Word: marilyns
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...memories of that day remain vivid for anyone who was or knew a high school student at the time. Attempts to identify the “cause” of the murders became a morbid national pastime, with the media and high profile Congress members simplistically blaming everyone from Marilyn Manson to the National Rifle Association for the boys’ lethal actions. Even Michael Moore’s wry and often insightful investigation of the tragedy, last year’s Oscar-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine, ultimately descended into a disappointingly reductionist argument which seemed to place personal...
Reading music in this way is, of course, an imprecise science. There are other ways to interpret our favorite bands shifting from bright to dark, or from abstract to political, other ways to read the rise of angry white rap; and there are, obviously, counterexamples. Marilyn Manson’s shock-rock, after all, peaked at about the same time as the internet boom. But Marilyn Manson is a countercultural figure, not a figure of the modern American Zeitgeist. Manson will be remembered as a diversion, but our memories of 2002 may well be soundtracked by Eminem, who tapped something...
...visible talent at the Yale Drama School ... [Director] Harold Clurman ... informed Kazan that his only gift was excessive energy. But that, of course, is a quality too often underestimated by intellectuals ... [Kazan had] more brief affairs than he can count or recount-including one with a cheerfully complaisant Marilyn Monroe. 'Sick,' Kazan pronounces, then adds, 'People make fun of the male crisis at 45. I had that crisis all my life. I knew there was more to life than I was getting, and I didn't want to miss out on anything...
...script, by the Coens, John Romano, Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone, sets Miles Massey (George Clooney), a Beverly Hills divorce lawyer with fabulous teeth and midlife ennui, against gorgeous, oft-married Marilyn Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Miles is beguiled by her beauty and cunning, and she might be attracted to him, if he hadn't weaseled her out of a fortune and if she weren't about to marry a Texas zillionaire (Billy Bob Thornton...
...turned to the one punk-accessory warehouse he could think of: the Pfoho open e-mail list. “Dear Pfoho,” wrote Hines, “I need you to dress me up! Essentially I need to be an odd mix of Marilyn Manson and Kid Rock, with a bindi (I can get my own bindi). If you think you have any clothing/accessories in these categories that would fit a 5’10” 150 lb male, we need to talk...