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Nov. 18, 1960: One glance at the front page shows the Mirror was nothing like The Times — but all of that is going to change in a little more than a year…. Paul Coates writes about the problem of alcoholism in the Soviet Union …. and Jim Dougherty goes on a date with Norma Jean Baker in Chapter 5 of Maurice Zolotow's biography of Marilyn Monroe. Also on the jump, Chester Otto Weger describes beating three women to death at Starved Rock State Park in Illinois. |
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I love this Monroe bio. Please continue the next installment.
WHY has there not been a quality movie made of her life?? By a good director, a Scorsese, who can do quiet drama too? Getting beneath the hackneyed nympho girl who rises to the heights until drugs—and her Kennedy involvement—bring her down? Would be interesting to see the set of the Misfits recreated, with Marilyn driving Gable crazy to death, her last film she couldn’t complete, give the viewer of the sense of how she drove film people nuts, the Playboy shoots for the first issue, DiMaggio, Miller, her attempts to learn acting at the Actors Studio, her love of male adulation, her needy reasons, beyond the cliches, the whole michigas. What a story that could be.
As for the Coates pieces back in the USSR, we know the Sov U was drab and dreary and generally kaka, but his tone is so unremittingly heavy on the societal failures of rule under communism, how would you characterize it except as ordered by his editors, to beat it to death with as big a shovel as he could wield in print?
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