Tag: Marilyn Monroe
American Fashion Is A Potato Sack
Of all the themes to come up with for a reentry into the “real world” red carpet (as opposed to the virtual one), it seems [Read More…]
The Reality Is, As a Twenty-Six Foot Statue in Palm Springs Or Not, Marilyn Was Still A Sex Symbol
She said it herself: “If I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather have it sex than some other things we’ve got symbols [Read More…]
If We Have to Use the Term “White Allyship” As Another Means to Praise Whites Let Us Also Study the Differences Between Marilyn Monroe/Ella Fitzgerald vs. Taylor Swift/Amira Rasool
Taylor Swift, for as much as she writes in her songs about being condemned and maligned by both the media and the diabolical force in [Read More…]
“LA Who Am I To Love You” Is The Norma Jeane Baker Explanation For the Inexplicable Pull to the City Where People Will Never Say “Damaged” Like It’s A Bad Thing
As Lana Del Rey begins to roll out the audio for her spoken word poetry album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, while we await [Read More…]
Bus Stop: A Film That Didn’t Do Justice to How Marilyn Monroe Fought to Break Free From the Studio’s Stereotype of Her, Nor Is It Much of an Acting Stretch From Her Own Life
Marilyn Monroe had spent months waiting out her unprecedented studio battle with 20th Century Fox. After fleeing to New York from Los Angeles like some [Read More…]
Sofia Coppola Creates A “Best of” Chanel Homage, Eliciting Yet Another Unwanted Revelation About the Present
“A woman is not all the time the same. Sometimes we’re very cooperating. But sometimes we are very difficult. But being difficult is possibly being [Read More…]
The Defunct Ability to Lampoon Presidents With the Marilyn Monroe “Happy Birthday” Shtick
In 1993, the inauguration of Bill Clinton left the Gen X denizens of the U.S. with a sense of potential hope for the future. Well, [Read More…]
Hormones Are Wasted on the Young: Monkey Business
While there is so much wasted on the self-conscious, yet simultaneously overly arrogant young, perhaps even more than youth itself being unjustly expended on them [Read More…]
National Anthem: The Politicism of Lana Del Rey Before Lust for Life
Lana Del Rey has generally been regarded as an artist that was not very political in her work up to 2017’s Lust for Life, an [Read More…]
Some Like It Hot & Married to the Mob: Correlations
With Swing Shift and Something Wild, director Jonathan Demme established himself as a comedic force to be reckoned with in the 80s, much of his [Read More…]
