Her 2000 novel "Blonde" is, of course, about Marilyn Monroe
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Blonde: A Novel: Joyce Carol Oates: 9780060934934: Amazon.com ...  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. Penzler Pick, April 2000: It is surprising and shocking ... That could easily change with her new novel, Blonde, which may be the ... Of course, it could also be both real and hallucinated (remember, even ... Atkinson narrates Oates's fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe in an intense,...
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Blonde - The New York Times  April 2, 2000 ... The historical Marilyn Monroe resembles one of those subatomic particles, invisible to the eye and ... Her novel ''Blonde'' is fat, messy and fierce. ... Of course, a real and patently miserable woman lived inside that marvelous...
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Books about Marilyn Monroe - latimes  Jul 29, 2012 ... Since her death on Aug. 5, 1962, hundreds of books about Marilyn Monroe have been ... Cover of 'Legend: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe' by author Fred ... William J. Weatherly penned this book of his conversations with, and observations of, Monroe on the ... "Blonde" (2000). ... April 30, 2000...
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Marilyn from within - Salon.com  Apr 18, 2000 ... What she has, said one of Marilyn Monroe's acting teachers, this presence ... And indeed, hummingbirds dart through the pages of Blonde like tiny ... Joyce Carol Oates' scary and rhapsodic novel about the life of Marilyn Monroe is ... He never does, of course, though Monroe waits all her life and calls all...
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Joyce Carol Oates Remembers Marilyn Monroe and the Novel She ...  Aug 5, 2015 ... On the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, the author who she ... the research phase for Blonde, published in 2000, Oates read her share of...
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The Happy Hooker: My Own Story by Xaviera Hollander  Reviews ...  Today I saw it on someone's page and had to laugh, the title has always made me ..... In 1972, under the name Xaviera Hollander, she published a candid -read racy ... The Happy Hooker shot straight to the top of the bestseller lists, eventually...
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Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money ...  Joyce Carol Oates, Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money ... Joyce Carol Oates, well known for her novels (Monster, Blonde, We Were the Mulvaneys, etc.) ... Women Whose Lives Are Food... was her fifth collection.
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Book: Sinatra did his drunken, violent and sex-crazed way - NY ...  Mar 31, 2013 ... And one that keeps cropping up is Frank Sinatra, the good, the bad, and ... In his searingly honest new memoir, My Way, Paul Anka tells tales and names names. ... Sinatra, and when Anka got to Vegas in 1960, Ol' Blue Eyes still ruled ... asked the infamous swordsman, who, of all the women he'd known,...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Modernism Lab Essays  The book has the interest of biographical color rather than any usefulness for explaining the ... (In fact, although Loos works against the background of modernism and ... Could her power, like that of Samson, have something to do with her hair? ... Gentlemen Prefer Blondes masquerades as the diary of one Lorelei Lee,...
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Bombshell's Bringing Her Back! But Is Marilyn Monroe Meant for the ...  Aug 23, 2015 ... She had graced the stage before, in the 1983 musical Marilyn: An American ... Bombshell, which tells the story of film and pin-up icon Marilyn Monroe, ... and also featured Scott Bakula as Joe DiMaggio, Will Gerard as Arthur Miller, ... (Among her Broadway credits, she also played Lorelei Lee in the 2012...
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Marilyn Monroe | Marilyn Monroe | Pinterest | Marilyn Monroe  Feb 7, 2013 ... 13 Crazy Brilliant Things Marilyn Monroe (May Or May Not Have) Said .... Marilyn: (on being asked if she wore falsies) "Those who know me better....know better. ... and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early...
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With Booze and a Widow's Depression Behind Her, June Allyson ...  Jun 21, 1982 ... But by her early 20s, June Allyson was big box officea blond ... Yet gossips tagged her as a scheming nympho, and Joan Blondell, who...
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Marilyn Monroe - Biography - IMDb  Nicknames, The Blonde Bombshell ... Afterward, Gladys gave Norma Jeane (Marilyn) the name of Baker, a boyfriend ... Later that same year, she was given a somewhat better role as Evie in ... of being continually late to the set, her illnesses (whether real or imagined) and .... But he picked actress, Grace Kelly, to be his wife.
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Marilyn by Norman Mailer  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists  There are so many books written about Marilyn, so picking one i... ... Marilyn, A Biography ..... However, Mailer makes the reader well aware of the smoke and mirrors effects of ... Shelves: celebrity, marilyn-monroe, biography, pop-culture, book-club ... Mailer wrote a biography so he could describe his sexual fascination with...
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Legally Blonde (musical) - Wikipedia  Legally Blonde is a musical with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach. The story is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of ... Once she acquires her dream dress, Elle goes to dinner with Warner, where he tells her that he needs someone...
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Marilyn Monroe - Biography - IMDb  Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson. ... After The Seven Year Itch (1955), she wanted serious acting to replace the sexpot ... Afterward, Gladys gave Norma Jeane (Marilyn) the name of Baker, a boyfriend she had before ..... In 1946, she signed her first studio contract with 20th Century Fox and dyed her hair.
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Scandals of Classic Hollywood: The Unheralded Marilyn Monroe  Oct 26, 2011 ... by Anne Helen Petersen What's left to say about Marilyn Monroe? ... To scrap her way to the top of the Hollywood heap, Monroe relied heavily upon a very ... I mean, that's basically the plot of All About Eve, give or take a few ... Her film roles remained, for a time, unremarkable, yet her exposure was growing.
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Blondie Gets Married! (June 2000) - Library of Congress Information ...  "I know my father would be as proud as I am," said Ms. O'Neil, "to have his work ... A flighty flapper, at first she dated playboy Dagwood Bumstead, son of the...
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Marilyn @ Minskoff Theatre | Playbill  Marilyn Playbill - November 1983 ... SYNOPSIS: The life of silver-screen sex symbol Marilyn Monroe is examined in this musical, which features running commentary by a ... Scott Bakula. Joe DiMaggio ... 1984, Outstanding Actress in a Musical.
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Marilyn Monroe - Wikipedia  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Famous for playing "dumb blonde" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s, emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. Although she was a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed ..... During the production, she began an affair with her vocal coach, Fred Karger...
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Jeopary Questions page 1098 - THEATRE 2000 - TriviaBistro.com  THEATRE 2000: This '30s sexpot, the diva of the double entendre, is the subject of Claudia Shear's 2000 hit "Dirty Blonde" ... THEATRE 2000: In January 2000 Larry Gatlin began touring the U.S. in Frank Wildhorn's musical about this war.