Word: marilyn
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...Picasso that will be written by anyone who knew him well. Richardson, now 67, first met the artist when he was living in France in the early 1950s; their rapport lasted 10 years, and the young English art critic kept ample notes. With the assistance of art historian Marilyn McCully (whose speciality is turn-of-the-century Barcelona, where Picasso's talent was incubated), Richardson has mined a large seam of material. He was, for instance, the first biographer allowed to consult Picasso's own archives. He knows the work intimately, and is skilled at teasing out its recurrent strands...
...long after getting fired from her last, unfinished movie, Marilyn Monroe sent a telegram to Robert Kennedy. In it she declined an invitation to visit the Kennedy clan, making an odd, wistful joke by way of explanation. She was too busy "protesting the loss of minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars," Monroe said. "All we demanded was our right to twinkle...
...Marilyn: Something's Got to Give includes interviews with an array of people who took part in the filming, from producer Henry Weinstein to the former child actors who played Monroe's children. Wonderful nuggets of Marilyniana emerge. Her insecurities led Monroe to demand that a blond extra be tossed off the set and later to complain that co-star Cyd Charisse was padding her bra. When the Shah of Iran visited the Fox lot, Monroe refused to meet him until she found out Iran's position on Israel...
...joined the Music Corporation of America, as it was then known, at age 22, it was a talent agency specializing in booking bands into nightclubs. As it grew, MCA picked up the nickname the Octopus for controlling more than half the top stars in the business, including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Stewart and Bette Davis. Wasserman became MCA's top agent. As president of the company in 1949, Wasserman began producing television shows. In 1962 he bought Decca Records, which owned Universal Pictures, and dropped the agency business...
...sweating and grunting has redefined the cultural parameters of female attractiveness -- away from soft curves toward a more athletic body. For proof, just compare pop icon Madonna to her prototype, Marilyn Monroe. On her Blond Ambition tour, Madonna flashed chiseled biceps and deltoids, so impressing one Los Angeles critic that he wrote that instead of the customary audience call for "Author! Author!" the cry from Madonna's fans should be "Fitness trainer! Fitness trainer!" Tennis ace Martina Navratilova also notes the changing standards. When the Czechoslovak-born athlete defected to the U.S. in 1975, she was so embarrassed...