“My copy has paint on it – which is the semi-official way of saying that it is love. I keep it in my studio…”
‘The Mmm Girl’ in Boston
20 Sunday Jun 2010
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Moon in the Gutter
20 Sunday Jun 2010
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Donna Tartt, Emily Bronte, Frida Kahlo, Jeremy Richey, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Moon in the Gutter, Tara Hanks
Jeremy Richey has interviewed me about my influences – books, films, movies and more – over at his wonderful ‘Moon in the Gutter’ blog. Well worth checking out for Jeremy’s insightful reviews, ten of which are published in a new book, Directory of World Cinema: American Independent.
The Meaning of Marilyn
13 Sunday Jun 2010
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals
Philippe Halsman, 1952
Dr Lois Banner, professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California, considers three recent MM biographies in this month’s Women’s Review of Books, and discusses the difficulty of ‘deconstructing Marilyn’.
Banner is currently writing a scholarly study of Monroe for Bloomsbury Press, An Uncommon Woman: Marilyn Monroe as an American Icon of Passion and Power.
Dr Banner at USC
Lois Banner on Amazon
My own reviews of recent Monroe literature can be found here
Everlasting Star
01 Tuesday Jun 2010
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June 1st marks what would have been Marilyn Monroe’s 84th birthday. With this in mind, I’m launching a second blog today. ES Updates is part of the Everlasting Star community, which I first discovered back in 2004.
Maf the Dog, and Marilyn
23 Sunday May 2010
Posted in Books, Fiction, Film, Marilyn Monroe
Photo by Eric Skipsey, 1961
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of his Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O’Hagan – my review… Continue reading
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