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...Times Five,” dwells, as if under hypnosis, on the increasingly nude form of nubile Monroe-doppelganger Arline Hunter. The same images, placed further ahead in time each cycle, play over “I’m Through With Love,” a song from Monroe??s film “Some Like It Hot.” Many of Conner’s other films feature nude or scantily clad women, usually juxtaposed along footage concerned with violence, disaster or population explosion. The artist seems in search of a sort of mimesis...
...Marilyn Monroe??s first husband James Dougherty—the only unknown in a string of infamous lovers, the only one who fell for the actress when she, too, was an unknown—had spent the rest of his life loving her, chasing her, trying to tame her after she’d left him, his memoir would have read like Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel, “The Bad Girl.” While Marilyn is probably the original Bad Girl, the novel’s titular bad girl is no less...
...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...
...life for Harvard was a “pretty big change,” Moore says. “As far as study habits, I had not been used to putting in this amount of time.” There was also the anticipated culture shock. “Monroe??s a pretty conservative place, so I didn’t see a lot of diversity. There are so many different types of people here—it’s very liberal, very open-minded,” Moore says...
...genetic females in the crowd seem equally in tune with Monroe??s iconic status. “She’s a larger than life figure who’s very tragic,” says Dawn Kipphut, a Cambridge movie buff who works in customer service. “I mean, she died alone. And she had to change a lot about herself to become the icon...