A new biography of Marilyn Monroe is on the block: Lois Banner's The Passion and the Paradox.
A review of the book has three striking observations about Monroe:
1. There are multiple rumors of who Marilyn really was. I like this one best--she was both a dumb blonde and a bookworm who read Dostoyevsky.
2. Monroe justified promiscuity with the conviction that sex was "an act that brought friends closer together."
3. Marilyn had recurring visions of striding over a supine row of church congregants who peered up her skirt.
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