The FBI vs Monroe

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More Marilyn Monroe Photos Emerge

It was 1950, and Life photographer Ed Henry went to Griffith Park to shoot a little-known actress named Marilyn Monroe.
The photos show a 24-year-old Monroe walking among the trees and a creek in the park, modeling various outfits, sometimes reading a movie script.
Life says the photos somehow were stored away -- until now.
see them HERE

Monroe's Final Photos

Undated photo showing Buddy Greco, Marilyn Monroe, and Frank Sinatra presumably at the Cal-Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoe, in a photo from the personal collection of Buddy Greco. These photos are now available on eBay.

MARILYN Monroe's friend and jazz pianist Buddy Greco has revealed the last photograph taken of the actress, in which she is seen hugging him.
The unmistakable smile and shock of blonde hair peeking out from under a stylish headscarf mark one of the most famous faces of the 20th Century.
Only five days later the actress would be found dead, aged just 36.
The rare picture, one of a set, was taken at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in August 1962 as Monroe, Greco and singer Frank Sinatra enjoyed a relaxing weekend away.
Eighty-two-year-old Greco has kept the pictures to himself for more than 40 years, but has now decided to put them up for sale. more HERE
view photos HERE
bid HERE

H2Obama

Whitley Market on the corner of Highland and Franklin in Hollywood, California has seemingly jumped on the 'put-Obama's-face-on-anything-and-it-will-sell' band wagon . So, if you visit, look beyond the over-priced breath mints and there across from the Marilyn Monroe wine and the Elvis lighters you will discover Obama Water.
more HERE

'It' Girls Exposed

Despite Prohibition, the '20s was the decade of jazz, flappers and hip flasks. While some took their vote and joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement, others, well, took liberties. Compiled here for the first time are more than 200 publicity stills and photos of some of America's first "It" girls--the silent film-era starlets who paved the way for the cacophony of Monroes and Madonnas to follow.
When rare and striking portraits of these women surfaced on the internet, author Robert Hudovernik began researching their source. What he discovered was the work of one of the first "star makers" identified most with the Ziegfeld Follies, Alfred Cheney Johnston.
available HERE

Photo Finish

Many believe Celebrity photographer George Barris took the last pictures of Marilyn Monroe. However, it was actually Life Magazine’s photographer Allan Grant. The pictures were taken July 7, 1962 during an interview at her home. Six pictures appeared in Life including the one pictured above.
visit 10 Fascinating Last Pictures Taken HERE

Exclusive : 49th Annual Virginia City Camel Races

In 1959, Bob Richards, who as the editor of Virginia City's The Territorial Enterprise, wrote a fictitious account of the city's Camel Races to fill in some unwanted white space. The following year, he informed his readers of the upcoming races and was challenged by the San Francisco Chronicle, who had taken his article seriously. Also challenged were the Pheonix Gazette and the Indio Chamber of Commerce. Camels were leased from the San Francisco Zoo and the first race was held on C Street in Virginia City, Nevada.
This unique event gained immediate notoriety because Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, who were nearby in Dayton filming The Misfits, joined director John Huston for a day at the races. The San Francisco Chronicle's camel, piloted by John Huston, collected the trophy in the first ever Virginia City Camel Race.
more HERE

You can watch the 2008 version madness with Ostriches HERE and Camels HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE

Age Old Portraiture

Polish born photographer Andrzej Dragan has created these unique photographs showing well-known dead public figures aged according to today.
more HERE
official website HERE

Art, Death and Marilyn Monroe

Dead Marilyn

Marlene Dumas became the highest paid living female artist in 2005 when one of her paintings sold at auction for $3.4 million. She gets introspective about being blonde and painting another famous blonde, Marilyn Monroe, post-autopsy in an NPR podcast HERE
An exhibition of her work at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is HERE

Happy Birthday Marilyn

1926 - 1962

Marilyn Monroe would have celebrated her 82nd birthday on June 1st had she been alive today.
The photo above is a still clip from behind-the-scenes footage of Ms. Monroe on the set of her last fully produced feature film, "The Misfits." Two reels of that footage are on the auction block with starting bids of $10K to $20K apiece.

The two reels of silent 8mm color film, 47 minutes in length, titled "On Set with 'The Misfits,'" will be auctioned by Julien's next month at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
more HERE

Marilyn & Michael Meet Harmonie

In the late 1990s, Harmonie Korine established himself as one of the edgiest enfant terribles of American indie cinema, writing Larry Clark's controversial "Kids," which introduced Rosario Dawson and Chloë Sevigny, and writing and directing "Gummo" and "Julien Donkey-Boy."

Then nothing ... until now. His latest film is "Mister Lonely"

A Michael Jackson impersonator working in Paris meets a Marilyn Monroe impersonator, who invites him to come live at her commune where she lives with her husband, a Chaplin impersonator, and a band of other impersonators, including the pope (James Fox), Queen Elizabeth (Anita Pallenberg), Abraham Lincoln and a handful of others, including the Three Stooges, Shirley Temple and Sammy Davis Jr.
Mick LaSalle's review HERE

...Anita Pallenberg? that name hasn't been brandied about for quite some time...

Summer Smut Reader

"Hollywood Babylon: It's Back" comes out June 1, 2008 and includes full-frontal nude shots of Daniel Radcliffe, Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere, John Malkovich and more.

The book also claims Johnny Depp is known as 'donkey dick'...Sean Connery also has a big one.
Also in the mix:

• Marilyn Monroe had an affair with Ronald Reagan
• Marilyn had a fling with Joan Crawford, but ended it. Marilyn told Shelley Winters, "She had bad breath. Besides, she wanted to do things to me that no woman should do to another woman."
• James Dean showed a disconcerting interest in a 12-year-old boy. Elia Kazan, "I've known many actors who have been twisted up in their sex lives, but never anybody as sick and unhealthy as Dean was."
• Elvis Presley got it on with Nick Adams
• Lucille Ball was a hooker before she was famous. Desi Arnaz had a fling with Cesar Romero.
• Cary Grant had an incestuous relationship with his stepson
• Strange things happened to Judy Garland's dead body (this in the chapter on "Fan Worship and Necrophilia").

video HERE
pre-order book HERE

Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape

I guess most sex tapes eventually see the light of day, even if it is a million years later. A video featuring Marilyn Monroe giving oral to an unidentified dude was just sold to a New York businessman for $1.5 million.
The Post reports that the 15-minute video shot on 16mm film is from the 50s. When the video was discovered in the 60s, J. Edgar Hoover tried to prove the man in the movie was either John F or Robert Kennedy.
The silent film shows Marilyn kneeling in front of a man and performing oral on him. The dude's face is never in the shot. Marilyn also never looks up at the camera, so it's not known whether or not she knew about being filmed.
The movie has been in the hands of the FBI for a while, but a copy was made. Joe DiMaggio offered to buy it for $25,000, but his offer was turned down.
Keya Morgan, the collector that got his hands on the tape, said, "You see instantly that it's Marilyn Monroe - she has the famous mole. She's smiling, she's very charming, she's very radiant, but she's known for being radiant. She moves away, and then it [the footage] stops." Keya said the tape will never be released to the public. The dude that bought it wants to keep it private and will lock it away.

The Last Photo Shoot

MARILYN MONROE'S LAST PHOTO SHOOT was for Life Magazine in 1962 just two months before she was found dead of a drug overdose.
The shots of the iconic beauty at poolside were taken by photographer Lawrence Schiller on the 20th Century Fox set of "Something's Got to Give" - co-starring Dean Martin and Wally Cox - the famously problem-plagued film from which she was fired and rehired, and that was ultimately abandoned.
more HERE
a documentary was made too...see HERE

Faux Monroe

slideshow HERE

Playboy wants Lohan

After Lindsay Lohan's New Yorker spread, it seems Hugh Hefner has a Marilyn Monroe photo shoot plan of his own. He does own the crypt next to Ms. Monroe in the fabulous Westwood Park cemetery after all.
Lindsay did the New Yorker free of charge...we're guessing the Playboy offer will be WAY WAY North of that...

BUT REALLY...let's talk about her nipples...
I mean, from the angle in the shot above...the word CREEPY comes to mind....

Marilyn Madonna Mix-up

Las Vegas, Nevada - a 73 year old mechanic from Las Vegas said he found a grainy poster-sized photo at his home and believed it was a rare picture of Marilyn Monroe posing as a naked hitchhiker.
He called in Monroe expert Chris Harris, who confirmed it was genuine...
It wasn't...
BBC story is HERE

Learn more about the pics origin HERE
video HERE

Lindsay Does Marilyn

In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe that have collectively come to be known as “The Last Sitting.”
Forty-six years later, Stern has revisited his classic shots with Lindsay Lohan...
story w/slideshow HERE
more pics HERE