And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My sainted father had a photo of Marilyn wearing a Georgia Tech sweater hanging near his home bar. As a 10-year-old, I would look at her breasts sticking out of the sweater and wonder lustily if I would ever see them naked.
At age 25, any woman that doesn't look good should be ashamed of herself. MM had her moments, but I never saw her as anything but a plastic fantastic, and a negative lesson in how to be famous.
Never thought she was pretty. So many better starlets that were sexier
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely agree, just part of a mass marketing by Hollywood. Reminds me of all of the adulation given Scarlett Johannsen.
DeleteHave you seen the opening of Lost In Translation?
DeleteWatched that movie for the first time last week. She’s a petty girl with a ton of charisma.
DeleteWonderful photo of her, her natural feminine essence shines thru.
ReplyDeleteHer hat is backwards
ReplyDeleteIt's called a "snood." Look it up.
Deletewho is it
ReplyDeleteI was a teenage when she was in her Hollywood prime and she didn't a thing for me, but obviously the turned Joltin' Joe on
ReplyDeleteMy sainted father had a photo of Marilyn wearing a Georgia Tech sweater hanging near his home bar. As a 10-year-old, I would look at her breasts sticking out of the sweater and wonder lustily if I would ever see them naked.
ReplyDelete***SIGH!!!***
Thought that was Bea Benaderet initially.
ReplyDeletePut Marilyn in a room with Gene Tierney and you'd be throwing rocks at Monroe.
ReplyDeleteAt age 25, any woman that doesn't look good should be ashamed of herself.
ReplyDeleteMM had her moments, but I never saw her as anything but a plastic fantastic, and a negative lesson in how to be famous.