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. » 2/10/14 5:45pm 2/10/14 5:45pm

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? » 12/10/13 7:40pm 12/10/13 7:40pm

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. » 10/10/13 3:10pm 10/10/13 3:10pm

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… » 12/28/12 3:10pm 12/28/12 3:10pm

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. » 11/26/12 9:00am 11/26/12 9:00am

Today, unfortunately, is the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's untimely death. We should all aspire to play the ukulele with so much joy. » 8/05/12 6:30pm 8/05/12 6:30pm

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: » 6/25/12 6:45pm 6/25/12 6:45pm

Pretty sure Marilyn never wore shoes like that. Pretty sure Marilyn never had a racer-back bra, either. » 6/18/12 12:15pm 6/18/12 12:15pm

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… » 6/02/12 11:30am 6/02/12 11:30am

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… » 6/01/12 6:45pm 6/01/12 6:45pm

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… » 5/01/12 4:40pm 5/01/12 4:40pm

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… » 4/12/12 10:00pm 4/12/12 10:00pm

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… » 3/11/12 12:00pm 3/11/12 12:00pm

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… » 2/08/12 1:20pm 2/08/12 1:20pm