Word: marilyns
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...gold Rolex believed to have been given to President John F. Kennedy by Marilyn Monroe...
...London fish restaurant has seen some famous faces over the years, including Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe. James Bond creator Ian Fleming discovered the delights of a martini, shaken not stirred, at the bar, while the joint was mentioned in the Hollywood classic The Great Escape as a dream destination after the war. It had lost its luster by the time it was acquired in 2005 by Caprice Holdings?owners of Le Caprice, the Ivy and J. Sheekey?and then closed for a multimillion-dollar renovation...
Americans love self-made men and women. And who was ever more literally self-made than Anna Nicole Smith? Described by acquaintances as a flat-chested teen, she shaped, nipped and tucked herself into a living hood ornament. She styled herself � la Marilyn Monroe and then, after fighting drug problems and ballooning, whittled herself down as a spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet supplements. According to her mother, she even invented her childhood, mythologizing her middle-class upbringing into a hardscrabble one, like Jay Gatsby in reverse. Feral, brazen and vacant, Smith was not talented in most usual senses...
...whole affair represents something sordid about our obsession with on-screen perfection. We have moved from adult admiration of Marilyn Monroe’s alabaster complexion to perfectly crafted and precociously sexualized children. I don’t like to think where Hollywood will take us next...
...been seen in previous exhibitions. In each city, local artists and professionals are invited to add pieces to the core collection of works. Two such figures contacted for the project’s Harvard debut were Alfred Guzzetti, Hooker Professor of Visual Arts at Harvard, and Boston-based artist Marilyn Arsem.These additions ensure that the exhibit reflects local tastes to some extent. “You’re not always getting the same sort of ‘New York artists’ or artists in textbooks,” explains Lambert-Beatty. Lambert-Beatty...