Forever Marilyn

June, 2001

Forever MarilynMarilyn Monroe smiles at me every day. She is there on my living room wall, in one of the zillions of silk-screened portraits of her that Andy Warhol began producing in the early Sixties, shortly after Marilyn's substance-induced death. Rendered in pastel hues of optic intensity, MM looks down heavy-lidded, with the wrinkle of a grin, wised-up and happily alluring.Marilyn no doubt commands a shrine in thousands, perhaps millions, of homes around the world. As we approach what woul...