Marilyn Monroe News

“There are miracles. There are miracles happen to everybody.”

Marilyn Monroe aka Norma Jeane Baker, is still creating news. Close to 46 years after her untimely death on August 5, 1962, the immortal Hollywood Queen and legend is still topic for rumors, speculations, ... via PR-inside.com

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“Some of my favourite vocalists are acting in themselves”

Scarlett Johansson's decision to record an album, when she's barely started as a movie star, seems at first glance capricious. via The Independent

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“The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test", there was Schiller covering the acid generation and the Merry Pranksters for Life. And so on. "Several people have commented that I was in all these places when important things were taking place”

Legendary photographer, journalist and film director Lawrence Schiller will bring the Harrowing Sixties back to life when he opens an historic exhibit of his photography at Pop International Galleries on May ... via Art Knowledge News

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“Verdura got involved with his clients. He designed for them and socialized with them.”

At a Bonhams fine jewelry sale in late April in London, one of the rarer lots was an amethyst and aquamarine parure, including a ring, bracelet, pendant earrings and a necklace set with 880 carats of amethysts. via International Herald Tribune

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“The best role I've ever played is the one I'm playing now -- that of Mrs. Arthur Miller.”

GOOD MORNING: The No. 1 item in story confabs at 20th-Fox is finding a good yarn for Marilyn Monroe. via Variety

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“More work is needed to identify the biological mechanisms that underlie these perceptual differences, but growing evidence points to the impact of hormones on the larynx as being the source of these changes”

A woman's voice becomes more attractive to both men and women at the point in her monthly cycle when she is at her most fertile, according to a study of vocal changes during ovulation. via Popsugar.com

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“What do I mean by not realistic enough?”

Billy Pappas spent nearly 8 1/2 years on one drawing. He knows about obsession.

'I can't just be an artist with modest success,' he says about halfway through Waiting for Hockney, a documentary showing at this weekend's Maryland Film Festival, chronicling the near-decade he spent trying to commit a single image of Marilyn Monroe to paper. 'I've got to be Michelangelo.'

How well Pappas compares to Michelangelo is for others, and for posterity, to decide. But Waiting for Hockney certainly paints a portrait of an artist with a singular, unique vision, and Pappas was willing to endure almost anything to realize it. Read more

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“A sex symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.”

It should have been obvious from the start: In the long history of Hollywood sex symbols, no one can compete with the legend of Marilyn Monroe. via Florida Times-Union

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“But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.”

The curvaceous alternative opera star Katherine Jenkins has always had a thing about Marilyn Monroe - and jumped at the chance to dress in her style, says Hilary Alexander In pictures: Viva la Diva Blonde, with ... via Telegraph.co.uk

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Caption: Katherine Jenkins. at British Academy Television Awards . held at London Palladium - Arrivals. via ContactMusic.com

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