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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...
...MARILYN DURHAM 246 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...said of First Novelist Marilyn Durham that she has the courage of her daydreams. The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing is basically pure feminine fantasy, but the treatment is so fresh and untroubled that the book is one of the most effective entertainments of recent months...
...Producer-Director Eleanor Perry, who has bought the book for the movies, has proclaimed it "the first Women's Lib western"-just what the movement needs. The remark is understandable because Catherine is ultimately stronger and less rigid than the men who try to run her life. But Marilyn Durham is not inspired by headlines. What she is doing is spinning her yarn in the age-old, instantly recognizable...