minnelli, Miller's Crossing, New Wave, Orphans, Salford, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Scrooge, Shelagh Delaney, Stephen Frears, The Dresser, The Gathering Storm, Tom Jones, Tony Richardson, Two For The Road, Winston Churchill, Woodfall Films

Albert Finney was born in Salford in 1936. His father, Albert Sr., was a bookmaker. He attended Salford Grammar School and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). After graduating in 1956, he worked in the theatre, and was an understudy to Sir Laurence Olivier. Continue reading →

Biba and Beyond

07 Thursday Feb 2013

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Brighton, Fashion and Beauty, History

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Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Hulanicki, Biba, Boutique, Brighton, Kate Moss, Kensington, London, Poland, Twiggy, Warsaw

Barbara Hulanicki, the fashion designer who founded Biba, the iconic 60s boutique, spent her formative years in Brighton. She is now the subject of a major retrospective, Biba and Beyond: Barbara Hulanicki, at Brighton Museum and Gallery in the Pavilion Gardens until April 14th. Continue reading →

Broken Embraces

21 Sunday Mar 2010

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Arthur Miller, Audrey Hepburn, Broken Embraces, Marilyn Monroe, Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz

Broken Embraces (2009) is the fourth collaboration between Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and his ‘muse’, actress Penelope Cruz. As his earlier films with Carmen Maura and others attest, Almodovar is skilled at bringing out the best in his actors, particularly women. In the early 2000s, Hollywood snapped up Penelope Cruz and, partly due to her romance with Tom Cruise, she became internationally famous. But her most interesting work has been in her native Spain, with Almodovar. Continue reading →

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