Marilyn Monroe

Never Nominated For An Oscar...

There are actors (like Peter O'Toole and Glenn Close) who've gotten nominated a whole lot of times and never won. Yet. But how about the ones who've never even been nominated? In the case of the dead ones, I'm pretty sure they never will be! Now that's gotta hurt. Here are some of the top omission ... More >>

Love, Marilyn

Eating Like Marilyn Monroe

Rebecca Harrington, who previously experimented with Liz Taylor's "controlled pig-out" sessions (alternating with dips and Dover sole), recently ate like Marilyn Monroe for 10 days.

CONCRETE BLONDE

We just can't quit Marilyn

Michelle Williams' Offbeat New Boyfriend

They were all cuddly and romantic at the Tribeca Film Festival party for his The Five-Year Engagement. And then they got all publicly snuggly again at the festival's bash for her Take This Waltz.

Keith Olbermann And I Dish Half-Naked Republicans!

Vanity Fair has posted a hilarious mock calendar of various Repuglicans in various states of undress. (At least I think they're fake photos. The Repugs' real nudie spreads are no doubt buried somewhere deep inside their cell phones.)

Some Like It Lukewarm: Marilyn Takes the Sex Out of Sex Symbol

Katie Holmes And Michelle Williams Need To Reunite: I Have The Project

After all, Katie played swellegant first lady Jackie Kennedy in the TV miniseries The Kennedys this past year. And Michelle is currently portraying screen goddess Marilyn Monroe in the feature film My Week With Marilyn.

Lindsay Lohan's Doing Playboy: My Thoughts

​I'm glad the troubled pop tart has gotten a gig, especially since the pricetag--reportedly almost a million--could probably help her pay off some debts and buy a couple of bottles of spring water while she's at it. But I'm feeling that:

The Marilyn Monroe Movie And The Oscars: An Interesting Fact

​Michele Williams will probably get Oscar nominated for her performance as the needy, insecure, tortured, yet magical Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn, and that's fine.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

COMING INTO FOCUS

Last chance to catch Elliott Erwitt's famous photos

What's The Best Fashion Show In A Movie?

Diana Ross, 'Mahogany'​Cinematic fashion shows are so much fun because they're usually only about five minutes long. Which are the most radiant? Thanks to Christian Freedom for this blog idea.

Marilyn Monroe: So Much More Than a Tragedy

Some Like It Hot

Marilyn Monroe Dress Sells for $5.6 Million

​Marilyn Monroe's sexy subway dress, originally priced to auction at $2 million, has been sold to an anonymous bidder for $4.6 million (plus a $1 million commission), which means that your dream of wearing the original halter gown while standing above a subway grate to re-create Marilyn's famo ... More >>

You Could Help Bring the Marilyn Monroe Dress Back to NYC

As we've reported previously, ​the white halter dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch -- you know, the one in that iconic subway grate scene -- will soon be up for sale by an L.A. auction house. The dress, currently owned by Debbie Reynolds, is worth an estimated $1 to $2 million ... More >>

Buy Marilyn Monroe's "Subway Dress" For Only $2 Million

​Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress from The Seven Year Itch is on sale for the low, low price of $2 million. It's the halter dress she wears while standing over the subway grate, trying to keep the skirt down. Actress Debbie Reynolds, 79, who is Carrie Fisher's mother, is also a movie memorabili ... More >>

The Five Best Celebrity Memoirs

​ I've read every celebrity memoir ever written (except for Keith Richards') because I love the inside dish, the self-aggrandizment, the bitterness, and the gloating, not to mention the peek into what makes these artists actually tick as people and performers. Of course some are more compell ... More >>

More Details About Smash, The TV Series About Broadway

​ We know that Smash is an upcoming NBC series about the making of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe. Debra Messing and theater actor Christian Borle star as the composers, Theresa Rebeck is writing the series, Hairspray's Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman are the real composers, and some ... More >>

Japanese Chefs Shun Gotham Water; Yet Another Egg Recall

​After restaurants with a "C" grade from the Health Department were outed, a number of diners are shocked and now say they will stop frequenting them. [NY Post] Japanese chefs at the Culinary Institute of America's three-day forum on Japanese cuisines refused to use local water and instead co ... More >>

How Do You Like These Apple Ciders: Sampling Wölffer's Big Apple Wine & Farnum Hill's Extra-Dry Cider

abhijittembhekar/flickrDrink your apples.​It's always sad to see fruit stands at the farmers market become less and less diverse as the weather cools. Sure, New York apples are great, but they're just about the only tree fruit we're likely to see for the next six months. They'll even invade ou ... More >>

Gavin Rossdale Did It With Marilyn

​No, not Marilyn Monroe. Not even Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. I'm talking about Marilyn, the drag queen singer friend of Boy George who slinked around the '80s looking for various forms of applause. For years, Marilyn has said that she and the Bush singer were lovers for quite a wh ... More >>

Two Blondes Are Better Than One: On Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Eccentricities of a Blonde-Hair Girl

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

The Ramshackle Behind the Burly Q Entertains Utterly

FOOT FETISH

Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe had more than JFK in common

Levi Johnston and The History of Celebrity Flashing

​In semi-disrobing for the public's delectation, Levi Johnston joins a long list of luminous and daring celebrities whose careers took off when they took it off. CLICK HERE for my musings on sunfiltered.com about the history of public privates, from Marilyn Monroe to Paris Hilton and beyond, ... More >>

Lola

CHILL OUT

Cure your Independence Day hangover with the Film Society

Look at This "I'm a Fucking Hipster" Self-Hatred

These went up earlier this week in--where else--Williamsburg. They're from Head Hoods, a project on behalf of a dude that's taken shape in the form of faux-stenciling I CAN'T AFFORD TO

Why Can't Some People Ever Be On Time?

Marilyn Monroe was always late for everything, but as Billy Wilder once said, it was worth waiting for her. What's more, Marilyn had a deep-rooted psychological reason for her tardiness; having been discarded and treated badly as a child, she now wanted to punish mankind one person at a time.

THE REAL WORLD

A festival that favors grit over gloss

The Last Monster Franchise: Creature Feature: 50 Years of the Gill-Man

EEE! HARMONY

A discussion with a notorious filmmaker

Update on My Update of Lindsay Lohan's Update

My Glamtastic Week as the Village Voice Covergirl!

MICHAEL MUSTO as LINDSAY LOHAN as MARILYN MONROE in 'The ultimate re-vamping'

I Was Madonna for a Day and Almost Got Arrested!

Haute Couture Bearded Lady Andre J Makes It Big!

Rack Focus

Dove's Big Business

'The Seven Year Itch'

Remembering a Student Movement—Not to Mention 11 Girls

Secrets and Thighs

A history of celebrity sex tapes, real and fake, from Joan Crawford to Paris Hilton

Hello, Molly!

Showbiz Examined at the Jewish Museum

Big Deal

The State of Weight

Elective Collective

The plastic surgery industry launches a new magazine