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Cooking for Two Book
This extraordinarily thoughtful book by Barbara Leaming, a literary star among film-star biographers, offers the last thing you'd expect in a book on Marilyn Monroe: new information from verifiable sources. Certainly, much of the tragedy is familiar: an abused, confused girl from an orphanage with a mother in a madhouse rises from sexual party favour for homely showbiz men to the movie superstar who pushes them around, until she crashes, a victim of self-loathing and drug addiction. The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semi- autobiographical work, and she makes sense … read more...
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