"Everything popular is wrong," said Oscar Wilde, my all-time favorite writer and quite possibly the most quotable person to walk this bitter earth since the cut-off date for eligibility for inclusion in The Holy Bible. But even Wilde had his off days, occasions when overstatement got the best of him. While I have a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to anything or anyone embraced by the masses, to stick to such a sweeping generalization about them would be to occasionally miss some very good points. Sometimes popular people, the ones otherwise known as celebrities, actually [...]
Il 25 aprile 1917 nasceva a Newport News Ella Fitzgerald . La cantante, scomparsa il 15 giugno 1996, è stata una delle più importanti artiste jazz della storia. Ha vinto qualcosa come 13 Grammy, con un'estensione vocale di più di tre ottave. Nel corso della sua carriera ha attraversato numerosi generi musicali, come lo swing, bebop, blues, samba, gospel e calypso. Ma c'è una curiosità che non tutti forse sanno: Marilyn Monroe le cambio la vità . In meglio. Non ci sono solo i nomi di Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong, Norman Granz, o Dizzy [...]
Electra Heart è il prossimo album di Marina And The Diamonds , esplosa anche grazie al brano " Primadonna " che ha conquistato anche con il passaparola. E la cantante ha ammesso di essersi ispirata a Madonna , Marilyn Monroe e Maria Antonietta. Il suo stile e il suo look si sarebbe ispirato proprio a queste grandi figure storiche femminili. "E' ispirato da Marilyn Monroe, Madonna e Maria Antonietta. Madonna è una persona coraggiosa, senza paura. E' stata demolita così tante volte!" Il nuovo anno è stato definito come un [...]
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Photo by G. Bob Monroe? Marilyn Marley? Marley Monroe? Glad to see that this artist has raised the stakes a tiny bit when overusing two of the most overused icons in art. <!-- Share/Save
A new exhibition at London's Getty Images gallery charts Marilyn Monroe's rise from aspiring actress to Hollywood icon. Drawing on a range of largely unseen archive photos, the show – which marks the 50th anniversary of Monroe's death, and runs until 23 May – includes rare video footage and a selection of memorabilia Monroe in Hollywood agent Johnny Hyde's backyard in Beverly Hills, 1950. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images [...]
A new exhibition at London's Getty Images gallery charts Marilyn Monroe's rise from aspiring actress to Hollywood icon. Drawing on a range of largely unseen archive photos, the show – which marks the 50th anniversary of Monroe's death, and runs until 23 May – includes rare video footage and a selection of memorabilia Monroe in Hollywood agent Johnny Hyde's backyard in Beverly Hills, 1950. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images [...]
Most of these have never been seen in public before. Julien's Auction House is selling a treasure trove of photos from the private collection of Monroe's makeup artist and confidant, Allan "Whitey" Snyder. Read more »
Most of these have never been seen in public before. Julien's Auction House is selling a treasure trove of photos from the private collection of Monroe's makeup artist and confidant, Allan "Whitey" Snyder. Read more »
Among those who know me, it's common knowledge that I'm lukewarm on Michelle Williams. I recognize her talent, but could there possibly be a name with less star quality? For the first third of My Week with Marilyn , now (finally) playing in Australia, I kept wondering why she didn't change it to something more marquee worthy. It sounds like it should belong to a now-forgotten former school mate who sat behind you in English class and got A's on everything, or the girl in Destiny's Child that nobody really cared about. Off screen, in interviews, [...]
Among those who know me, it's common knowledge that I'm lukewarm on Michelle Williams. I recognize her talent, but could there possibly be a name with less star quality? For the first third of My Week with Marilyn , now (finally) playing in Australia, I kept wondering why she didn't change it to something more marquee worthy. It sounds like it should belong to a now-forgotten former school mate who sat behind you in English class and got A's on everything, or the girl in Destiny's Child that nobody really cared about. Off screen, in interviews, [...]
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<!-- <!-- <!-- Another unreleased record of unknown origin from Nicki Minaj has surfaced. Produced by Dr. Luke. Tags on this one. Here is the full and untagged version of 'Marilyn Monroe' that was released before. Spotted at Jams.to . Previously: Nicki Minaj & Will Smith Nickelodeon Teen Choice Awards [...]
At first this sounds like a rejected Beyonce album track. Then it sounds like some drunk bitch swigging cough syrup and missing her intro. THEN it suddenly sounds fucking amazing and i don't really know why. Maybe cause I got distracted by her tits or lipstick or something. Rhyming 'arrogant' and 'Marilyn' isn't what I learnt during my degree but I'm pretty sure Brianna is balling whilst i'm eating Tesco value soup for lunch, so go die Portsmouth University. There's loads of chat about Nicki Minaj dropping a [...]
Nicki Minaj spent the past year more or less conquering the world (a rise punctuated by a Super Bowl performance with Madonna today). But on the bittersweet new "Marilyn Monroe" (actual recording date as yet unknown), Nicki confides that she's still battling insecurity and self-doubt. Is this her secret audition to take Katy Perry's place on Broadway ? (Or not.) Go blonde with Nicki below. "Just call me blessed / If you can't handle my worst / You ain't getting my best / Is this how Marilyn Monroe felt?" [...]
Jolz Sunday afternoon spent in the P George w friends and the NICKI MINAJ has opted for singing in her MARILYN MONROE leaked mp3. How many hours till the Superbowl ???!
Few Hollywood stars of the 1950s and 1960s were so compelling, so utterly unique, that they actually came to define the era in which they worked and played. Marilyn Monroe was one of those stars. From her earliest days as an actress until late in her career — when she had, against her will, been cast in the public eye as the century's ultimate Sex Goddess — Marilyn posed for LIFE magazine's photographers. Many of those pictures never ran in the magazine — and, in fact, were never published anywhere. This gallery changes all that. [...]
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