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December 25, 2012
Top 10 LA Weekly Web Stories Of 2012
The economy sucked and some news just made you want to bury your head under a pillow. But if you're in the journalism game, 2012 was the gift that kept on giving, from the worst bands (of all time) to Tom Cruise's relationship woes to awkward dance moves. Yes, awkward dance moves. LA Weekly had so ... More >>
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November 27, 2012
Hollywood Museum Spotlights Women on TV, Including...a Naked Marilyn Monroe?
See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos Two extremely significant moonwalks took place on television. One occurred when Neil Armstrong took his first extraterrestrial steps. The other occurred when Michael Jackson walked backwar ... More >>
Blogs
August 6, 2012
Marilyn Monroe: 50th Anniversary of Her Death Commemorated at Her Westwood Cemetery
See also: *Marilyn Monroe's Sexual Abuse, Secret Life Revealed in New Bio *Marilyn Monroe's Pharmacist, Samuel Bazrod, Was My Father *New Marilyn Monroe Bio: Her Death Was an Accident, JFK Was a One-Night Stand Fifty years to the day after Marilyn Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her Brentw ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2012
Marilyn Monroe's Pharmacist, Samuel Bazrod, Was My Father: A Daughter's Story
By Sondra Farrell Bazrod See also:*Marilyn Monroe Photographer Lawrence Schiller: Our Interview *Marilyn Monroe's Never-Before-Seen Poolside Nude Photos Soon after news of Marilyn Monroe's death spread around the world my father received the call from the Coroner's office in Los Angeles. "How many ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2012
New Marilyn Monroe Biography Says Her Death Was an Accident and JFK Was Just a One-Night Stand
See also: *Marilyn Monroe Photographer Lawrence Schiller: Our Interview *Marilyn Monroe's Never-Before-Seen Poolside Nude Photos As the media undoubtedly will note this week, Aug. 5 marks the 50th anniversary of the sad, premature death of Norma Jeane Baker, aka Marilyn Monroe, the multitalented ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2012
Marilyn Monroe's Childhood Sexual Abuse, Secret Life Revealed in New Biography
Marilyn Monroe lived a strange, secret life that involved wearing disguises. She also indeed suffered sexual abuse as a child. Those facts and more were confirmed in a thorough new biography by USC history professor Lois Banner, who found that the original blonde bombshell was much more intellectua ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Explosives in the Book of Genesis
This week, an opera singer gone brilliantly rogue performs downtown, a celebrated curator who's something of a crusader visits the Miracle Mile and more group shows round out the list. 5. The curator who keeps going and going Hans Ulrich Obrist makes "being a curator like a spiritual vocation," say ... More >>
Blogs
June 19, 2012
Marilyn Monroe Nude Photographer Lawrence Schiller: Our Interview
See also: Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos at Duncan Miller Gallery. You're Welcome. One of the most memorable moments of accomplished photojournalist, New York Times bestselling author and director Lawrence Schiller's life was spent parked outside of Schwab's Pharmacy on ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2012
A $100 Cocktail: The Beverly Hills Hotel Turns 100 Years Old
One of L.A.'s most recognizable grand dames turns 100 on Saturday May 12 and marks the occasion with a $100 commemorative cocktail and movie star themed cocktail list. 10 special "These Walls are Talking" cocktails, available at the hotel's off-lobby Bar Nineteen12 and the Polo Lounge, salute the Be ... More >>
Calendar
May 10, 2012
Motion by the Ocean
One of L.A.'s most recognizable grand dames turns 100 on Saturday May 12 and marks the occasion with a $100 commemorative cocktail and movie star themed cocktail list. 10 special "These Walls are Talking" cocktails, available at the hotel's off-lobby Bar Nineteen12 and the Polo Lounge, salute the Be ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2012
Lindsay Lohan's Venice Stalker Says He Was Only Trying to Tell Her to 'Drop the Marilyn Monroe Image'
Leave it to veteran Westside paparazzo Tony Vera (you know, the guy who Mike Tyson punched in the head at LAX, then lived to tell the tale) to pick Lindsay Lohan's stalker out of the Venice Boardwalk crowd. Getting him to talk was another story.
Blogs
December 12, 2011
Lindsay Lohan Nude Playboy Photos Leak One Week Early: Oops.
Editor's note: The photos of Lindsay Lohan previously published in this post have been removed at the request of Playboy Enterprises International, Inc. ("Playboy"), which did not grant permission for use of its materials. Updated at the bottom: Hef decides to release the issue early after making ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2011
Lindsay Lohan Leaked Playboy Cover: As Nude and 'Classy' as Promised
TheInsider.comLarger-than-life version, below.Sorry for caring, when there's real Los Angeles news on the line -- but the second we saw, via New York Post Tweet, that Lindsay Lohan's much-hyped Playboy cover had leaked, we couldn't help fawning over it a little. "It's a classic tribute, insp ... More >>
Film+TV
November 24, 2011
My Week With Marilyn Review
My Week With Marilyn takes the sex out of sex symbol.
Blogs
October 21, 2011
Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos at Duncan Miller Gallery. You're Welcome.
Copyright Lawrence Schiller Life magazine called it "the skinny dip you'll never see." In what would have been Marilyn Monroe's last film role, the buxom, platinum-haired icon frolicked in and around a swimming pool for the unfinished Something's Got to Give in 1962, a remake of the screwbal ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011
'Beauty Culture' Exhibit Is Full of Hot Women. That's the Problem
© Walter IoossDoes this challenge our traditional notions of beauty? Be quiet, you're distracting me. The Annenberg Space for Photography has been pulling out all the stops to promote its latest exhibit, "Beauty Culture" -- a collection of images that aims to explore "how feminine beauty is ... More >>
Film+TV
April 21, 2011
The Bang Bang Club
© Walter IoossDoes this challenge our traditional notions of beauty? Be quiet, you're distracting me. The Annenberg Space for Photography has been pulling out all the stops to promote its latest exhibit, "Beauty Culture" -- a collection of images that aims to explore "how feminine beauty is ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2011
Marilyn Monroe: Killed in Brentwood by those "big time" jerks, the Kennedys, over UFOs
Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe Author:Donald R. Burleson, PhD Date: 2003 Publisher: Black Mesa Pres ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2010
How To Cook Like a Movie Star: Marilyn Monroe's Stuffing Recipe
Flickr/srettThanksgiving As the former director of the Michelin Guide infamously noted, people in L.A. care more about movie stars than Michelin stars. Sure we do. (That's presumably why Michelin no longer publishes a guide to Los Angeles. And perhaps one of the reasons why Jean-Luc Naret i ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2010
(Photos) Rarely Seen Marilyn Monroe Photographs, Documents To Be Auctioned In Hollywood
This shot's not part of the auction; we just like it (and so, apparently, does Madonna).L.A.'s most-iconic actress is about to get the spotlight again, 48 years after her death. Auction house Bonhams & Butterfields is teasing the world with rarely seen photos of the star that will go up for s ... More >>
Film+TV
October 28, 2010
Marilyn in Fragments
Reappraising a sex symbol, with help from her own writings
Blogs
October 6, 2010
Pikachu Girls: Dressing Up Like Pokemon, The Cute, The Bad, The Slutty
Why do cute girls like to dress up as Pikachu? It's a question for the ages. Pikachu is Nintendo's small, chubby, ground-dwelling rodent whose main powers are electricity and getting cute girls to wear short yellow skirts. You'll see them at every anime or comic book convention, rain or shine. I'd p ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2010
Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood House For Sale: $3.6 Million
A Brentwood house where Marilyn Monroe died in 1962 has been put up for sale for nearly $3.6 million, according to Curbed LA. Curbed points to the Marilyn Monroe Memories website, which states she bought the cul-de-sac home in 1962 for $90,000. It was her first. The 2,624 square foot house h ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2010
Marilyn Monroe Photographer Bill Carroll Talks About Working with a Young Norma Jeane
Marilyn Monroe's legacy as the personification of the Hollywood lifestyle and glamour (along with its tragedies) is just one reason why the Andrew Weiss Gallery in Beverly Hills is running its current exhibit "Becoming Marilyn." The show features a collection of photos that span her 17-year career f ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
'Upskirt' Crime On The, Er, Rise?
Is it us, or has the Japanese fetish for "upskirt" photos -- on-the-street pictures angled to capture less-exposed areas of a woman -- started to take a life of its own here in the United States? Like everything of pop cultural import -- blues, rock, jazz and techno included -- we invented it ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2009
Tales From the Crypt: Monroe-Adjacent Spot On The Block
That crypt directly above Marylin Monroe's resting place in Westwood is back on the auction block. In August the spot went for $4.6 million, but the winning bidder pulled out, apparently after he was unable to put up the money.Auction CauseOn Monday it goes back up for auction for 10 days on eBay ... More >>
Blogs
August 24, 2009
Tomb With a View: Bids for Crypt Above Marilyn Monroe's Reach $4 Million
The Ebay bidding on the cemetery crypt space located directly above Marilyn Monroe's is now up to $4 million. For a final resting place, the spot has had a bit of turnover, according to an L.A. Times piece. Originally owned by baseball slugger Joe DiMaggio, it was sold by the Yankee Clipper to Los A ... More >>
Film+TV
August 6, 2009
Movie Reviews: A Woman in Berlin, A Perfect Getaway, Paper Heart
Also, Fragments, 12 in a Box and more
Columns
July 9, 2009
HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY AUCTIONS
Let the bidding begin
Blogs
June 26, 2009
Today in Photographs: June 26, 1953
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes stars Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell leave an impression in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.LA Times/UCLA
Blogs
April 2, 2009
This Tallowed Ground: Wax Museum to Sell 200 Celebrities
If you can't take the heat -- well, let's just say that the Hollywood Wax Museum has announced plans to auction off James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and nearly 200 other wax figures on May 1. The housecleaning sale is the first in the museum's 44-year history and offers something for every genre of c ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2009
Today in Photographs: March 8, 1950
Marilyn Monroe strikes a pose with Chicago White Sox slugger Hank Majeskie.L.A. Herald-Examiner/LAPL CollectionClick image to enlarge
Film+TV
February 26, 2009
Master of the Mix: A Bruce Conner assemblage
Tribute to the artist and filmmaker at UCLA; REDCAT
Calendar
November 20, 2008
Tony, Tony, Tony
Tribute to the artist and filmmaker at UCLA; REDCAT
News
March 8, 2007
Talk of the Town
Tribute to the artist and filmmaker at UCLA; REDCAT
News
January 11, 2007
Immortal Mayhem
It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy
Columns
August 3, 2006
Summertime, and the Livin' Is Easy
It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy
LA Life
March 16, 2006
Absolutely Nothing About St. Patrick's Day
It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy
Columns
September 1, 2005
Heart of Dixie
It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy
Eat+Drink
August 25, 2005
Coffee Shop, Interrupted
It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy
Film+TV
August 4, 2005
Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema Of The 1920s and �30s
It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy
News
April 28, 2005
Rossmore Glamour
It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy
Art+Books
November 6, 2003
Behind the Scenes
Phil Stern shows what a �dumb-fucking illiterate schmuck� can do with a camera
Columns
October 9, 2003
Occupational Hazards
The peace movement returns
Art+Books
December 26, 2002
The Coffee Table, Revisited
The peace movement returns
Stage
April 4, 2002
Circle Jerks
Erotic roundelays by David Hare and Arthur Miller
Art+Books
December 27, 2001
The Coffee Table
Erotic roundelays by David Hare and Arthur Miller
Columns
June 21, 2001
Sympathy for the Pig
Erotic roundelays by David Hare and Arthur Miller
News
October 1, 1998
Consume Part II:
[Mostly] Not Food
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