Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British Journalist Anthony Summers provides some sensational theories, but he is obviously chary of conclusions and wary of lawsuits. Readers of Goddess will learn far more about Marilyn's fragmented life than of her sorry demise. Some of the tale is overfamiliar: the battered childhood, the teenage bride, the nude photos, the Hollywood parabola, the famous marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller...
...wanted to be a musical-comedy star, and "I plan to be a success," said Vanessa Williams after winning the 1984 Miss America title. But the shock of her nude photos in Penthouse nine months later cost her the title and all likelihood of immediate stardom. In the year since, she has been slowly working her way back, with a forgettable guest shot on a TV detective series last fall and a turn among the many performers at last month's reopening of Harlem's Apollo Theater. This week at Manhattan's South Street Theater, she gets...
While she was here, she left her mark on the school. "I started a life-drawing group," she says, "but when some people found out we were working with nude models, it was discontinued...
...press conference, the director received a tart surprise: a pie in the face. The culprit was, reportedly, a man outraged by Godard's previous film, Hail Mary, a somewhat irreverent modernization of the nativity story (Mary is portrayed as a cabdriver's girlfriend and is shown in the nude) that earned a rebuke from no less a reviewer than Pope John Paul...
...Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck; and Jesus turns out to be a turbulent toddler who exclaims, "I am the one who is," leading Joseph, behind the wheel of the family car, to reply, "Shut up and get in." For good measure, Mary, played by Myriem Roussel, has several nude scenes. Godard, 54, has replied to the criticism with questionable contrition: "If we, producers of sounds and image, have sinned, it was only in approaching, with the too young pride of modern cinema, she who Georges Bernanos had written was 'younger than sin'-- the Virgin Mary...