Showing posts with label Marilyn Monroe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marilyn Monroe. Show all posts

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Marilyn Monroe: Abnormally Large Crowd To Her Grave Site !

Celebrity grave sites are often marked with flowers and photos to mark a birthday or death anniversary but the memorial park that is home to Marilyn Monroe claims they were completely overrun yesterday by fans of Marilyn.







A spokesman for the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery stated there was an "abnormally large" crowd on Friday - her 86th birthday - with people leaving items such as cards, photos, candles, statues, and flowers.

The spokesman revealed they usually try and leave the items on the grave site for as long as possible (until they start to overrun neighboring spaces) but the clean-up yesterday for Marilyn went down faster than usual.

It has to be noted that the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery is also the final resting place of Janis Joplin, Peter Falk, Rodney Dangerfield, Natalie Wood, Farrah Fawcett and many more.

It has to be mentioned that August 5 marks the 50th anniversary of her death.

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Friday, May 25, 2012

Marilyn Monroe Life Quotes

1. I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.



2. I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

3. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

4. A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

5. I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

6. If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

7. The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.




8. This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. 

9. If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. 






10. It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

11. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them. 

12. Ever notice how "What the hell" is always the right answer?

13. Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

14. We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

15. I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. 

16. She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know  


17. Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

18. I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it. 

19. Who said nights were for sleep?



20. The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream. 




21. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. 


22. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

23. It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.


24. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

25. We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

26. If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.

27. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

28. I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. 





29. Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. 

30. Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

31. Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

32. I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

33. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

34. I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. 


35. You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.


36. I restore myself when I'm alone.


37. It's all make believe, isn't it?

38. Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. 

39. Diamonds are a girls best friend.

40. The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

41. Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together

42. We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

43. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. 

44. Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. 



45. I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

46. What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course

47. I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.  





48. If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

49. I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest. 

50. Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.


51. I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

52. All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

53. I love to do the things the censors won't pass. 

54. I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

55. Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person .

56. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. 

57. A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.


58. Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

59. I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.

60. I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. 

61. When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them like nothing. Learn to be a good friend because one day you're gonna look up and say I lost a good friend. Learn how to be respectful to your friends, don't just start arguments with them and don't tell them the reason, always remember your friends will be there quicker than your family. Learn to remember you got great friends, don't forget that and they will always care for you no matter what. Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

62. I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing. 

63. I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.




64. Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

65. A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night

66. Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me. 



67. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

68. I read poetry to save time.

69. I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic. 

70. Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside". 

71. I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.  





72. The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

73. Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone.
...they're too stubborn to say, "Sorry, I was wrong"
they hurt the ones closest to their hearts,and we let the most foolish things tear us apart 

74. Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

75. Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.

 

76. Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

77. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

78. There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos. 


79. It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

80. Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady

81. To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly. 

82. That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed. 





83. I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes. 

84. I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus. 



85. When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

86. You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

87. For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

88. Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them. 










89. But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

90. Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere. 




91. Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence. 

92. People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one. 





93. I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could
love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away. 

94. An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

95. Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

96. Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

97. First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

98. I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.




99. I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

100. I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful

101. I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

102. If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

103. It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.






104.My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

105. There was my name up in lights. I said, "God, somebody's made a mistake." But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, "Remember, you're not a star." Yet there it was up in lights.



106. Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting than being one. 

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Marilyn Monroe Mental Illness

In 1961, Marianne Kris, the psychoanalyst treating Marilyn Monroe, was convinced that her famous patient was on the verge of suicide. So she did what most psychiatrists at the time would have done: She committed Monroe to a mental institution.






 Knowing that Marilyn would never go to a psychiatric hospital on her own— Monroe was terrified of sanitariums because her mother lived in one for most of her life and her grandmother had died in one— Kris told Monroe that she was going to a private hospital for some "rest and relaxation.

" It was under these false pretenses that Monroe arrived at New York's Payne Whitney hospital on February 5th, where she was quickly escorted by orderlies through several steel doors, then forcibly thrown into a padded room with barred windows. "I'm locked up with these poor nutty people," Monroe wrote to her acting teachers Paula and Lee Strasberg. "I'm sure to end up a nut too if I stay in this nightmare. Please help me."


This episode, well-known to Marilyn followers, is recounted again in the new best-selling biography, "The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe". The author, J. Randy Taraborrelli, writes that a Payne Whitney intern who visited Monroe after she tried to break down the bathroom door in her room told her, "You are a very, very sick girl. And you've been sick for a long time."

 Taraborrelli's 541-page biography is based on more than a decade of research and includes quotes from FBI files released in 2006 through the Freedom of Information Act, unpublished accounts from reporters' notebooks from the 1950s and letters to, from and about Monroe that have never before been published. Of course he promises discoveries that are "explosive”" and "revelatory," but there aren’t really any, not a to a Marilyn obsessive like myself. Instead, there is the deepening of the much more ordinary tragedy that continues to fascinate, about a woman Taraborrelli calls "a brave soldier in a devastating battle with her own mind."


Taraborrelli delves into the early relationships that shaped Norma Jeane Mortenson, including her relationship with her mother, Gladys Baker, a paranoid schizophrenic. He also uncovers evidence that suggests that, beginning in her late teens, Monroe heard voices and believed she was being followed. This would mean that her psychosis likely predated her meteoric rise to fame and her descent into drug addiction. In, fact that’s not all that surprising given her family history.

The book does not delve into what is to me the most interesting about Monroe's mental illness: the unorthodox relationship Marilyn shared with Ralph Greenson, the psychiatrist who was treating her at the time of her death. Greenson was a brilliant and flamboyant analyst who treated several famous actors (Vivien Leigh, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis) and wrote the seminal text "The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis".

 Greenson believed his patient, haunted by her abandonment as a child, would benefit from spending time with a stable, happy family. So he chose the closest family at hand, his own. After daily—sometimes twice daily— sessions in his private home office in Santa Monica, Marilyn would often join the Greenson family for meals or just to hang out; she attended parties there (once showing up for Greenson's daughter's birthday celebration and teaching the guests how to do the twist) and, Taraborrelli claims, she even spent the night on occasion.

Taraborrelli, who has penned biographies of Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, among others, is more measured about Greenson than many Monroe chroniclers, some of whom have claimed he was directly responsible for her passing. "[I]n the 1950s and 1960s all sorts of vanguard treatments for mental illness were being tested," he writes. Greenson's methods were roundly criticized by his colleagues, and he was despised by most of Monroe's friends, many of whom beleived he was a Svengali who was manipulating the vulnerable and insecure actress. "You are seeing too much of that guy," Marilyn's close friend Pat Kennedy Lawford told her, according to Taraborelli. "He's got you under a spell or something."

Greenson was indeed territorial with his patient. He installed a housekeeper, Eunice Murray, at Monroe's Brentwood home and instructed her to keep watch over the actress and report any dangerous or suspicious behavior to Greenson. The psychiatrist even intervened in Monroe's business negotiations!




 For example,when she was on the verge of being fired by 20th Century Fox for missing so many days of work on the (never completed) film "Something's Got to Give", Greenson personally guaranteed the director that Marilyn would arrive to set promptly and ready to act. (He couldn't keep this promise, though; Monroe was so depressed and drugged out at this time that she was eventually fired.)


Perhaps the most fascinating wrinkle in the Greenson-Monroe story was unveiled in August 2005, when the "Los Angeles Times" published a front-page story about the discovery of "secret tapes" that Monroe allegedly made for Greenson shortly before her death. The transcripts of these tapes were given to the Times by former L.A. prosecutor John W. Miner, who investigated Monroe's death. Miner, now in his 90s, stated that Greenson allowed him to listen to the tapes and take notes on the condition that he never reveal their contents. Miner kept his promise for 30 years but was moved to go public in an attempt to clear Greenson's name after a Monroe biographer accused him of ordering a sleeping medication that proved fatal in combination with the Nembutal that was already in her system.

The transcripts are peppered with many headline-making bits, including Marilyn's confession that she had a lesbian affair with Joan Crawford, an admission that sex with ex-husband Arthur Miller was only "so-so," and her intention to break things off with her paramour, then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy. But beyond these juicy details, what the tapes prove most profoundly is that Marilyn's relationship with her analyst was bizarre, complicated, and, it would seem, filled with love. "Ever since you let me into your home … I've thought about how it would be if I were your daughter instead of your patient …. I know you couldn't do it while I'm your patient, but after you cure me, maybe you could adopt me," said the woman who had spent her entire life in a conscious and unconscious quest to replace the man who had abandoned her before she was born.
But it gets even weirder.

 If Marilyn saw Greenson as a father figure, this was a daddy who taught her how to have "the greatest pleasure there is," an orgasm. "You said … that when I did exactly what you told me to do I would have an orgasm and that after I did it to myself and felt what it was, I would have orgasms with lovers." Clearly, theirs was a case of transference and countertransference run amok. (For his part, Taraborrelli reviewed Miner's handwritten transcripts and believes Miner to be a "very nice, congenial man" who would have "no reason to lie," but finds Miner's "explanation that he reconstructed his copious notes from memory is troubling.")

Today, Greenson would surely have his license pulled, and his mug would be splashed on the cover of the New York Post and on TMZ. Still, the task before Greenson was Herculean. He was essentially charged with treating someone who was untreatable, a borderline paranoid schizophrenic (his diagnosis), someone who was suicidal and could procure the prescription drugs she was addicted to from any number of sources—but who couldn't be institutionalized. In notes about Monroe's case that Taraborrelli references, Greenson writes that he felt he had to keep her from being "committed once again, for I know she won't survive it a second time."

The "truth" of Marilyn Mornroe's relationship with her psychiatrist Ralph Greenson will always remain open to interpretation; Greenson died in 1979 and while his papers are housed in a special collection at UCLA, most of the documents pertaining to his treatment of Monroe have been sealed until 2039. Undoubtedly, he crossed all kinds of lines in his attempts to help Monroe, and may have even damaged her further.

Most of the times we tend to look for an external villain to explain Marilyn Monroe's tragic life and death. We blame the Hollywood fame machine, the wrong husbands, the Kennedys, and Ralph Greenson, too. But there is no villain in this sad tale. At the heart of the story, there is something much simpler: A very, very sick girl. What do you think?

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Monday, January 30, 2012

How Much Money Has Rihanna Given For A Marilyn Monroe Artwork ??

 Rihanna has discovered a worthy cause for £100,000 of her finest sterling - after she bought a portrait of Marilyn Monroe made out of 65,000 crystals.



The Umbrella singer reportedly purchased the five sq ft picture of the all time classic blonde bombshell from a bespoke artwork company called "Gemstone Creative".

The eccentric star is believed to 'identify' with Marilyn Monroe  because she feels the same pressures of fame.

The portrait, which constantly changes colour and 'sends rainbows of light round the room', took four months to complete at Claire's Yorkshire studio.

Claire, who was commissioned to produce the piece by "Gemstone Creative", made the 13 stone piece with 100 per cent Swarovski crystals and told The Sun: 'I tried to show the glitter of the public life and then the sadness in Marilyn's eyes.


The ironic thing is that Rihanna made a "Thug Life" tatoo last week & she strongly beleives that she is living the "thug life"...

Come on! She is far from being a thug, judging by the Beverly Hills Mansion she lives in! Actually she lives the high life with all the glamour she is surrounded with & the lavish way she spends her money!


 It has to be marked that the artist who made the Marilyn Monroe portrait, Claire Milner, stated "Because of who Rihanna is, everything had to be done through her interior decorators, but they told me afterwards she loved it."

Thug life eh?
With a team of interrior decorators?

Give it a second thought my dear Rihanna...

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