A coffee table book can be the ultimate interior finishing touch , but the new book Marilyn & Me is also perfect for flipping through for hours and briefly imagining yourself in the life of a glamorous actress and sex symbol who managed to define an era.Text: Fleur de Jong
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The book shares the intimate story of legend Marilyn Monroe and a young photographer starting his career. ''You're already famous, now you're going to make me famous,'' photographer Lawrence Schiller told Marilyn in 1962. Schiller's photographs and vivid stories manage to take you back to that time with humor and at the same time compassion. With more than 100 photographs, including rare outtakes from the set of Marilyn's last film, the result is an unexpected portrait that captures the star in her final months. She died in August 1962 at the age of 36.
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To get an even better look into the icon's life, the Netflix movie "Blonde" was already on the horizon. When it was recently announced that the film would not premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the surprise was great. It is now clear that Netflix thinks the biography starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn is too sexualized. Among other things, the film contains a rape scene.
Netflix wants the film to be shelved, but director Andrew Dominik thinks otherwise and refuses to completely change the script. Andrew Dominik previously told that it will be one of the ten best films ever and, unlike his previous films, it contains little dialogue.
There is no specific release date for the film yet, at least it is clear that we will have to wait until 2022 to see the blonde shine on the big screen...Photo: Netflix
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