What is the fascination with Marilyn Monroe?

It's not her fault you are still a virgin

runn wrote:

I didn't say she wasn't beautiful. In fact I said she WAS. I also said I have friends more beautiful- that's true.

When I was a 10 or 11 year old even 15 years after her death she was the golden standard for a sexy American woman. At the time maybe only Farrah Fawcett or Suzanne Summers were the current sex symbols.

Marilyn Monroe was still the icon for up to 25 years after her death.

break it up wrote:

runn wrote:

I didn't say she wasn't beautiful. In fact I said she WAS. I also said I have friends more beautiful- that's true.

When I was a 10 or 11 year old even 15 years after her death she was the golden standard for a sexy American woman. At the time maybe only Farrah Fawcett or Suzanne Summers were the current sex symbols.

Marilyn Monroe was still the icon for up to 25 years after her death.

Yes and she is still beautiful and would be today if she were around. I just don't think she had talent.

runn wrote:

I didn't say she wasn't beautiful. In fact I said she WAS. I also said I have friends more beautiful- that's true.

OK, sure, keep telling yourself that.

(and even if you DO really think it is true, ever heard of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" ?? My point: you might think you have friendS more beautiful, but must wouldn't.)

(when in god's name is the Marilyn blow j0b movie clip going to be released?? Some guy owns it and is keeping in the vault. SOB)

Dimaggio took uppers. It was and still is legal to use PEDs in baseball.

MM went to Van Nuys High School.

Wow Unbelievable wrote:

Elvis was 42 and bloated, doing terrible shows in Vegas. I'm not sure we need to wonder much about what "might have been"

Sadly, that's where you're wrong. True he was 42 and bloated, but he was selling out every show in Vegas. He had successfully transformed himself from black leather Elvis to white sequined Elvis. His fan base was huge; he had Graceland, hooking up with that young hottie 'Cilla, and was drafted. He had mystique about him, despite growing into a drug addicted, peanut butter and banana sammy eating, die in the crapper country swooner.

42 is has-been age for today's young stars , but go back to the 50s, 60s and 70s, my friend. People loved their Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Rock Hudson, The Rat Pack, Doris Day, John Wayne, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. These people left legacies. When they died, people were affected. I can't explain it... maybe there are too many celebrities today. Let's face it... the only modern(?) celebrity to even come close to the mimicing the fascination of Marilyn Monroe is Michael Jackson, and by your standards (50, dyed himself white, and trying to do a comeback tour), people should have given up trying to figure out "what might have been".

I'm not saying he wasn't still popular. But the quality of those shows was hardly great. In fact, he was having breathing problems by the end.

Happens a lot when folks die pretty young like James Dean and even Pre (although I gotta say I know no one who is an enthusiast of either Dean or Monroe). Tie in a death under strange circumstances and you got a lot to go on.

Great example of Any Rand completely ignoring reality to suit her own philosophy (that was shaped by her searing hatred of communism she developed as a child in Russia). She's a great read and inspiring to adolescents worldwide, but should never be taken seriously by adults. Sheesh.

Listen to Arthur Miller if want to learn who Marilyn Monroe really was. She wanted desperately to be taken more seriously, then again didn't know what to do when she was given that opportunity. Very sad story.

Ridiculously sexy in photos and not by accident IMO.

douglas burke wrote:

a little known fact she once had a relationship to former baseball star joe dimaggio who still has the major league record for hits in consecutive games at 56.

A little known fact: Kim Kardashian once had a relationship with Kris Humphries, who toiled in the NBA in relative obscurity until their relationship.

number 5 with a rose wrote:

she would be a plus size model these days

No she wouldn't! That's just a story fat chicks like to tell each other. Here are Marilyn's stats, as told by her dressmaker:

5'5.5", 118 lbs., 35-22-35, d-cup bra