Word: marilyn
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...movies at the Loews Theatre in Harvard Square seem to change quite rarely, the posters that adorn the theater’s façade change even less. These posters, one of Marilyn Monroe, and one an ad for Casablanca, are part of a mural which decorates the entire front of the theater. It was done by Joshua Winer, a 1986 graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the top while he was still a student here, the bottom, several years later. If you look up, above the ticket window and the marquee, you will see what...
...leading lady of Dance with a Stranger, is no relative of Joely's, but she handsomely fills her star-is-born role as Ruth Ellis, the London nightclub hostess who in 1955 murdered her boyfriend and became the last woman executed in Britain. Coiffed and coutured in the Marilyn Monroe fashion, Richardson shrieks her way through Ruth's sordid life with coloratura bravura. "I love you," murmurs David Blakely (Rupert Everett), a spoiled, sodden rich boy with a passion for racing cars and a taste for tarts. "Everybody does," Ruth shrugs. "Why should you be different?" An older man, Desmond...
...perfervid expectations drove Ruth to murder, Marilyn to fatal overdose. Metaphorically, both women "die of intimate exposure," to quote a character in Insignificance known only as the Actress (Theresa Russell) but plainly meant to represent Monroe. The other three main characters find real-life correlatives just as easily. Indeed, the plot could be synopsized as follows: What if Albert Einstein (Michael Emil) were threatened in his hotel room by Senator Joe McCarthy (Tony Curtis), then visited by Marilyn Monroe, who explains the theory of relativity to its creator, then interrupted by Joe DiMaggio (Gary Busey), who wants a divorce...
...made her first impression in a portrayal of Marilyn Monroe for the 1980 TV movie Marilyn, the Untold Story. But Catherine Hicks did not expect to impersonate another sex symbol when she signed up for Fever Pitch. Hicks, 34, plays a Las Vegas cocktail waitress named Flo who, it turns out, bears more than a passing resemblance to Marlene Dietrich. Hicks took on the look of the legendary German actress after Director Richard Brooks suggested that she dress like an old-time movie star instead of your typical casino bunny. "I always loved The Blue Angel," said the star...
Hudson is a sad symbol for many others. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), square-jawed and handsome, he gravitated naturally to Hollywood when he left the Navy after World War II. Henry Willson, the agent who turned Marilyn Louis into Rhonda Fleming and Arthur Gelien into Tab Hunter, thought it was appropriate that Roy Fitzgerald should become Rock Hudson, as solid as Gibraltar and as steady as the river that flows past Manhattan's towers. A series of B movies followed, and through hard work Hudson learned the craft if not the art of acting. He gave a fine performance...