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20+ Years in Show Business
Topic Started: Jun 21 2006, 01:45 AM (7,509 Views)
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I saw tonight where Bea Arthur was in show biz and working for 7 decades, (translation for Madonna fans: 70 years). I doubt Vadge will be walking and posing around on stage when she's in her 90s.
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I am proud to be gay, says pop star Ricky Martin
  • 29 March 2010

    Puerto Rican pop star Ricky Martin has announced he is gay, ending years of speculation over his sexuality.

    Martin, who has sold more than 60 million albums in a career spanning three decades, said on his website that he felt "blessed to be who he was".

    ....Martin began his career in the 1980s with the Puerto Rican boy-band, Menudo.
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I think we've had Bon Jovi on the list before, but this is another article that points out that they've been in show biz for 30 years and are still making albums and selling out tours.

Tour brings Bon Jovi full-circle - The group says it's still relevant after 15 albums
  • By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR
    Published: 4/11/2010

    For close to 30 years, New Jersey rock act Bon Jovi has told its tale of the working couple, of Tommy and Gina. They've also lived that tale, "Livin' on a Prayer," from their 1986 hit album "Slippery When Wet." The theme reverberates perhaps stronger in today's economic climate, and in the new Bon Jovi hit "Working Man," from the 2009 release "The Circle."

    The quintet has stuck close to its original lineup for most of that time: lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres and bassist Hugh McDonald. (Alec John Such was replaced by McDonald around 1994.) For the current tour, they've also added extra axe power with guest guitarist Bobby Bandiera.

    "The Circle World Tour" is an endeavor of more than two years that follows on the heels of Bon Jovi's latest hit studio album, "The Circle." It debuted at No. 1 around the world. Another greatest hits album (including three new songs) is due around Christmas.

    [Excerpt from interview with band members]

    How do you guys feel like you remain relevant on the radio after all these years?

    Richie Sambora: Good songs, you know, just songs that connect with people from a lyrical standpoint. I think that Jon and I as writers were lucky enough to somehow hit a nerve where, you know, you write a song that is something about
    what we're feeling, that translates to audiences across the globe.

    And it's important that you write about what's happening at this point in the world today. What that feels like and plugging into that is a very, very important thing from a songwriting standpoint. And I think that that's what translates songs to people all over the world.

    To what do you attribute the longevity of the band and the band's success after all these years?

    Tico Torres: I think basically what keeps us fresh is the fact that we try to reinvent ourselves musically and listen to what's happening sound-wise. And then when it comes (time) to do a record, it's the writing. I think you try not to emulate anything you did in the past but try to grow. We got this theory of trying to evolve as musicians and as a band.

    Everything in the past can't really help you when you're writing a new record. It's important to keep that in mind.
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Devo returns after 20-year absence
  • By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR, World Scene Writer

    Originally formed in Akron, Ohio, in 1973, Devo earned status for its authority-defying lyrics, mechanical new wave beats and cynical snark set to buoyant tempos and danceable beats. "We're not the guys who freak people out and scare them — we're like the house band on the Titanic, entertaining everybody as we go down," bandmate and founder Gerald Cosale said in a recent press statement.

    Now, some 20 years after the band's last studio album, it's back with another multimedia experiment, "Something for Everybody."
Pat Benatar's new memoir 'Between a Heart and a Rock Place'
  • By Elizabeth Snead
    June 14, 2010 11:32 AM ET

    Four-time Grammy winner Pat Benatar is still one of the top selling female singers of all time, and she was considered the powerful feminist rock voice of the '80s.

    Remember "Heartbreaker", "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", "Love Is A Battlefield", "Shadows Of The Night"?

    She totaled nineteen Top 40 singles, six platinum and four gold albums and she was the first woman rocker featured on MTV. Take that, Madonna.

    On Tuesday (June 15) her memoir "Between a Heart and a Rock Place" (Harper Collins) is hitting bookstores. The autobiography details her childhood, playing clubs in New York, living in the fledgling MTV generation, crazy backstage moments, hilarious touring tales and how hard it was to break into the boys club of rock and roll.

    Check out this video to hear her talk about her feminist onstage character, displaying sexuality as a means of power, and her love for Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Beyonce who have followed the path she helped pave.

    Pat is one class act.
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Cameron Diaz, Madonna & Scarlett Johansson Topped by Marilyn Monroe: Greatest Blonde
  • By Staff
    Aug 30, 2010

    Modern day beauties Cameron Diaz, Madonna and Scarlett Johansson can't top Marilyn Monroe as the classic beauty has been named the greatest blonde of all time. The late screen legend beat off stiff competition to be awarded the title in a new poll.

    In second place was actress Grace Kelly - who famously married Prince Rainier III of Monaco - French beauty Brigitte Bardot was third, while Cameron came fourth.

    A spokesman for Clairol Nice 'n Easy - the company which commissioned One Poll to carry out the survey - said: "Marilyn Monroe has always been known for her iconic blonde hair. But it's amazing to think that even now, almost half a century after her death, she has still beaten modern blondes to the top spot."

    "Her hair is synonymous with 1950s glamor but it has stood the test of time against hair styles and colors which have come and gone over the years."

    Other platinum stars to make the top twenty include Fleetwood Mac star Stevie Nicks who came eighth, Blondie singer Debbie Harry in tenth spot, Madonna made it to eleventh place, while Gwen Stefani took fourteenth place.

    Marilyn became an icon after her tragic death in 1962 and had relationships with a string of famous men during her life, including playwright Arthur Miller - who was one of her three husbands - and allegedly US President John F. Kennedy.

    Greatest Blondes of All Time, according to One Poll:

    1. Marilyn Monroe

    2. Grace Kelly

    3. Brigitte Bardot

    4. Cameron Diaz

    5. Holly Willoughby

    6. Joanna Lumley

    7. Scarlett Johansson

    8. Stevie Nicks

    9. Olivia Newton-John

    10. Debbie Harry

    11. Madonna

    12. Doris Day

    13. Goldie Hawn

    14. Gwen Stefani

    15. Denise Van Outen

    16. Barbara Windsor

    17. Honor Blackman

    18. Tess Daly

    19. Charlize Theron

    20. Paris Hilton
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On blogs with articles that insist that Lady Gaga, Rihanna, or whomever is the greatest thing since sliced bread, I frequently see Madonna fans chip in to the comments section to slam newer singers such as Lady Gaga by mentioning that Grandma-donna has been in show biz now for 20 some odd years, and they yell, "She's the queen, she's the queen!!11!!!!!111!!!"

If your main or only criteria is longevity in the public eye, shouldn't these block heads be declaring Cher, Tina Turner, Belinda Carlisle, "queen?"

Cher and Turner have been touring and making records since the 1960s or '70s and continue to release the occasional album, show up at awards shows, or tour...

And Carlisle has been around for as long as Grandma-donna, so too Kylie Minogue. And Cyndi Lauper.
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The only remarkable thing about the longevity of madonna's 'career' is how someone of such moderate talent and mediocre (at best) artistic ability has managed to hang around so long.

What her fans can rightfully tout is her inscrutable tenacity.

But it's a tenacity born of avarice, greed and narcissism, so it's nothing to be proud of.
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I saw an ad of madoona crap sh** on MGM the other day and thought not again.

Here's real quality in music.

Richard Marx started singing from the age of 5 makes it a whopping 42 years of experience.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdmHHoI9beM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marx
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I wish we had a better thread for this, but I'm a little too lazy at the moment to make (and then have to index) a new one about women pop / rock pioneers (because you know the media almost always behave as though Madonna is the first female singer, when she's not - she ripped off Debbie Harry who came before her, for one. Donna Summer was also the queen of disco music years before Madonna made dance records.)

Here's a rare article that mentions that there were other significant female singers before Madonna:

The superwomen of rock
  • Fran Rimrod
    November 25, 2010 - 3:28PM

    Long before there ever was a Lady Gaga, and even long before there was Madonna, there were two iconic women of music – Chrissie Hynde and Debbie Harry.

    It was a trip back in time to the roots of 80s punk and new wave at the fully sold out The Pretenders and Blondie concert at Kings Park yesterday.

    When Hynde and her band took to the stage, it almost seemed like no time had passed since those days in the 80s.

    Donning ultra-slim stovepipe jeans and cowboy boots, you wouldn't guess that the super-skinny frontwoman is now almost 60 years old.

    Hynde, who played at A Day on the Green in Perth three years ago, showed with her unique tough but tender voice why she was so instrumental in forming the new wave music scene of the late 70s and early 80s.

    The crowd, most of which seemed to be around when this iconic band reached cult status, were ecstatic when the band showed off their favourite hits Back on the Chain Gang, Talk of the Town and Brass in Pocket.

    Then the blond bombshell Debbie Harry – AKA Blondie - appeared.

    Harry’s outfit was just like Hynde's, reminiscent of 80s fashion, with a white tulle petticoat, a sparkling belt and the trademark peroxide blonde hair.

    Blondie, having sold more than 40 million albums, brought her popular back catalogue including Heart of Glass, The Tide is High, Call Me and One Way or Another to life.

    Her performance of Rapture included a rap interlude. The song was one of the first commercially successful songs of that genre back in her time.

    While it was wonderful to sing-along to these most influential songs, and it was awe-inspiring to watch this iconic woman just a few feet away on stage, Harry seemed a little bit uninspired yesterday.

    I just expected a tiny but more enthusiasm from the founding-mother of punk music.

    But that didn't stop the crowd at the tightly packed venue jumping off their seats and getting their 80s dance on.

    The atmosphere was amazing, and there are plenty more big acts coming our way for An Evening On the Green, which in its 10th seaons boasts its biggest and best line-up ever.
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J J Cale 53 years

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George Baker 44 years

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Edited by anshirk, Oct 10 2011, 11:26 AM.
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I'm posting this for the Whitney Houston info, not the Madonna stuff:

Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" Back in Top 10 After 20 Years; Madonna Extends Her Lead in Most Top 10's
  • Just as this week's album chart (to be issued Thursday) will be full of re-surging music by Whitney Houston, the same will occur on the Billboard Hot 100.

    In a truly amazing accomplishment, Houston's classic I Will Always Love You jumps back onto the chart at number 7, almost twenty years after its last appearance on the chart.

    The track sold 195,000 downloads last week along with receiving 18 million audience impressions on radio.

    As with the album chart, this all occurred in the 36 hours after her passing was made public as chart data closes at midnight Sunday night/Monday morning.

    Two other Houston songs also jump back on the Hot 100, I Wanna Dance With (Somebody Who Loves Me) at 35 and Greatest Love of All at 41.
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How Davy Jones And The Monkees Paved The Way For Jay-Z And Madonna‎

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  • The passing of Monkees frontman Davy Jones, who died of a heart attack yesterday at age 66, serves as a reminder that the 360 format has been around for ages, and it hasn’t always been so kind to artists. Yet the unfavorable multiple rights deals signed by the likes of The Monkees served as the foundation for the massive pacts landed by big names of the 2000s.

    Early 360 deals ensured that record labels owned the rights to everything, even bands’ names (in 1971, The Monkees’ label revoked the band’s right to use its simian moniker, prompting the group to release an album under surnames Dolenz and Jones). The practice continued in the 1990s with groups like The Backstreet Boys and The Pussycat Dolls, both of which were dreamed up by music industry executives.

    ...With stars like Jay-Z and Madonna grossing over $1 million per show, joint ventures that guarantee record labels a slice of the touring pie seem to be a much-needed lifeline. Yet what’s good for Jay-Z or Madonna isn’t necessarily so great for an up-and-coming artist.

    ...Davy Jones and The Monkees opened the door to a blueprint that has made certain artists very wealthy and others very frustrated. Here’s to hoping to more of the former—no doubt it’s what Jones would have wanted.
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20 plus years of ripping off other artists. What a feat. I don't know where Madonna gets all the energy from...
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20 plus years of ripping off other artists. What a feat. I don't know where Madonna gets all the energy from...
Have you posted to the board before, whistleblower? If not - welcome to the board.

As for her getting tired ripping off other people. I read in an interview or two many years ago that she admits to regularly watching old movies on TV and flipping through photo books of art and Hollywood movie stars of the past.

I'm guessing she doesn't get too exhausted just watching TV and perusing books to find images to copy :laugh:
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I think I mentioned Wanda Jackson in a previous post. She is mentioned in this:

Madonna, Hyde Park, London / Wanda Jackson, Islington Assembly Hall, London
  • July 22 2012
    Simon Price

    If you saw Wanda Jackson in the street, with her big black bouffant, emerald eyeshadow and bling, you might take her for a sweet old lady. But within five words of "Riot in Cell Block #9", there's no mistaking that voice. A hellcat rasp rivalled in its day only by Brenda Lee, it's why the Hall of Fame inductee is still known as the Queen of Rockabilly and has a street named after her in Oklahoma City. And it's the reason why, with the excellent Jack White-produced The Party Ain't Over, she's become the oldest woman with an album in the Billboard charts, deposing – as she takes great pleasure in telling a packed theatre – Mae West.

    Jackson's career has followed a familiar trajectory for a Fifties rock'*'roll star: turned to Country in the late Sixties, discovered Jesus in the early Seventies, only to rediscover rock'*'roll in her later years, then find herself rediscovered by successive cool cats from The Fall to Adele, who took Wanda on tour and admitted that Jackson's slinky, sultry "Funnel of Love" inspired "Rolling In The Deep".

    Jackson blazed the trail for generations of she-rockers. She's been recording for 58 years and touring for 56, but there's only one story everyone wants to hear. In her late teens, not turned off by his yellow sports jacket and pink Cadillac, she dated Elvis. And it was Presley, she says, who persuaded her to sing rock'*'roll.

    She returns the compliment by covering his "Good Rockin' Tonight" and "Heartbreak Hotel". She also takes on Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' "Shakin' All Over" and Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good", but the real thrill is hearing her own hits. In "Fujiyama Mama", released just 14 years after the end of the Second World War, Wanda outrageously compares her loving prowess to the atom bomb: "I've been to Nagasaki, Hiroshima too/The things I did to them baby, I can do to you!" Amazingly, it went to No 1 in Japan.

    Jackson's been struggling with a cold all week, but still carries off the acrobatic yodelling in "I Betcha My Heart I Love You", and makes it through to her signature finale "Let's Have a Party". They don't call her Leather Lungs for nothing.

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Marilyn Monroe: Just as hot 50 years after her tragic death
  • With the 50th anniversary of the head-turning bombshell’s demise on Sunday, the eternal Hollywood sexpot remains all tousled blond hair and soft red lips, the voice still breathless and the curves still breathtaking.

    Death has done nothing to diminish the larger-than-life image of Marilyn Monroe.

    The eternal Hollywood sexpot — gone now a half-century — remains all tousled blond hair and soft red lips, the voice still breathless and the curves still breathtaking.

    “She is as iconic and celebrated as she was 50 years ago,” said Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who helped create the mythic Monroe by making her the first Playmate of the Month centerfold. “Her fame is undying.”

    When the 50th anniversary of the head-turning bombshell’s demise arrived Sunday, Monroe was entrenched as a pop culture presence: Part fantasy, part mystery, part tragedy.

    If the broken blonde actress had somehow survived, she would have turned 86 on June 1 — the day her star was rededicated on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

    Her final resting place in Westwood, Calif., remains a popular stop for tourists and fans, most born after her nude body was found lifeless in the bed of her California home on Aug. 5, 1962.

    The oft-contested coroner’s verdict: “Probable suicide.”

    Marilyn Monroe was indisputably gone. But she was certainly never forgotten.

    PHOTOS: REMEMBERING MARILYN MONROE 50 YEARS AFTER HER DEATH

    The star of “The Seven Year Itch” and “Some Like It Hot” left a signature style channeled by divas across the decades: Madonna, Lady Gaga, Lindsay Lohan, Anna Nicole Smith, Mira Sorvino, Michelle Williams, Taylor Swift.

    Williams even starred as Monroe in last year’s acclaimed movie “My Week With Marilyn.”

    The actress also endures on film — the kind once used by photographers to snap endless photos of the always-eager-to-pose-and-please Monroe.

    PHOTOS: HER LEGACY LIVES ON! CELEBS WHO STAR AS MARILYN MONROE

    An exhibit of legendary lensman Bert Stern’s “Last Sitting” nude shots, taken two months before her death, went on display in June.

    And the Polish government is running a collection of Monroe shots taken by celebrity photographer Milton Greene — including some never-before-seen photos. The display opens Monday.

    The Monroe men included three husbands: LAPD Det. James Daugherty, back when she was 16-year-old Norma Jean Baker, followed by New York Yankees Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller.

    But rumors and rumblings linked her romantically to others: Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, Tony Curtis, director Elia Kazan, President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby.

    “Marilyn is the definitive sex icon of our time,” said Hefner, born two months before Monroe. “And there are clear reasons. It’s not simply beauty and sexuality — there’s vulnerability.”

    Her links to the high-powered Kennedy siblings fueled endless speculation that Monroe was murdered to permanently keep her silent.

    Marilyn-maniacs already marked the 50th anniversary of her coquettish birthday serenade of JFK on May 16, 1962.

    By the time of her Madison Square Garden appearance with the President, Monroe was a pill-popping mess with just three months to live. Her dress was so tight that Monroe was literally sewn into the outfit, and couldn’t wear anything beneath the barely-there sheer material.

    The rhinestone-embroidered sheath dress still packs a wallop: It sold at auction for $1.2 million. And that’s cheap: The Monroe dress worn in the famous subway grate picture for “The Seven Year Itch” sold just last year for $5.6 million.

    While the shot of Monroe’s skirt circling her hips seems tame in the era of the sex tape, the slightly risque shot aggravated DiMaggio long after her death.

    The Yankee Clipper once appeared for an Associated Press interview in the wire service’s iconic Rockefeller Center headquarters. The photos on the wall included the Monroe shot. The great DiMaggio spotted the picture, turned around, and left the building without uttering a word.

    Keeping the Monroe persona both popular and profitable is the job of Nick Woodhouse, chief marketing officer for the estate.

    Authentic Brands Group, after buying the account 18 months ago, brought the ’50s sex symbol into the new millennium: Monroe boasts 3.3 million Facebook fans (slightly ahead of rocker Marilyn Manson) and more than 53,000 Twitter followers.

    Last year, Forbes put Monroe at No. 3 on its list of highest-earning dead celebrities, with an income of $27 million.

    A new MAC Cosmetics limited-edition Monroe makeup line will appear in October, and the estate is also working on deals with fashion giants Dior and Dolce & Gabbana.

    A Monroe-themed cafe is set for Toronto, and Marilyn spas will debut next year.

    Marilyn Monroe died of a fatal drug overdose in August 1962 at the age of 36. Had she lived, Hollywood's most enduring sex symbol would be turning 75 years old on June 1, 2001. For many people, it is difficult to think of the golden sex goddess in old age since her persona is so dependent on youthful sensuality. Yet, others feel compelled to imagine what the woman born Norma Jeane Baker would have been like if her life had not ended so abruptly. She is shown in this file photo from the early 1950s.

    Her endless appeal lies in her style and her story: A California kid who escaped a horrific childhood to become one of Hollywood’s most incandescent stars.

    “She completely embodies the American Dream,” said Woodhouse. “She came from nothing, and did what she wanted to do. She wasn’t just some vapid starlet. She knew what she wanted.”

    She’s a publishers’ dream, too: More than 200 hardcover Monroe books are available via Amazon.com, with three new additions in the weeks leading up to the anniversary.

    “She’s more relevant than ever,” said Woodhouse. “That’s what Marilyn wanted, to live on forever.”

    Yet it was her death, still the subject of constant speculation, that helped catapult Monroe into the stratosphere of stars.

    “The controversy around Marilyn’s death kind of adds to it,” said Woodhouse. “It’s a tragic story, but it has some intrigue to it.”

    After Monroe died, ex-husband DiMaggio flew south from his San Francisco home to handle the funeral arrangements.

    The former Yankees star blamed certain celebrity pals for contributing to her death — and barred them from the funeral, said DiMaggio biographer Marv Schneider.

    The group included Frank Sinatra, fellow Rat Packer Peter Lawford and his Kennedy wife, and columnist Walter Winchell.

    The still-smitten DiMaggio later had a stone bench with Monroe’s name inscribed installed by her final resting place.

    Hefner, oddly enough, never met Monroe — although his brother, an aspiring actor, shared a Manhattan acting class with the starlet.

    He did speak with her once on the phone, to discuss another Monroe pictorial about a month before her death.

    The photos were taken on the set of her famously unfinished movie, “Something’s Got to Give” — permanently shelved by her death.

    The photos appeared in Playboy a year later, and Hefner said the Monroe image still resonates with up-and-coming models at his mansion today. “Without question, they identify strongly with Marilyn — and for understandable reasons,” he said.

    The Playboy exec also revealed the Monroe centerfold was actually Plan B for his new publication back in 1953.

    “I actually had a couple of nudes shot in 3-D, and then I discovered how much it would cost to have the glasses bound in the magazine,” he said.

    “At the same moment, I found out about the Marilyn Monroe nude and went with that instead. And it was a very fortunate alternative.”
Marilyn Monroe still appealing to younger generations
  • A decade ago, when Jennifer Tritz attended high school, actress Angelina Jolie lit up the big screen, singer Mariah Carey delivered huge hits and Madonna still shined red hot.

    But when Tritz decided to dress as a celebrity for a dance, she picked someone who had been dead for decades — Marilyn Monroe.

    Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of Monroe's death. The blonde, breathy-voiced actress remains a Hollywood icon, but not just for people around during the height of her fame or years soon after.

    She pulls major fans from a crowd that learned about Monroe's era in history class — people in their 20s and 30s.

    Some became fans as teens because they identified with Monroe's insecurities. Others appreciate how Monroe embodied sensuality and sexiness with a curvy, natural-looking body. Some simply love her durable, high-octane celebrity earned by hard work — one the Kardashians and other instant celebrities will never match.

    Young people can find plenty of ways to connect with Monroe, who made more than two dozen films, married baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and died of a drug overdose in Los Angeles at age 36.

    They can watch the TV series “Smash” about a Broadway musical based on Monroe's life. They can catch the 2011 film “My Week With Marilyn,” which covers the real-life shooting schedule of a 1957 Monroe comedy.

    They can dial up “The Seven Year Itch” and other Monroe movies on Netflix. They can choose from dozens of books about her life, including new ones hitting the shelves.

    At stores and online, her image is on everything from T-shirts and posters to martini glasses and iPhone cases.

    Chuck Murphy, owner of a California company that licenses photos of Monroe, said young fans are keeping her image alive in part by scooping up items with her likeness.

    “The youth are the ones driving (it),” he said.

    Tritz, 28, first heard about Monroe when she was about 10. A cousin owned a calendar with photos of Monroe, and told the blond-haired Tritz she looked like the actress.

    Tritz was intrigued.

    She looked at the Monroe calendar. The actress was beautiful, glamorous — but who was she?

    “I was really curious,” she said.

    Tritz asked her parents about Monroe and they gave her library books about the actress. She began watching Monroe's films like “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “Bus Stop” and “Some Like It Hot.”

    Monroe's acting style impressed Tritz, who started performing on stage at age 10 and acts in local theater. She loved Monroe's comic timing and how she could also tackle drama.

    Tritz, who works for a nonprofit insurance association, said her Monroe fascination grew in junior high.

    She knew from books that Monroe felt misunderstood and insecure. Tritz, dealing with all the typical junior high drama, felt the same sometimes.

    “She had this fragility,” Tritz said.

    Lisa Crockett, a professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said many aspects of Monroe's life could appeal to young women, including her struggle for acceptance.

    “That is a real feeling among teens,” said Crockett, who specializes in adolescent development. “They really tend to see themselves as unique in some ways.”

    Crockett also said Monroe's curvy body type could appeal to young women frustrated by today's rail-thin fashion models and slim actresses on screen.

    Bailey Carlson of Omaha said Monroe's figure helped her accept her own body.

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    Carlson, 24, remembers as a teen spotting photos of Monroe, her full hips highlighted by form-fitting dresses. She thought Monroe's body looked more like her own than the slim figures of stars like Julia Roberts or Jennifer Aniston.

    Carlson bought posters and pictures of Monroe and hung them up in her bedroom. She'd buy a Monroe calendar every year.

    “I wanted to surround myself with (a woman) I looked like,” said Carlson, who works for a local insurance company and performs in community theater.

    Shannon Laux of Omaha also was drawn to Monroe in part because of her natural shape.

    “Her size was double-digit,” said Laux, 31, “But her appearance was amazing.”

    Adam Tyma, assistant professor of communication and culture at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, said Monroe's half-century of fame is another draw.

    In today's era, when TV reality shows like “Jersey Shore” grind out flimsy celebrities, someone like Monroe stands out, he said. Young people who read about Monroe realize she earned her lasting fame through film success, not just famous photos like the one of her wearing a billowing white dress.

    Even for young people, he said, there can be nostalgia for the Hollywood of Monroe's time.

    “A celebrity was someone you could look up to and want to become,” Tyma said.

    Leanne Carlson, 32, has admired Monroe since she was 10 or 11.

    She's a physician assistant who also acts and has performed as a Monroe impersonator. This fall she will star in the Omaha Community Playhouse production of “Legally Blonde.”

    Her mother exposed her to Monroe and the two watched her films and talked about her life.

    Monroe's success, despite growing up fatherless, living in orphanages and facing other struggles. has always impressed Carlson.

    “She [Marilyn Monroe] had a ton of tenacity,” she said. “She is the ultimate female icon.”
Why Young Women Love Marilyn

Marilyn: Still formidable after 50 years

Our love affair with Marilyn Monroe
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Long forgotten, whoo wee a whopping 37 years, piece of sh** that still sounds good, I remember hearing this in the 80's on the radio, long before C*ntdonna. She didn't peroxide her hair blond like the rest use too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THaZrNT0-mg&feature=related

Kate Bush :band:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXhC7CkWWa8&feature=related
Marilyn Monroe last footage

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edited by Flea, only to censor a profanity with an asterisk
Edited by flea dip, Nov 7 2012, 01:24 PM.
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Marilyn Monroe wasn't perfect. Actually, no human being is. But her personality compared to Madonna's more narcissistic and arrogant one, is 1 quadrillion times better.
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Regarding the new Britney Spears single "Work B*tch" off her new album. (Work B*tch, Britney Spears song (audio only))

I think she started her solo pop music career in the late 1990s, is that correct?

The Madonna fans used to crow all the time about how Madonna has been in the music business for 20 years (it's now over 20), but the fact that Spears has been around for over ten years in pop music is nothing to sneeze at.

I have no idea if Spears will decide to keep recording for another 10 to 15 years, but the fact that she's been around over ten years is something.

She didn't fade away after one hit song or after a couple of albums. Ditto for Aguilera and Pink and a few other pop female singers.

I'm neither a Spears fan or a hater, I'm just making observations about her longevity in the public eye. She's still around cranking out albums, and the media is still taking an interest in her, and it's been over ten years now.
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Yes flea dip,

Britney Spears has been around since about October 1998, so that's 15 years!!

Madonna around 15 years into her career was about 1997, so she was recording her Ray of Fart album then.
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