![]() ![]() ![]() It was in New York, amid the oppressive pseudointellectualism and looming buildings that Marilyn felt comfortable in her own skin, shedding the one that made her too much of a dumb blonde to ever read someone so “erudite” as James Joyce. ![]() Which meant going as far away from Hollywood as one could get while still remaining in the U.S. The one she knew that only an intellectual hammer could break through. Marilyn, in retrospectively demure contrast, turned to the scandal of oozing sensualness at a time when America was more simultaneously fascinated with and repelled by it than ever.Īlas, by the time she wanted to run screaming from the image that had launched her into the spotlight–the one Darryl Zanuck made her wear even when it fit too tightly and squeezed her in all the wrong places–she was already seemingly permanently forced into its stifling mold. Before nude photos were barely eye-raising and people instead had to turn to sex tapes for fame. The twentieth century Aphrodite that flouted moral outrage when she posed nude in the forties before becoming a star. ![]() Of course, any island with a history that began with attracting nude sunbathers when no development occurred from the company that bought the land was going to end up attracting her. ![]()
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