Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kinkel's favorite CD, Nevermind, by Nirvana: "Death/ With violence/ Excitement/ Right here/ Died/ Go to hell ... Take a chance/ Dead." It's not completely clear what Kurt Cobain had in mind with these lyrics, but they are lush with nihilism. Luke Woodham listened to goth rocker Marilyn Manson, and Mitchell Johnson to rapper Tupac Shakur. One doesn't have to support censoring any of these artists to see that hurt, isolated kids may not understand any intended symbolism...
Among the guests: John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Streisand's mother, songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman (the only invitees who knew the wedding date well in advance; all others were invited on short notice over the phone), "Tootsie" director Sidney Pollack, designer Donna Karan (who made the wedding dress), music producer Quincy Jones and composer Marvin Hamlisch, who conducted a 16-piece orchestra playing "Here Comes the Bride." Despite one L.A. newscast's report that Streisand's close friend President Clinton planned to cut short his China visit in order to attend...
...tragic ironies of our celebrity age that our puffing-up of the famous in their lifetime is surpassed only by media frenzy that follows their death. While those celebrities who die young--Diana, JFK, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Kurt Cobain--remain forever young and full of promise in the public imagination, tragically, they have already left the stage when the applause for them is loudest and the spotlight brightest...
...there's Monica on a grassy dune in Malibu, dressed in blue jeans and a red-and-white checked shirt that bring to mind a picture of Marilyn Monroe. There's Monica in a smoky black dress and Monica in a full-throated laugh. And there's Monica making eyes at the reader from behind a raft of pink feathers channeling the fan dancer Sally Rand--a young woman teasing the world with the prospect that one of these days, she's gonna let it all show...
What he captured so adroitly about our culture, our culture clearly wants more of. Just last month, Sotheby's sold his Orange Marilyn, 1964, for a new Warhol record at auction: $17.3 million. Somewhere St. Andy is smiling...