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Did these two actors, both quite conservative, see the parallels between Norton and studio moguls like Sam Goldwyn? Did Norton's private police force suggest to these men who began as extras the incipient fascism of the system they had endured? In Brennan's case, the answer is probably yes. Years later, reminiscing about the Hollywood studio system, he told a television director that the studio guard was among "the feared men in Hollywood."..
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The Thatcher/Major years, as far as Michael was concerned, had wrecked the world that the 1945 Labour landslide had inaugurated. Shortly after the incident with Major, Michael traveled to Manchester from his constituency in Wales. The trip required a change of trains in Abergavenny: I used to go down there when I first got to that part of the world--1930s in the Monmouth constituency was the first place I fought a campaign. Abergavenny was ..
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January 23: DiMaggio drives Marilyn to Boston to meet with Henry Rosenfeld, a dress manufacturer and potential investor in Marilyn Monroe Productions. Rosenfeld declines to become a major contributor, although Greene secures some funds to support Marilyn at the Gladstone, to which she and DiMaggio return the same day.
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January 23: Joe Wolhandler of Rogers & Cowan, public relations, writes to tell Marilyn he has denied several rumors, including the report that she is--or is not--adopting a baby, and that she is entering a clinic in Houston, Texas. In a postscript, he adds, "I AM IN THE BUSINESS 20 YEARS AND I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW THESE THINGS HAPPEN."
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CR] Do you think John Smith would have done as well as Blair? [MF] Yes--better in some ways. He had better links with the Labour Party. There are some things he [Blair] seems to be careless about.
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January 26: Marilyn arrives on the set on time at 7:00 a.m., but then departs abruptly in full makeup two hours later. Producer Buddy Adler looks at the rushes and is shocked. Marilyn looks overweight, and he dislikes her chalky white makeup, similar to what she used in Bus Stop.
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January 26: Kazan asks Miller to escort Marilyn to a party that Charles Feldman is hosting in honor of Miller. Miller and Marilyn spend time together visiting bookshops and going on a picnic. He watches her delight in reading an e.e. cummings poem.
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January 26: Marilyn is invited to attend the Foreign Press Association's First Annual International Film Festival at the Club Del Mar in Santa Monica and creates a sensation by wearing an Idaho potato burlap bag designed for her by Billy Travilla.
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January 26: The Independent Theater Owners of Arkansas confer on Marilyn the "State's Most Popular Movie Actress" award."
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January 26: The studio suspends Marilyn again.
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January 26: Journalist George Carpozi Jr. interviews Marilyn at the Gladstone Hotel. He is accompanied by photographer George Miller, who accompanies Marilyn, dressed in a dark fur coat, on a walk through Central Park. She drives with DiMaggio to Cooperstown, New York, to see his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. They also visit his brother Dominic and Dominic's wife Emily, who are living near Boston.
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Just then Michael was exercised about a letter he had received from Michael Scammell, Arthur Koestler's authorised biographer, raising doubts that his subject had actually raped Jill. Certain of her friends had expressed their skepticism to Scammell, he reported. Michael pronounced Scammell's name so that it sounded to me like "Scoundrel." --
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Talk about Michael sex's life segued into a discussion of Arthur Koestler's rape of Jill, a story that Michael himself first revealed in a review of a book about Koestler. He caused an uproar in the press and among Jill's and Michael's friends. Frederic Raphael wrote a piece questioning Jill's account, suggesting she had exaggerated or perhaps had even led Koestler on. There were other skeptics, although another woman came forward, writing ..
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January 28: Some Like It Hot is previewed at the Bay Theatre in Pacific Palisades. No one laughs, except Steve Allen and a few friends invited to the screening.
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February 11: Actress Edith Evanson visits Marilyn's Brentwood home to work on the Swedish accent Marilyn is to use for her disguise as a maid in Something's Got to Give, an identity Marilyn's character adopts when returning home to her husband, who presumes she has died in an air crash. "Everything was dark, heavy and depressing. It had a creepy feeling about it but I thought nothing of it because she talked of her plans for decorating and ..
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In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson argues that Brennan should have won awards for even better performances in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), The Far Country (1955), and Rio Bravo (1959). Thomson counts no less than twenty-eight high caliber Brennan performances in still more films, including These Three (1936), Fury (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), and Bad Day At Black Rock (..
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February 26: At the French Film Institute in New York City, Marilyn receives the Crystal Star as "Best Foreign Actress" for her performance in The Prince and the Showgirl. At the party afterward, she is photographed holding and kissing a dachshund."
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