Best Title of the Year So Far …

SXSW Film lights up

"...release: "A Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) befriends a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton), who takes him to live..."

Jan. 15, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique

Author Kelly DiNardo recounts the fascinating life of 'the queen of striptease'

"...throughout the Forties and Fifties, Lili St. Cyr influenced Marilyn Monroe, performed with Dean Martin, and danced well into..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Eurobad or Eurogood?

"...stable, bidets galore, green wood, an overexcited child, a Marilyn Monroe mirror, a circular stovetop island, and a very..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Design Post by Andy Campbell

Aretha Franklin

Liveshot

"...Brothers testified; mothers wept. One girl in a Fifties Marilyn Monroe dress looked like she was going to burst..."

April 27, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Letters @ 3AM

One of the great lessons of civilizations is that smarts don't count for much in the long run

"...lost glories like '69 Chevies and Louis Armstrong and Marilyn Monroe. But we won't cause as much trouble for..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

O. Henry's Full House

His popular (and populist) short stories pretty much invited adaptations, a calculated risk that 20th Century Fox decided to gamble on in 1952

"...and Nunnally Johnson), a semi-all-star cast (including a young Marilyn Monroe as New York's most fetching streetwalker), and topped..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

The Mr. Moto Collection

"...may not have reached the heights of her idol, Marilyn Monroe, but she made better movies, including the delirious..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

Nerd Burn

How WEFAIL Web design has found success while spending way too much time online

"...beneath his blazer when his head isn't superimposed on Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, or the titular scenery-chewer...."

Feb. 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

'Mr. Smarty Pants' Is the Best Part of the 'Chronicle'

"...Del Coronado, in San Diego, Calif., featured in the Marilyn Monroe movie Some Like It Hot, was the first..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Postmarks

After a Fashion

Stephen lovingly remembers his time designing couture for Zach Scott Theatre

"...in designing the clothes for the character based on Marilyn Monroe, making life-sized Barbie clothes like fishtail gowns, voluminous..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Get Visionary With Me Here

We are no longer pioneers of the digital age. We're miners.

"...can stroll the main drag of Hollywood, and it's Marilyn Monroe all the way. They're still retailing the sex..."

March 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Bruce Sterling

Nobody Runs Forever

No. 26 in Richard Stark's, aka Donald Westlake's, Parker series finds the master thief taking us on a thrill ride among armored cars and badass female bounty hunters

"...in 1962, same year as James Bond? Same year Marilyn Monroe sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to the First..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Books Review by Jesse Sublett

A Christmas Carol Roasting on an Open Fire

In A Christmas Carol Roasting on an Open Fire, Rob Nash adds a clever curve to the holiday tale, matching Hollywood stars with Dickens' familiar characters

"...pays tribute to and subverts Dickens' enduring tale. Having Marilyn Monroe play Tiny Tim is surprisingly apt given her..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Duck and Cover

It took an international incident of nuclear brinksmanship to teach me the real meaning of Thanksgiving.

"...was the August death of every schoolboy's sexual fantasy, Marilyn Monroe, from a drug overdose (whatever that was). On..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Big Books: Part One

From Zora Neale Hurston to the National Football League

"...loaded with pictures of original artifacts (Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe comes to mind), these kits provide armchair museum..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Books Feature by Kate X Messer

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Resisting enemy interrogation, government- subsidized health care, and hula dancing

"...Kuma Hula Ku'ulei Punua, once taught John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe, among others, to hula...."

Dec. 3, 2004 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Cricket fights, cousins, and birds

"...a ninth cousin, once removed of Hugh Hefner and Marilyn Monroe, while Bush is a ninth cousin, twice removed..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

The Dalai Lama was a swinger.

"...Based on Marilyn Monroe's measurements of 36-24-37, she was estimated to wear..."

April 30, 2004 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Pickup on South Street

"...big car parked outside" according to Fuller, was no Marilyn Monroe, who the director reveals purred for the part...."

April 23, 2004 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Run for Your Wife

In Onstage Theatre Company's production of the farce Run For Your Wife, you get engaging performances, split-second timing, and a lot of laughs

"...is like kissing your sister, unless your sister is Marilyn Monroe or Raquel Welch or Elle Macpherson, in which..."

Feb. 6, 2004 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Letters at 3AM

We have replaced our concept of the heroic with the superheroic, and the sense of the possible with the impossible.

"...by an act of bravado but by admitting that Marilyn Monroe is right. Yet these characters are all heroes,..."

July 25, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Getting Their Due

The 2003 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

"...Farrah Fawcett was to the Seventies what Marilyn Monroe was to the Fifties, the golden girl whose..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...of 1962 saw Andy Warhol's Green Coca-Cola Bottles and Marilyn Monroe...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Guy Clark

Texas Platters

"...a wide range of characters like "Arizona Star," a Marilyn Monroe look-alike, and the Civil War soldier in "Soldier's..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Letters at 3am

Learning about "manhood" from the movies.

"...palpable without ever being quite sure of itself; while Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn signified powerful aspects of "woman"..."

May 31, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Mr. Smarty Pants

"...Marilyn Monroe wore a size 12...."

March 15, 2002 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Liquid Assets

Sparkling wines and champagnes

"...Marilyn Monroe bathed in it (or so they say). Winston..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Food Column by Wes Marshall

Pages as Presents

2001's crop of coffeetable books

"...memorable snapshots of a wide variety of celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Lyndon Johnson, and photographer Edward Steichen. Snaps just..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

After a Fashion

Stephen gets a new hairdo!

"...Vreeland, Angelina Jolie, Mary Quant, Betsey Johnson, Pamela Anderson, Marilyn Monroe, John Travolta, Chloe Sevigny, Sarah Jessica Parker, Edie..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Tattoo Coup

A Leander PTA president is forced to resign because of -- aaaiiiggghheee -- piercings!

"...Mitchell looks more like a punk rock version of Marilyn Monroe than someone who answers to "Mommy."..."

Sept. 14, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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