The Performance, Not the Person My Story feels less like encountering Marilyn Monroe the woman and more like watching Marilyn Monroe the performance. The book presents itself as a memoir but never shakes the sense of being unfinished, stylized, and more concerned with image than honesty.Monroe casts herself as a misunderstood intellect, yearning to transcend the “dumb blonde” roles Hollywood pushed on her. Yet the life we know she actually lived—her choices, her career moves, her embrace of stardom—rarely matches […]
I recently finished Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large by William Shatner, and I have to say — I’ve really grown to respect the man, not just as Captain Kirk or the Priceline guy, but as an author and a human being who’s lived boldly and unapologetically. His stories are genuinely interesting. There’s an energy to the way he tells them — a momentum that carries you along as he jumps from his […]
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