Gratuitous sexual violence and sketchy creative licence makes this movie difficult viewing
Marilyn Monroe aficionados are flocking to Warsaw to see pictures of the bombshell and other stars snapped by celebrity photographer Milton Greene.
It is a decision one imagines the Hollywood star might well have embraced: Marilyn Monroe, according to a new legal ruling, belongs to everybody.
The first thing you notice when you see Marilyn Monroe’s gloves in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is how small her hands were.
Hollywood siren shot to fame in Howard Hughes’s film <em>The Outlaw</em>.
The Hollywood siren, who shot to fame in Howard Hughes’s film <em>The Outlaw</em>, died at her home in California.
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/ 2 November 2009
A second attempt to sell a crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe’s final resting place has failed, with not a single bid received for the burial spot.
He’s been described as science’s first real rock star and the most famous physicist never to win a Nobel Prize. He knows black holes and p-branes inside out and he’s headed for South Africa. Cambridge Professor Stephen Hawking, author of the best-selling A Brief History of Time, arrives in Cape Town this week to deliver a public lecture, his first on the African continent.
The exploitation of the private lives of celebrities, even dead ones, by the United States entertainment industry is again under the spotlight after a Los Angeles company released a 45-minute video purporting to show a sexual encounter with Jimi Hendrix.
A 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for ,5-million, the broker of the deal said on Monday. Monroe is clothed and the man’s head remains out of the frame for the entire 15 minutes of the film.
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/ 13 February 2008
Allan Grant, a Life magazine staff photographer who captured such historic moments as the atomic bomb tests in the Nevada desert to some of the last photos of Marilyn Monroe before her suicide, has died. He was 88. Grant died at his home in Brentwood on February 1, said his wife, Karin Grant.
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/ 6 February 2008
Australian actor Heath Ledger’s death was an accident caused by the abuse of prescription drugs, six of which were found in his body, the New York City medical examiner’s office said on Wednesday. Ledger (28), renowned for his role as a gay cowboy in the 2005 movie Brokeback Mountain, was found dead in bed at his Manhattan apartment on January 22.
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/ 11 November 2007
Norman Mailer would probably not have wanted an old man’s death. He would have preferred some other way — an accident, a bar fight or a lover’s brawl — so that his death, like his life, could inspire or appal or, above all, make people talk. But Mailer, a giant of American literature, died of renal failure on Saturday in a New York hospital bed.
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