Marilyn

Apparently Marilyn was among the liberally inclined when it came to the civil rights movement going into the 1960s. She could have been utterly indifferent, or else outrightly snobby. It makes it that much easier to like her, if being a sexy doll is not enough for you.

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Marilyn was heavily influenced by Bobby’s stand on civil rights, as revealed in her final interview for Life magazine with Richard Meryman in July.

“What I really want to say is that what the world really needs is a feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.” Her heartfelt plea for tolerance and equality would more or less match that of Bobby when he ran for President in 1968.

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

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Amanda Seyfried Likes to Deepthroat Creeps

The beautiful Amanda Seyfried admits to falling for creeps sometimes and liking it.

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The stunning Hollywood actress plays adult movie star Linda Lovelace in the new film Lovelace. Linda famously starred in the shocking 1972 movie Deep Throat and later claimed she had suffered abuse at the hands of her husband Chuck Traynor.

Amanda, who previously dated her Mamma Mia! co-star Dominic Cooper, understands why some women are drawn to the wrong guys.

“Unfortunately there’s something attractive about someone who is broken, for me, and for a lot of women that I’ve spoken to. My best friend and I are attracted to creeps - sometimes,” she said in an interview with British newspaper The Sun. “They’re interesting and mysterious and they provide us with this rush and this need to chase or fix - just these needs they fill in yourself.

-- ONTD

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Daimon says, "It goes to show that there is hope even for you, Monk old boy."

Monk says, "I'd like to give her something to fix."

Pi says, "Sheesh, she is just trying to sell the movie. Calm down!"

Monk says, "Please, don't ruin the dream!"

Sylvia

Sylvia goes out with a frat boy and gets a brush with date-rape. The little affair was unpromising from the beginning. When he is driving his convertible, he asks:

”Do you like football?” (This is like high school: find out her interest.)

You don’t, but you can’t squelch him quite so soon. You parry: “Do you?” (The old double-switch.)

Then it’s off to the frat house. After a little group socializing, the boy asks her to go on a little walk with him, so they can get to know each other a little better. And they sit and talk and one thing leads to another.

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Hilary Mantel on Royalty

Acclaimed author Hilary Mantel caused quite the stir after she defined Middleton as "a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung" whose "only point and purpose being to give birth." She also described the princess as "plastic" and "designed to breed."

-- Cavan Sieczkowski at Huffington Post

Wow, since I just ordered Ms. Mantel's "Wolf Hall" last night, I found this news item to be especially jolting. It has been a while since I have seen a hard strike at the royal family. This is all the funnier because I was prompted to get "Wolf Hall" after reading Christopher Hitchens's high praise in "Arguably", and Hitchens, if he were still around, might be jumping at this opportunity to renew his own attacks against the addled institution of British royalty. Regardless, British royalty is probably like the Catholic Church in that neither is likely to dry up and blow away, at least not in our lifetime.

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"Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character. She appears precision-made, machine-made, so different from Diana whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture. Diana was capable of transforming herself from galumphing schoolgirl to ice queen, from wraith to Amazon. Kate seems capable of going from perfect bride to perfect mother, with no messy deviation."

-- Hilary Mantel, "Royal Bodies" lecture

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Daily Fun

Montmartre, Paris, 1948. Photo: Édouard Boubat

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