Plus it has her most iconic outfits. But my favorite is that magenta gown she wears in How to Marry a Milionaire. 

“No one would have given a shit about that if I’d made the movie in 2008, and probably no one’s going to care about it in four years’ time.”

And Just Like That, they brought Samantha back

I never really got into it, but the missus loves it so we have a copy on DVD from way back. And I love me some Bette Midler so I’m not bothered.

I liked the romance, but I thought it was pretty snoozy in how it explored queerdom. It was nice having people of colour lead the film, but it still felt very sanitized. give me romance give me filth.

That photo of them by a pool or beach (hard to tell) could have been a still from Top Gun.

You’re not as incisive as you think you are.

She was a legitimately good actress. I was surprised when I first discovered that, only knowing her dumb blonde image. Did she basically play a variation on the same character in every movie? Yeah, but you could say the same for a lot of Hollywood greats, including Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and many, many more. Some…

living in Reno, i’ve heard about The Misfits for 30 years, but until the pandemic i never sat down to watch it. i was unprepared. that movie blew me away. it’s much MUCH darker than even i was expecting, after hearing all about it locally for so long. what a movie, and all the performances are incredible. Monroe was…

Lisa Kudrow is a goddess on Earth

Fire Island represents so much progress! In that gay men can have utterly mediocre and instantly forgettable comedies, too.

Same, the script felt like a first draft. I was left super underwhelmed, and I thought the love interests were so, so bland. Love Billy anyway and super excited for this one.

The C+ was for the first episode. They gave episodes 2 and 3 a B+ each. (AV Club getting weird with multi-episode ratings in a single review again.)

I’m sorry, but if I’m making a gay men rom com, I’m calling it You’ve Got Male.

I didn’t love Fire Island, weak jokes despite some very funny comics in it. This looks genuinely lol, can’t wait.

I just recently watched Niagara and I do think she did a really good job playing a world-weary femme fatale type when she was still young and inexperienced. Like there may be a moment or two when she struggles but for the most part it’s really convincing. 

I learned from listening to this interview that Sigourney Weaver is an incredibly well-spoken and thoughtful person, and this article’s headline is creating a lot of drama that really isn’t there at all when you listen to it. It’s just another disappointing example of the current state of clickbait journalism.

I feel that’s perhaps a very cynical take. Her character is doing her best to survive at the time with what choices she has. The fact that others underestimate her intelligence, including the audience, is an early subversion of the “bimbo trope”. I’d say that trope is one that continues to persists, with a lot of…

“Good hangover Vietnam!”

We can argue specific rankings, but the Dominik thing is as good excuse as any to provide a retrospective on Monroe’s actual work. When people like him say “Does anyone watch Marilyn Monroe movies?”, someone needs to stand up and reply, “Yes, and here are the ones worth watching”.