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
19 Saturday Jan 2008
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
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Here is a link to Fraser Penney’s review of ‘The Mmm Girl’ on the Immortal Marilyn fansite – and while you’re there, check out all the new updates. Many thanks to all at IM for your support.
“You actually feel it’s Marilyn’s thoughts and words you are reading. You can almost hear her voice in your head…a personal insight into Marilyn’s world and the people she knew, from her own perspective…this really gives the book it’s edge and a great authenticity which makes it less like a novel and more like an autobiography, had Marilyn written one… a great deal of sensitivity, giving Marilyn’s “words” dignity and her story the respect it deserves…Tara writes in such a tender and tasteful way you imagine Marilyn herself would have written with the same beautiful sublime style…instead of being too explicit or provocative it’s just right, very sensual but sensitive to the reader’s taste at the same time.”
Tara Hanks 
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