Marilyn

Mr. Porter tells us that there was also some rivalry between Marilyn and Elizabeth Taylor. Marilyn had lobbied to get the role of Cleopatra, and there was some talk about her getting it when Elizabeth Taylor was proving to be problemsome in that production.

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When Elizabeth heard the news of the possible change in casting for Cleopatra, she went into a tirade, breaking vases around her Roman villa. “Monroe can play a ditzy blonde. She’d be laughed off the screen as the Queen of the Nile.”

Elizabeth became particularly incensed when columnist Max Lerner wrote, “Elizabeth Taylor is a legend, Marilyn Monroe a myth.”

The next day, an angry Elizabeth called Lerner. “You have some fucking nerve saying that Marilyn is a myth, and that I’m just a lousy legend. I’m much more beautiful than Monroe ever was, and I’m certainly a better actress. Just ask my Oscar. What the hell do I have to do to become a myth, die young, like James Dean?”

-- Darwin Porter, “Marilyn at Rainbow’s End”

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the University of Texas

Pop has gone on another of those senior tours, this time to Austin to see the state capitol.

Very close to the University of Texas.

I wouldn't mind walking down 'the drag' for old time's sake. Of course, I also wouldn't mind being twenty-something and a student, either.

God, to be twenty-two and a college student at UT! True, that was not such a great experience when I lived it, and it presumably would not be such a blast now, not for a little brown man with no money in his pocket. But the general idea seems so wonderfully dreamy. It aches to think of it.

Zombies Are Rising!

Talk about the ultimate hack! Somebody got control of the emergency broadcast system in Montana to report the rising of zombies. Apparently, the stunt was not as effective as Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds", but it did stir up a little reaction.

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"Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. Follow the messages on-screen that will be updated as information becomes available. Do not attempt to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are considered extremely dangerous. This warning applies to all areas receiving this broadcast."

-- Emergency Alert!

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You have been warned!

Metal Music and the War on Terrorism

A colorful tidbit from the war on terrorism and the man who shot Osama bin Laden dead.

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The US Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 has said that Metallica got in touch with the US military and asked them to stop using their music to weaken prisoners in Iraq.

Speaking in Esquire - via Spin - the anonymous shooter said: When we first started the war in Iraq, we were using Metallica music to soften people up before we interrogated them... Metallica got wind of this and they said, 'Hey, please don't use our music because we don't want to promote violence.' I thought, 'Dude, you have an album called 'Kill 'Em All''.

The unnamed shooter said that the military stopped using Metallica following their request, and then started playing music by a Christian metal band called Demon Hunter.

He said: "...Then Demon Hunter got in touch and said, 'We're all about promoting what you do.' They sent us CDs and patches. I wore my Demon Hunter patch on every mission. I wore it when I blasted bin Laden."

-- ONTD

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