Marilyn Revealed

Marilyn RevealedEven now, more than 40 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is the vamp who just keeps on vamping--the enduring gold standard of sex appeal. Of course, Marilyn was never just a sex symbol, any more than she was just a star, just an image or even just a cultural icon. She was, to use a term that is often applied metaphorically to celebrities but has a literal application to Marilyn, a goddess--the goddess of a near-religious cult (in the film Tommy, the Who posits a Church of Mar...