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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17 Thursday Apr 2014
Posted in Film, Lana Del Rey, Music
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Allen Ginsberg, Anthony Mandler, Bel Air, Body Electric, Charles F. Haanel, Elvis Presley, Gods and Monsters, Jesus Christ, John Wayne, Lana Del Rey, Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe, New Thought, Paradise, Tropico, Walt Whitman
“I prefer to bask in the legend of people I’ve only heard about,” Lana Del Rey writes in a memo given out at the premiere of her short film, Tropico, in December 2013. “To me – they are as real as the people sitting in this theater.” Continue reading
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
21 Monday Oct 2013
Posted in Books, Fiction, Interviews
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Abraham Lincoln, Arthur Miller, Canada, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn's Mindset, Mark Twain, Norma Jeane's Wishes In Time, Norman Mailer, Ray Bradbury, Science Fiction, Stuart P. Coates, Time Travel, Whispers Across Time
An interview with Stuart P. Coates, the Canadian author of three science fiction novels (two of which feature a time-travelling Marilyn Monroe.) 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
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