In the decades following her death, Marilyn Monroe has been exalted as the human embodiment of bygone Hollywood glamour and unmatched sex appeal but recently, she has been given another accolade: the counterweight to our culture’s ever-thinner beauty ideal. The oft-invoked argument centers around the declaration that Monroe was a size 8/10/12/14 and if she were alive today, she would be considered overweight and probably, never would have been a star. (These claims are inherently problematic because women’s apparel sizing has varied considerably over the years, rendering numbers utterly useless as indications of proportion and because such conjectures are speculative and sensational in nature.) Continue reading
Marilyn Monroe
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We FINALLY have something more to go on than a teaser trailer and it actually looks pretty good! Also, British critics that have seen the film were wowed by Streep’s performance. However, close friends of the former prime minister think it is an insult to her legacy. Even some critics were quick to write it off as a, “silly and suspect picture.” However one critic went on to say that it is a “performance of towering proportions that sets a new benchmark for acting.” That kind of praise is exactly what Meryl needs to win another Oscar and maybe even a little controversy wouldn’t hurt. Continue reading
Debbie Reynolds has spent much of her career being a wonderful actress and the subject of her daughter, Carrie Fisher’s, rants. She has also spent fifty years collecting some of the most iconic pieces of movie history, in hopes of having a museum for all to enjoy them. Well, Hollywood doesn’t care about history and apparently no one is interested in building a place for sweaty tourists to shuffle through in their flip-flops, gawking open-mouthed at Charlie Chaplin’s hat or Marilyn’s white hot dress from The Seven Year Itch. So, Reynolds will auction off everything in her 5000 item collection, called Profiles in History, over the course of ten days, beginning on June 18, 2011. Review the catalog of impressive items here, and then buy a little something for yourself.