Thank you @crollyson for this wonderful review of my new Marilyn biography in @NewYorkSun@GrandCentralPub
A Marilyn Monroe Biography Committed to Facts, Not Myths https://t.co/JzqSce4YNI
6/3/53: At the “exquisite Barbizon” in room 1511 looking down on gardens, alleys, the 3rd Avenue elevated train, UN, a “snatch of the east River.” At night a “network of lights, and the sound of car horns” serenaded her with the “sweetest music. I love it.”https://t.co/H6yvBMHSfV
'Je lègue ce dernier poème visuel à tous les jeunes gens qui m’ont fait confiance, malgré l’incompréhension totale dont mes contemporains m’entourent.'
[Le Testament d'Orphée, Jean #Cocteau, 1960]
#cinema@CocteauCinema#litterature
My Aunt Clara subscribed to many movie magazines I would read in her basement when I was about 11 or 12. This experience explains my initial interest in movie stars, although my cutoff date would be about 1963, right after Marilyn Monroe died. That’s right, I live in the past.
I’m really tired of seeing quotations from William Faulkner on social media that do not include a source. Often I don’t recognize the quotations and I doubt that he actually said what is attributed to him.