Ana de Armas performs the function of Marilyn Monroe in Netflix's "Blonde."
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‘Blonde’ joins cadre of odes
In theaters in every single place Friday and streaming Sept. 28, Netflix cranks out “Blonde,” one other saga about Marilyn Monroe. Says photographer James Haspiel, 84, writer of books about Marilyn in addition to being her long-ago good friend:
“Movies, TV, ballets, documentaries, performs, about 50 initiatives have been performed about her.
“One final yr advised her August 1962 dying was because of suffocation. The precise detective who really bugged her home heard all and claims she was suffocated with a pillow. Again then a TV government who audited that 42-minute tape says he heard Bobby Kennedy ask Peter Lawford for a pillow. Muffle sounds have been then audible.
“Empty capsule bottles have been in her room. The post-mortem, a public doc, discovered no residue in her abdomen.”
Age 16, Haspiel first noticed Marilyn exterior the St. Regis whereas she filmed her well-known “Seven Yr Itch” skirt scene. A fan, he adopted her and over time grew to become a part of the entourage.
“Though divorced from Arthur Miller, that well-known night she sang to JFK? Her escort was her ex-father-in-law who adored her. Late that night time she and her chauffeur drove him again to Brooklyn. And when she bought dwelling 4 a.m. I used to be there to fulfill her.
“Peter Leonardi, who drove her, was the one did every thing for her. Took her garments to the cleaner and to her therapist 5 days per week. Two days 10:30 a.m., three she went 4:30 within the afternoon.”
Haspiel had a $5 digital camera and that was how he spent his youth.
The brand new Netflix movie stars Ana de Armas as Marilyn.
Flotsam and jetsam gasoline
FORGET coming again, eating places are coming in. Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Greenwich, Conn., newie is Joyful Monkey. Tapas. Sharing dishes. Enjoyable. Jammed. If I wasn’t with Decide Judy Sheindlin I’d nonetheless be ready for a bar stool . . . AND que pasa with fashion? EVERYONE’s in tees, sneakers, denims, shorts, braless boobs bobbling and pants that graze the bottom. NYC’s bought crime and poverty? How about shloomps? . . . “RADIO’s Biggest of All Time,” a biography begun by Rush Limbaugh in 2020, completed by his widow Kathryn and brother David, is out Oct. 25. Threshold Editions, a Simon & Schuster imprint specializing in conservative nonfiction, publishes. Rush aired on 650 radio stations nationwide, 15 million listeners. He knew what he needed to do at age 8.
Secure is protected?
A top-secret-cleared military officer advised me he needed to change his submit’s protected mixture nightly as a result of it’s the place “High Clearance” paperwork have been saved. Solely the provost marshal common and his adjutant knew the mixture. However in some way these papers had in some way been moved about within the protected.
His considering talked about Mar-a-Lago in that possibly the finders possibly themselves may possibly even be those who possibly riffled some papers round — possibly.
HAVING been Trend Week, let’s give these current Emmy awardees a spherical of applause. One almost fell off her 7-inch platform sneakers. She’d have injured herself besides that these eyelashes broke the autumn.
If not solely in New York, children — not less than largely solely in New York.
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