Jared Leto won the Independent Spirit award for his role in Dallas Buyers Club, and proceeded to thank (among others) his "future ex-wife Lupita." He then added "I'm thinking about you," furthering the confused speculation into their maybe romance. Yeah, well I don't care if you used your Independent Spirit award to…
Charged with promoting Marilyn: Intimate Exposures, a new book of photographs of the star, ad agency Preuss und Preuss decided on a rather sketchy approach. They slapped Marilyn's legs on poles around the city, attached a flapping skirt at the waist and waited for curious passers-by.
Sadcore singer Lana Del Rey recently released “Tropico,” a 27-minute art film/music video, and the first image I saw was of the white artist dressed as a woman bearing many of the stylistic hallmarks associated with Latino gangster culture (right down to the teardrop tattoo). Now, was that a polite way to start my day?
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In never-letting-this-woman-rest-in-peace news, some 1962 X-rays of Marilyn Monroe are up for auction next month (she'd taken a tumble; docs were looking for broken bones). Along with the images are notes from plastic surgeon Michael Gurdin, pointing out that the 1950 cartilage implant in Monroe's chin was dissolving.
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Zooey Deschanel, who I often forget is pretty cool, spoke truthy words about how horrible the Internet can be in this month's Marie Claire. (After all, noted Zooey Deschanel 1.0 Mary Louise Parker quit over it.)
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It seems every six months or so these photos of Marilyn Monroe from World War II make the rounds on the good ol' internet machine. At the time they were captured in 1944 she hadn't yet taken the name Marilyn Monroe, nor had she dyed her curly locks blonde. She was simply known as Norma Jeane Dougherty and worked in a…
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A little dingleberry hanging from the butt of humanity named Justin Bieber peed in a restaurant mop bucket in New York earlier this year because he is an ingrate, and there's a video. As previously evidenced by shenanigans at that Vegas indoor skydiving place, El Beebo and his posse continuously target the employees of …
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Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock interviewed each other for Parade and it was hella cute. "If we had a beer den, with Barcaloungers—but our version of that—it’d be great." "There'd be fabric swatches everywhere. And reclaimed wood."
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Much to the excitement of your sexually frustrated, conspiracy theorist uncle, the FBI has recently found (sure) and reissued (doctored) their previously missing (uh-huh) files on beautiful film actress/dead person Marilyn Monroe. While the other FBI files on Monroe have been heavily redacted, the newest release is…
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That thing called A Chris Brown that crawled out of the bottom of a septic tank in 1989 has deleted his Twitter after a particularly nasty showdown with a comedian named Jenny Johnson, which began like this.
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The Ryan Lochte/Prince Harry Vegas bacchanal news continues, now with additional cavorting! Undoubtedly under the spell of jeah, England's prodigal son Harry played a game of strip pool in Las Vegas that ended with him butt-naked, freaking with the girl next door (see above), and Wales lawyers were undoubtedly like,…
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Today, unfortunately, is the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's untimely death. We should all aspire to play the ukulele with so much joy.
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From an interesting profile on Dr Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, who also did autopsies for Robert F Kennedy and Sharon Tate:
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Pretty sure Marilyn never wore shoes like that. Pretty sure Marilyn never had a racer-back bra, either.
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After a seven year stint on Saturday Night Live, his main contribution being the Interwebizing of the archaic, yet occasionally (rarely) still legit great sketch comedy mainstay, professional silly person and Digital Shorts pioneer Andy Samberg is leaving for greener pastures, spurred by Kristen Wiig's recent…
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Okay, so Marilyn Monroe doesn't really need an open thread shoutout, since there are more than enough books, movies, television shows, statues, and Vanity Fair articles that honor the famously beautiful and doomed star. But it is her birthday — she would have been 86 today — so here's a clip from my favorite Monroe…
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The only thing Vanity Fair loves more than dressing current starlets like olde-tymey silver screen sirens is poor dead Marilyn Monroe. The actress passed away in 1962, But here she is again, on the brand-spanking-new June 2012 cover. This time, the story is about some "lost" nude photos. The photographer, Lawrence…
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There's no denying that Marilyn Monroe had an unusually potent combination of sex, innocence, beauty and charm, but at some point maybe we should think about retiring her ultimate bombshell jersey and letting her rest in relative peace. For one thing, she had an incredibly sad life in many ways—and she met an even…
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Gossip-hoarding TMZ has it on good authority that Saturday Night Live cancelled a sketch last week that featured Lindsay Lohan and Jon Hamm as Marilyn Monroe and JFK, who both visit Andy Samberg's Rick Santorum and tell him — we assume with a hilarious deadpan — that Monroe was put on birth control she obtained through …
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Perhaps Anna Nicole Smith's legacy is that she somehow managed to establish any kind of legacy at all. She plowed her way onto our pop cultural landscape in 1992, took up permanent residency, amazingly remained relevant for the next 15 years, and died of a drug overdose in 2007. As a young single mother working at a…
