Love, Marilyn

[Wynbish]

Posted: 6/18/13 at 12:25am

Did anyone see this on HBO tonight? I was captivated, mostly by how they used actors to speak her words and others' words. Although it is odd to have Viola Davis follow Lindsay Lohan Updated On: 6/18/13 at 12:25 AM

[all that jazz]

Posted: 6/18/13 at 12:33am

I missed it!!!

Hopefully I'll catch it tomorrow.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 6/18/13 at 12:39am

On top of the diverse actresses for Marilyn, Ben Foster was Norman Mailer, Adrien Brody was Capote, Jeremy Piven was Elia Kazan and several more interesting combinations

[clever name]

Posted: 6/18/13 at 12:46am

Oh crap I forgot it was on tonight. I wanted to see that. And here I am watching The Bachelorette.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 6/18/13 at 8:36am

It was a good show. Would have been better if some of the appearances (by an amazing number of great actors) had not been so mannered and actory, ironically showing a self-consciousness that we never saw from Monroe on screen. Glenn Close dodged all of that, doing some of the best work I've seen her do in years. And Glenn looked beautiful. (Hope Davis has had some very bad work done - why, Hope, why?)

[Wynbish]

Posted: 6/18/13 at 9:42am

I enjoyed Jennifer Ehle's and Lily Taylor's parts, as well as Glenn's. Uma was a little bit much. Still don't know why they got Lindsay Lohan.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 11:19am

I just watched it. It really was a bizarre "acting class" watching great actors pretend to go into their first cold reading and "act" out these passages.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 7:49pm

I understand why they used multiple actresses to read MM's writings, but for me, they could have kept Marisa Tomei and sent the rest of them home. (Well, okay, keep Glenn Close and let her read Paula Strasberg or something.)

Funny how they skipped over MM's death. I guess once you suggest it wasn't a suicide, you either have to blame the Kennedy's or roll the credits...

Updated On: 6/20/13 at 07:49 PM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 8:00pm

I saw it was on, but not until there were only about 45 minutes left. Hope I can catch it later!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 8:03pm

Well, DVR's a girls best friend!

[E.Davis]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 8:29pm

Thought Stephen Lang was quite good.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 10:12pm

I would've liked to had seen the actresses act in a more Marilynesque fashion, but overall I loved it. Glenn and Marisa were amazing of course, but Uma was my favorite.

I was quite surprised they didn't mention Kennedy, but at the same time I didn't expected them to get into her murder either, so I guess it made sense.

[larrystyles]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 11:21pm

" Still don't know why they got Lindsay Lohan."

because Lindsay is the modern day Marilyn

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 11:30pm

Um.....no?

Want to give some comparisons between the two beyond showing up late on set?

[larrystyles]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 11:31pm

24/7 media frenzy.... legendary beauty... talent... iconic addiction.... playboy spread... etc

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 11:34pm

Legendary beauty?

As for the others, that can be said for any number of people in today's world. Lindsay Lohan is in no way shape or form the modern day equivalent of Marilyn Monroe.

[larrystyles]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 11:36pm

you sound obese

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/19/13 at 11:39pm

And you sound lonely.

[CalebMeyer]

Posted: 6/20/13 at 2:04am

At her best I'd say she's definitely an iconic beauty....at her worst? now that's a different story

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/20/13 at 2:23am

"24/7 media frenzy.... legendary beauty... talent.."

Really?!

The media today is 24/7 for everyone. It wasn't so when Marilyn was alive.

Her beauty is questionable. To each their own, but there is NOTHING legendary about her.

And I think her talent was apparent when she tried to imitate Elizabeth Taylor to laughingly terrible reviews.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/20/13 at 3:36am

You have to wait--even in this era--for a few decades before anyone's beauty is "legendary."

[AnthVoice2010]

Posted: 6/20/13 at 11:25am

I love how Facebooks is filled with all these crap sayings that Monroe supposedly said.

She said none of it.

This was one seriously depressed woman who suffered from the thought that she would one day go “Insane” like her own Mother and Grandmother did.

It is a testament to what spirit she did have that she made it in a business that eats the wounded by the pound..

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 6/20/13 at 11:30am

Why do you think she said none of them? And how does her having been depressed suggest that she did not?

[AnthVoice2010]

Posted: 6/20/13 at 11:36am

Women didn't talk about loving their bodies and enjoying their figures and not being a "trap" to men to begin with in 1957...

Let alone, Monroe

Monroe's image and publicity was guarded like Fort Knox by 20th...

When they did let her talk without Pat Kingsley, everyone regreted it ...

This was not a woman prone to make statements in the vein of an Oprah..

Read her later interviews...almost all of them have an edge of someone lost, lonely and unhappy...

That is not the image anyone in the Monroe camp wanted to project to the world as coming from a beloved movie star...

Updated On: 6/20/13 at 11:36 AM

[all that jazz]

Posted: 6/20/13 at 11:46am

Well, Marilyn was no ordinary woman, and let us not forget that her iconic public persona and her inner insecure self were two completely different persons.

Marilyn may not have meant some of those things, but that doesn't mean she didn't say them as part of her act.