Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MARILYN MONROE is a goddess. Albert Einstein is a genius. Joe DiMaggio is a hero. Joseph McCarthy is a villain...
Inevitably, and with allowances for the sexual revolution, Marilyn wins...
...fact Theresa Russell's pouty, luscious incarnation of the blonde bombshell is about the only reason to stay with this film after the novelty of its first half hour wears off. As Marilyn in her pre-platinum youth, Russell looks more like Kathleen Turner than Norma Jean Baker, but what's a little makeup among sex symbols? Besides, she so dominates her every onscreen moment that it's difficult not to chastise the superhumanly chaste Einstein for declining her offer of a roll...
While insurance companies point out that they are increasing premiums for many other types of liability coverage because of a general increase in lawsuits, day-care operators think they are being unfairly stereotyped. Says Marilyn Smith, director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children: "If insurance companies would look at them individually, they would find that not all these day-care centers are high risk." The skyrocketing premiums could bring higher fees for day-care tuition and even put some centers, especially small ones, out of business...
...Star William Hurt, 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...