Word: marilyns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since her death ten years ago this week, Marilyn Monroe has attained the pop pantheon of nostalgia. Books have been written about her, poems have apostrophized her and artists from Andy Warhol to Claes Oldenburg have portrayed her in painting and sculpture. Now, to celebrate-and cash in on-her legend as the last of the movie sex goddesses, Los Angeles Journalist Larry Schiller has collected 185 photographs of Marilyn by 15 top photographers for an exhibition at Los Angeles' David Stuart Galleries...
...samples on this page indicate, the photographs trace Marilyn's growth from teen-ager to star, catching her in all of her many moods. "I wanted to show how she changed," says Schiller, "from pimples and pigtails, in and out of baby fat as she went through traumas." Schiller is preparing 30 copies of the exhibition to tour other U.S. cities, and he is also negotiating with several book publishers to reproduce it in a hard-cover memento of the Monroe magic...
...production of Bizet's Carmen, staged by Gentele himself. Before rehearsals begin on Aug. 1, the Met needs to find a new stage director modest enough to carry out Gentele's ideas. Only a week before Gentele went to Sardinia, he wrote to Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Home, his Carmen: "The production is rolling along smoothly. At this point, the only person who could ruin it would be the director...
...1950s never took Marilyn Monroe very seriously. Only after she died in 1962 from an overdose of sleeping pills did the world learn just how seriously she wanted to be taken. Aside from her ambitions as an actress, she tried poetry, which interested Carl Sandburg enough for him to request copies of three short works. Published in the August McCall's, they mirror Marilyn's somber side. Samples...
...town of Binger (pop. 730), which he describes as lying "two miles beyond Resume Speed." Binger is also near the heart of Last Picture Show country (Johnny guffawed appreciatively at the movie's realism). The third son of Ted and Katie Bench (there is also a daughter Marilyn), Johnny prospered in the kind of aggressively athletic household that can send a young man to the big leagues or the psychiatrist's couch. His father, a onetime truckdriver and furniture salesman, had been a semipro catcher. It was his idea for Johnny to become a catcher; he reasoned that...