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...obviously chary of conclusions and wary of lawsuits. Readers of Goddess will learn far more about Marilyn's fragmented life than of her sorry demise. Some of the tale is overfamiliar: the battered childhood, the teenage bride, the nude photos, the Hollywood parabola, the famous marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller...
MARILYN MONROE is a goddess. Albert Einstein is a genius. Joe DiMaggio is a hero. Joseph McCarthy is a villain...
...playing an imprisoned homosexual in the Brazilian film Kiss of the Spider Woman, based on a novel by the Argentine Manuel Puig. Insignificance, which took the technical prize, was the official British entry, but its setting (Manhattan), cast (including Tony Curtis) and characters (fictionalized renderings of Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, Albert Einstein and Senator Joseph McCarthy) were uniquely American...
...fact, the best lines in this idiosyncratic little work are not from writers but from players, recollected over some four decades. Asked how he could look forward to playing a doubleheader in midsummer heat, Joe DiMaggio replies, "Well, maybe somebody never saw me before." Umpire Tom Gorman, distracted by Yogi Berra's wagging tongue, is asked, "Hello, Tom, how's the family?" Gorman: "They died last night. Get in there and hit." Pitcher Early Wynn defends his right to knock down anyone holding a bat. "Suppose it was your own mother," demands a listener. Replies Wynn: "Mother was a pretty...
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