Marilyn Monroe

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"The Ancient Greeks had Oedipus. We have Marilyn."

Back in 1961, the New York Times ran a lengthy article to mark the 34th birthday of a Manhattan hairdresser who had already reached such a level of renown that the paper dispensed with its traditional practice of referring to a news subject by his surname and the title "Mr." Instead, it simply…

Fifty years ago, on August 5, in the early hours of a Sunday morning, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Brentwood home. Had she lived, she would have been 86-years-old.

We're a couple of months away from the release of Whitney Houston's last movie, Sparkle and now that I've seen the trailer, I feel a kind of sadness, and maybe even anger, that I didn't really experience even when she died.