I’m not convinced those comments are the whole reason for the staff rejig. Hot Topics have been luke-warm for some time now and the show still struggles to book quality guests because of the underlying adversarial approach; it’s not classy and no one’s going to tie their brand to hers until there’s a change in tone,…

Because this site may be ending soon as we know it, may I quietly (because I’ll be lost in the greys for sure), take this chance to say I’ve enjoyed your presence here and I wish you well always. x

I’d forgotten this! Mind you, I’d forgotten him!

...and pixidust and moonbeams too!

I hope she knows it’s the Hippocratic Oath not the Hypocritic.

I know; because the equilibrium of her self-esteem is what matters here. Ah, the power of hindsight...

You’re welcome. I do know that when MM died, Joe DiMaggio kept the service to close friends and family and, sadly, Ella was turned away at the gate. But how decent and proper was that act by Marilyn in support of Ella?

In my opinion yes, but it gets lost. Morality, sexual and otherwise is relative to the times so I shan’t comment on what’s said about her sexuality. However, she dragged herself from modest unpromising beginnings into quite another milieu. Emerging from a dysfunctional family to reinvent herself as an independent…

I recall, years ago, seeing her make-up man interviewed about visiting her at home, in her last days, where she’d had lots of plants delivered for her garden and was planning their planting - that’s not a suicide and I doubt murder. Although your completely plausible option seems, surprisingly, never to have been…

I recall visiting friends in LA and asking them to take me to the small cemetery in Westwood where she is buried. I remember being struck dumb (highly unusual), at her grave, not with the sadness of her death or any of that nonsense, but by the evidence that she had actually ever lived, so mythical she’s become.…

S&M; standing and modelling.

No lips. Not a decent pair of lips between the lot of them. Lipless. Just a cloaca type opening.

Have to say she recovered well there but all the flunkies & toadies around her totally betrayed her expectations.

...and why do I know what you’re talking about?

A lot of people claim publicists set up these “fauxmances,” but gosh how do you really engineer that and what type of person allows that?

What’s that word......? Ah yes! Dignity.

What is real? Does it need to be real? In branding terms it’s real to them and it’s virtually actual to us, which is all that matters on their vertically integrated social media brand endorsement timelines no?

It’s almost as though she’s taken Binyavanga Wainaina’s How to Write about Africa as a manual rather than a criticism “Throughout the book, adopt a sotto voice, in conspiracy with the reader, and a sad I-expected-so-much tone. Establish early on that your liberalism is impeccable, and mention near the beginning how…

Completely unrelated because it wasn’t, it’s not a song about being unable to afford a Ferrari, it’s a protest song about George W. Bush

One of them is slightly cross-eyed. I’m not sure which.