Poem - My Sunday Dream

Burning Candles - poem by ssucha

There's this place she was born.

All was sage and bum.

She never worry about her future.

Come what may come.

She ran quick in the streets,

Lightning up her youth.

It gave a lot of heaven,

But all her truth.

Time was burning her candle,

Far too fast too soon.

She never worried about tomorrow,

Or about her air cracked balloon.

Hey little girl I've seen that you're burning your bridges,

Don't you know that boys think of you as just bitches

Taken all dope that might come in handy;

Like just another lost Queen in the pale tale of candy.

Of all those things she's been tasting,

Running like she was blind.

She was cut for a good time

But none she did find.

Always looking for a tomorrow,

Living lost for today.

She just wanted a nice time,

But none ever came her way.

Of all the things she's been doing,

Life was getting kinda rough.

There one day without warning,

She finally had enough.

She lost herself here,

Finally, just like

Another lost Queen,

In the pale tale of Candy.

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Marilyn Monroe, The Poetess

On the first of May I wrote about Marilyn Monroe's new book 'Fragments'. Yes, new, even though it has been now 48 years after her death. It would seem that the most photographed, talked and written about, and the most desired woman and movie star was not as what the world media described and reported. She was a lot more.

The new book scheduled to come out in Oct is not just a compilation of her diaries in which she bared all aspects of her day to day life and intimate thoughts, but included private communications with her psychoanalyst, hand-written letters, receipts, even poems, untouched and unedited since her death. All these materials had been under custody of Anne Strasbery, widow of Lee Strasbery, the man who had influenced her more than anyone else, as her acting professor, mentor, confidant, and most of all, a close friend. Ann was designated as heiress and keeper of his will and would now be edited simultaneously in France, Italy, England and America. In Spain, it's available on bookshelves in Autumn, by Seix Barral. Anne said of her: ' Her writing was sometimes melancholic, but beautiful. In some of the notes one sees an association of ideas, and reflections that are like auto-psychoanalysis of herself. It also showed that she clearly enjoyed writing.  

Elena Ranirez, director of the editorial, explained that the documents have an extraordinary emotional and literary value, especially in her poems and writing, correspondence with the best writers of her time, like Sommerset Maugham, Carson McCullers, Truman Caporte and Norman Mailer, Karen Bilxen, Pier Paolo Pasoline amongst others. It has 250 pages full of the most intimate thoughts of the actress, in reproduction facsimile that lets readers see her own hand-writing, annotations of her study, and correction - from when she was an adolescent till 1062.  It's the 1st ever book in which the real Marilyn, more correctly, Norma Jean, told her own life story, not through a 3rd party. Theeditor Courtney Hodell of Ferrer, Straus and Giroux, summed up that 'She was obviously an avid reader and with great talent to write. There are very beautiful poetry pieces and paragraphs that calls for attention.'

She died at 36, on the 5th of August, 1962, in her home in Los Angeles. 

This was taken at Long Island in 1955. The quality of the picture is poor, but it's one I have never seen before.

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Marilyn Monroe, The Writer

In October a new publication of the side of Marilyn Monroe few people knew, not even some very close to her, would be in bookshops everywhere, in the edition simultaneously in French, English and Spanish. It's a compilation of poems, annotations of diaries and other written material of Norma Jean Mortenson, much better known worldwide by her artistic name Marilyn Monroe. A name of 'tinkling sound' according to the sharp observation of Carmen Martin Gaite, author of an article in which she compared the actress with Madame Bovary of Flaubert. Both linked together with suicide in their 30's, also, both lives are destined by circumstances and criterions imposed.

The variety of written notes are grouped under the title of 'Fragments' that had led the actress to the theatre director, Lee Strasbery of 'Actors' Studio' and her tutor, in the mid fifties. She wanted to learn more about acting not just being decoration in films.

The original list of notes include writers of 1943 - 1962, before being passed onto the hands of Strasbery's widow, and from her, recently, to a French editor who considered them worthwhile of publication. It's now a question of wait and see, as said by the editors, whether the work actually and factually reveal an unsuspecting streak of the melancholic Marilyn, of whom they labelled as 'great reader' and 'with talent and quality of a writer'. Some accolade.

There's a photo of her in a swimming suit, reading the 'Ulyses of Joyce', in the year before her wedding with the writer Arthur Miller, in 1956. The author of famous works like 'Death of a merchant', said that her most surprising characteristics was her 'absolute, irremediable and sometimes even irritable incapacity to lie.' (that describes me too). When she knew she was pregnant by Tony Curtis, during the filming of 'Some like it hot', she put the 2 men together in one room to inform them of that particular situation.

Perhaps the grouped written record would help those interested parties to understand; if that was not the reason of her 'suicide', nor the chain of events before, or the decadence since. One hypothesis is that during that period, the end of the 50's, she was already not quite herself, Norma Jean, but what the rest of the world had made her. It's too late already.

Marilyn wrote in her autobiography: 'it was the street poetess that had wanted to recite her verses to a multitude who just wanted to tear off her clothes.'

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Marilyn, Inside & Out

Julien Auction House will be putting on a public auction, on the 26th and 27th of June in the Casino Planet Hollywood of Las Vegas, some very personal items of Marilyn Monroe, amongst items like photos, 2 blouses, a handbag, a fur coat, umbrella, bank statements, signed cheques and some other personal belongs, is an X-ray of her chest! Taken in 1954 when she was married to baseball star Joe di Maggio (the plate was under the name of Marilyn di Maggio).

Just when you thought every last bit of Marilyn Monroe had been put up for auction, including the crypt above hers at a local cemetery. Julien of Julien's Auctions says the psychiatric couch will be offered too during the Hollywood Legends auction, and is confident that people will want this “ultimate look into the legend.” To prove perhaps that she was beautiful and sexy inside and out?

I get that Marilyn Monroe was like the biggest sex symbol of all time. But how obsessed with her would you have to be to want to buy her chest x-ray? Seems creepy to me, but Yeah, that doesn’t sound stalkerish at all. It's business. In fact, the auction house thinks this chest x-ray, taken while she was undergoing treatment for Endometriosis, will bring in at least 141,000 Euros.

I do think this photo of Marilyn is one of her best, looking happy and so natural. Which part of the house is the best spot though to display this X-Ray Art?

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Marilyn's 'New' Flick

Almost half a century after her untimely and tragic death, Marilyn Munroe appears once again in a short amateur film, of 2 and a half minute duration, in 8mm format, showing scenes depicted from the shooting of what had become a timeless classic of her short career, ' Some Like It Hot '.
 
It was made by a marine friend of the star, whose daughter has just put it up for auction in Australia. The starting reserved price was fixed at $20,000.
 
The film shows a sequence in that famous Comedy, made in 1959 in Florida. Tony Curtis and Billy Wilder also featured in the scene.
The film itself, to me anyway, must be the very best of her work as an actress, not just pretty and sexy. I know many people wouldn't agree with me, but I also consider her other comedy 'The Prince and The Showgirl', in which she also showed her talent of being a very good actress. In fact she stole all the scenes from Laurance Olivier.

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