NEW YORK — Only 11 years after her death, Elton John sang his ode to Marilyn Monroe. “And I would have liked to have known you, but I was just a kid,” went the lyrics. “Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.”
What John didn’t know was how much truer his words would ring a few decades later.
Monroe passed away a...
The first time I saw Marilyn Monroe, she was walking by a train in “Some Like It Hot,” and I was sitting in front of a black-and-white TV. I was 5 years old, and she was the most beautiful human being I had ever seen.
But as a teenager and then as an adult, I never had much interest in Marilyn. I didn’t much like her movies, didn’t like...
LOS ANGELES — Her eyes were searching the grounds of the Beverly Hills Hotel, peeking over the bougainvillea at a row of terra cotta-roofed buildings.
“I always wonder which bungalow was hers,” said Michelle Williams, staring into the distance at a lodging that could have been home to Marilyn Monroe. The icon, whom Williams plays in the...
CHICAGO — Marilyn Monroe’s billowing skirt shows it’s possible to catch a nice breeze in the Windy City.
As dozens of people watched Friday, a 26-foot-tall sculpture of Monroe in her famous pose from the film “The Seven Year Itch” was unveiled on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. In the film, a draft catches Monroe’s dress as she passes over a...
