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12 May 2013

Ballet bends-and-stretches for Marilyn

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She loved to dance but perhaps started too late for ballet? Marilyn Monroe. [...]

1 April 2013

Review: Quirky master-photographer of the 1960s Bert Stern captured in doc

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Reviews the documentary “Bert Stern: Original Mad Man” soon to open in Los Angeles. [...]

12 December 2012

Jack Cole, Hollywood director

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The choreographer Jack Cole not only created the delicious dance numbers in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1954); he directed them. [...]

12 August 2012

An actress & her dance coach

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Marilyn Monroe relied on Jack Cole for dance coaching like no other. [...]

11 May 2012

Carol Channing originated the role of Lorelei in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”

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A little compare and contrast exercise on “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” [...]

29 February 2012

Remembering Marilyn

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Concern two recent screenings of film about Marilyn Monroe, presented in the year marking the 50th anniversary of her tragic death. [...]

1 January 2012

Twenty-twelve!

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The world is one-one-one-two today. Happy birthday world. [...]

30 October 2011

Stitching Marilyn Monroe together . . .

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Marilyn Monroe, stitched by two less than glamorous costume gals on “Let’s Make Love” (1960). [...]

26 September 2011

Cirque du Soleil’s swell Hollywood opening night party

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It was a wild ride, circling in a Ferris wheel above Hollyweird Boulevard at the Cirque du Soleil “Iris” opening party. [...]

22 July 2011

Debbie Reynolds, costume connoisseur

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Poor Debbie Reynolds. She had to give up her dream of creating a museum in Los Angeles to house her vast collection of some 5,000 costumes and sets after a failed attempt to open one in Las Vegas in the 80s. Now she is ready to move on. A report on the Debbie Reynolds costume auction. [...]