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Chicago bids goodbye to Marilyn Monroe… again
Seward Johnson’s controversial statue titled “Forever Marilyn” in Chicago is no more. There will be no more peeking under the skirt in her famous pose atop the subway grate from “The Seven Year Itch”, or posing for photos between those statuesque legs. The statue was dismantled last night and removed from Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, where it was displayed since July 2011.
Method to the Marilyn: Michelle Williams makes a splash as Monroe
When Michelle Williams got the role of Marilyn Monroe in the film My Week with Marilyn — a performance that is generating Oscar talk even before the movie has opened — the first thing she did was watch a ton of Monroe movies.“I started with The Prince and the Showgirl,” she says. “I started watching that movie while my daughter was in school, absorbing as much as I could, pausing it, trying to emulate what I had seen, made a lot of mistakes, completely clueless, and then, one day, things started to come together.”
Williams rigged up a costume of sorts — a tight dress, a push-up bra, high heels — then tied her knees together and tried to imitate Monroe’s famous walk, a slinky kind of wiggle that was almost a parody of sexuality. The way Monroe carried herself was far from what Williams was used to.
“As I talk to you now, I’m hunched over a desk, my shoulders are sloped, my posture is bad, my head is down,” Williams says, talking by phone. “None of that is Marilyn Monroe. So I had a long way to go from where I naturally live, from where my body, after 31 years, has learned to sort of settle.” (Photo: Alliance Films)
