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?
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.
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
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
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."
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…
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.
The Ryan Lochte/Prince Harry Vegas bacchanal news continues, now with additional cavorting! Undoubtedly under the spell of jeah
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:
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Mere days after releasing the video for "Stupid Hoe," Nicki Minaj has leaked a new track, "Marilyn Monroe." Because we just can't go more than a few months without a new Marilyn Monroe project. The woman has been dead since 1962, but her memory is alive and well and being coopted constantly.
The following photographs feature a teenage (and brunette!) Norma Jean Dougherty in her very first modeling session. Shot by Joseph Jasgur in 1946, the rare photos capture the future Marilyn Monroe looking like a classic all-American girl, pre-bombshell.
In the latest issue of the Italian magazine Amica, Megan Fox confirms that she's having Marilyn Monroe's face removed from her forearm. She explains:
A Spanish man claims to have in his possession a 6 1/2 minute tape of the woman who would become known as Marilyn Monroe having some sex. Collector Mikel Barsa told Argentine media that the tape is real, and that he wants to sell it for at least half a million dollars. Ka-ching/barf.
Marilyn Monroe's iconic "subway dress" from The Seven Year Itch has sold at auction for a whopping $5.6 million. The gigantic price tag exceeded the auction house's expectation that the dress would sell for about $2 million.
Are you a confusingly wealthy pervert? A reclusive cinema obsessed heiress? A recurring feature on MTV Cribs? Do you have $2 million laying around? If so, you may be interested in purchasing Marilyn Monroe's iconic "subway dress," most famous for being blown up while being worn over a subway grate in The Seven Year Itch. …
The revelation of an elaborate stuffing recipe in the icon's own hand has led to speculation that perhaps Marilyn was, in fact, a domestic goddess.
Next month at Bonhams & Butterfields auction house in Los Angeles, some random personal items — and some never-before-seen photographs — of Marilyn Monroe will be available for purchase.
A new book of Marilyn Monroe's "notes to herself, letters, even poems" also includes a photo of her bookshelf. Apparently she liked Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Beckett — but no female writers.
