Word: marilyn
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...common was anger. While it may be true that Warhol used to kiss the Manolo Blahnik boots of the stars, in some of his Polaroids of the famous at play you sense the same undertow of loathing you find in his silk-screened portraits of Marilyn and Liz. Likewise with Galella. His pictures can remind you of Susan Sontag's observation: "To photograph someone is a sublimated murder...
...parent company of Universal Pictures, for four decades; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman worked nights as a movie usher in high school. After impressing an MCA executive while promoting talent for a Cleveland nightclub, Wasserman was hired and went on to represent such clients as Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart. Fiercely protective of his stars, Wasserman kept Clark Gable's drunk-driving arrest and Betty Grable's premarital pregnancy out of the papers. He revolutionized the film business, breaking the hold of studio contracts that locked up actors, embracing television and, with Jaws, inaugurating...
...spoke as a graduating senior at the event nearly 30 years ago, and according to friends, managed to mix in Marilyn Monroe jokes and a jab at the Class Day speaker that year, playwrite Arthur Miller...
...middle of the store sits a cardboard box filled with oversize, bug-eyed sunglasses, straight from the ’70s. On shelves lining the walls are arrayed Marilyn Monroe lunchboxes and statuettes of Elvis Presley standing next to a Harley Davidson motorbike. Behind the counter, a shelf holds fancy hairbrushes, combs and perfumes that can usually be found only in Europe...
...largest collection of Studebakers in North America, if you don't count Phillips in Bismarck, N.D., with his to-say-the-least questionable "rebuilt" engines. I don't think so. How do you like these Zippo lighters--1,110, if you're counting. I certainly am. What about my Marilyn Monroe movie furniture, my Trekkie memorabilia, my Daisy Buchanan, my Holy Grail, my double helix? Call me obsessed? What do you think of this church ceiling? Took me 10 years hanging in air to get the God's-hand-to-Adam right. Do you think I did get it right...