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...furious, I'm outraged and I'm disgusted. If Arne Duncan cannot guarantee our protection, he should not have that job." - Marilyn Stewart, president of the Chicago teacher's union, after two laptops containing the names and social security numbers of 40,000 teachers were stolen from the district, Chicago Tribune, April...
...created an erotic illusion in men's minds - clouded and clarified them - without the airbrushing and soft focus of the Playboy nudes, without the sexy repartee that screenwriters gave Marilyn Monroe. Bettie was the sole creator of her myth; she was her own auteur. But her gifts were best appreciated in motion, not in repose. To express and exploit them fully, she needed to be liberated from the pages of Eyeful and Titter and be seen in pictures that moved. Enter Irving Klaw...
...auction for nearly $25,000. Grace Kelly requested that it be served at her wedding to Prince Rainier, Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 1961 Oscar win over a bottle of it, and Aristotle Onassis was known to keep a chilled bottle at the ready at Maxim's restaurant in Paris. Marilyn Monroe, a devout fan of Dom Pérignon '53, sipped it throughout fittings for the dress she wore to John F. Kennedy's birthday celebration in 1962 and stocked a whole car full for a road trip with Danish paramour Hans Jorgen Lembourn. On the silver screen, its status turned...
...rignon was Marilyn Monroe's favorite Champagne 2 A statue of Dom Pierre Pérignon 3 A bottle of Dom Pérignon 1993 Oenothèque 4 The Benedictine Abbey of Hautvilliers, outside the town of Epernay, France. Pierre Pérignon became the cellar master there in 1668, at age 30, and held the post until his death in 1715 5 Sean Connery, as James Bond, reaches for a bottle of Dom Pérignon in the 1964 film Goldfinger 6 Drew Barrymore, with Cameron Diaz, holds up a bottle of Dom Pérignon en route to the premiere of Charlie...
Fifty-five years ago, sex went mainstream. Since debuting in December 1953 with a snapshot of Marilyn Monroe gracing its cover, Hugh Hefner's Playboy helped thaw America's once-frigid attitude toward human sexuality. Playboy remains the genre's big kahuna, and its stew of titillating photo spreads, risqué party jokes and, yes, interesting articles was the original recipe for success in the pornographic magazine business. But the strange, seamy history of smut on paper neither began nor ended with Hef's brainchild...