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Marilyn Monroe more fascination pt 2
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Antichrist Superstar $6.32 Marilyn Manson started out as a depraved, marginally talented group of freaks that played a caustic but undeveloped brand of metallic industrial noise. Then Trent Reznor stepped into the studio for seven months with the band, and Manson emerged with the most intense, visceral, mechanical metal album since The Downward Spiral. Antichrist Superstar is a horror-house of grisly atrocities that stains … |
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Watermark $7.49 Enya’s 1988 recording Watermark achieved landmark success with her groundbreaking use of multi-tracking technology to fuse new age and Celtic themes and instrumentation. The meticulous production defines her sound and achieves continuity even while weaving together tender ballads, piano pieces, massively layered vocal harmonies, and symphonic synthesizer movements. Although Enya’s pristine voice i… |
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Some Like It Hot [VHS] $2.75 Maybe “nobody’s perfect,” as one character in this masterpiece suggests. But some movies are perfect, and Some Like It Hot is one of them. In Chicago, during the Prohibition era, two skirt-chasing musicians, Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), inadvertently witness the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. In order to escape the wrath of gangland chief Spats Colombo (George Raft), the boys, in dr… |
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [VHS] $2.46 Anita Loos’s old story from the 1920s about a pair of single women in search of husbands gets a makeover in Howard Hawks’s 1953 musical, starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as friends who go to Paris looking for mates. The film is charged by Hawks’s stylish snap, a famous set piece or two (Monroe descending that staircase while singing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”), Russell’s wit, and … |
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Death Becomes Her $4.51 Wild black comedy from director Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump”) with Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep as rivals who’ll do anything to stave off growing old, from fighting over plastic surgeon Bruce Willis to obtaining a magical elixir from witch Isabella Rossellini. The potion not only keeps them young, but it allows them to survive “accident” after “accident” without dying! 103 min. Standard; Soundt… |
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The Kennedys $10.50 It’s not hard to see why the History Channel declined to air The Kennedys after members of America’s “royal family” objected to the series’ more salacious aspects. To be sure, there are plenty of them: drug habits, mobsters, election fixing, enough philandering to shame Tiger Woods, bad behavior ranging from cynical manipulation to outright cruelty… and Marilyn Monroe. But it’s not as if these t… |
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My Week with Marilyn (DVD/Blu-ray Combo) $16.99 Anyone doubting the layered, nuanced, and heartbreaking acting abilities of Michelle Williams will find My Week with Marilyn a tremendous revelation. And Williams fans will enjoy it even more. In My Week with Marilyn Williams takes on the formidable challenge of playing Marilyn Monroe, and does so with depth and assuredness, and without resorting to caricature. Williams’s Marilyn commands the scre… |
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Making Faces $10.95 Kevyn Aucoin Making Faces 1 piece Learn the basics of makeup application and how to use them. Kevyn Aucoin Making Faces Illustrates the basics of makeup application Step-by-step instructions make learning a snap Teaches you how to apply everything from concealer to fake eyelashes Shows how the basics are used to create dramatic looks Perfect for an aspiring makeup artist… |
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My Story $13.27 Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe DiMaggio. In this intimate account of a very public life, she tells of her … |
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Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters $17.23 Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe’s humanity.Marilyn’s image is so universal that we can’t help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts… |