Sixty years ago, the heroine of
Some Like It Hot disappeared
.
From Norma Jeane, the calendar pin-up to the icon painted by Andy Warhol, passing by the Hollywood star, her many facets have forever forged the image of Marilyn Monroe.
Tracking back.
We didn't want to see that.
Ninety-six years old.
That's how old Marilyn Monroe would have been if some evil god hadn't decided otherwise.
She flew away with her almost intact beauty, her unfulfilled wishes, her tattered hopes, her unfathomable childhood memories.
It's better like that.
The seventh art prefers the dead.
Can you imagine James Dean bald and paunchy, a walker having succeeded the Porsche 550 Spyder?
The legend is won in the sound of crumpled sheet metal on the road to Salinas or in the moist smell of a Californian room with crumpled sheets.
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