Marilyn Monroe would have been 80 years old today.

[tuvor]

[RagingInMiami]

1. And there would be no "Candle in the Wind"

[asthmaticeog]

2. And she still looks just teriffic!

[MiniMandaRuth]

5. ......

:puke:

[Amaya]

9. LOL!

:spray:

that's funny.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. and she'd be barely prominant in the public eye

just like all the other 60s bombshells like shelly winters who were forgotten in old age. her exaggerated status as an icon is based soley on dying young

[tuvor]

4. You don't know that.

After all, many of us still recall another bombshell named Lauren Bacall from the 40s and 50s, who's still alive and well and liberal and hardly forgotten.

My point: You don't know how MM would be regarded today, and neither do I. If you want to be grumpy, go to GD.

BTW, she was more of a 50s bombshell.

[DemoTex]

8. Or being murdered young.

One never knows. She did know way too much.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. ...

Interviewer: An excerpt from Carl French's latest film. Carl, we're all a little mystified by your claim that your new film stars Marilyn Monroe.

Carl French: It does, yes.

I: Who died over ten years ago.

CF: Uh, that's correct.

I: Are you lying?

CF: No, no, it's just that she's very much in the public eye at the moment.

I: Does she have a big part?

CF: She IS the star of the film.

I: And dead.

CF: Well, we dug her up and gave her a screen test, a mere formality in her case, and...

I: Can she still act?

CF: Well... well, she-she still has this-this enormous, ah-ah, kind of
indefinable, uh... no.

I: Was decomposition a problem?

CF: We did have to put her in the fridge between takes.

I: Ah, what sorts of things does she do in the film?

CF: Well, we had her lying on beds, lying on floors, falling out of cupboards, scaring the children, ahm ...

I: But surely Miss Monroe was cremated?

CF: Well, we had to use a stand-in for some of the more... visible shots.

I: Ah! Another actress.

CF: A dead actress. But Monroe was in shot the whole time.

I: How ?

CF: Oh, in the ash tray, in the fire grate and vacuum cleaner...

I: So Marilyn does not appear in the film.

CF: Not as such.

I: Mr. French, you're one of the film world's most arrogant queens. I mean not just homosexual or gay or anything, I mean you are a raving queen.

CF: Well, yes.

I: I mean, a real screamer, a real "Whoops! Get out! Don't mind me dear!" limp-wristed caricature.

CF: Is that not in order?

I: No, no, that's fine. And I understand that you married the beautiful black heiress Huwena Tanoy partly for the publicity but mostly to cover up the fact that you prefer going out with little boys.

CF: Look, really!

I: Carl, you're an offending little poof, a mincing gay-bar loiterer, a winnet-covered walking perfume shop and an evil perverter of innocent little boys!

CF: What!? Really! ...Is this part of the interview?

I: No, no, I just wanted a few contacts.

CF: Well... well, shouldn't we be talking about the film?

I: Oh, we've been off the air for ages. Now, where'd you find them?

CF: Look, I think we ARE still on the air.

I: Oh, sod the fucking air! Do you just still get locked up for that sort of thing?

CF: What about the film?

I: Just a few addresses, please...

CF: Look, we've got James Dean in it, in a box!

I: I... I can turn the microphone off if you like...

CF: And bits of Jayne Mansfield...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear tuvor......

Hard to believe, huh?

80......that's a lot of years.......

So she was born in 1926.......hmmmmm......


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