Marilyn segundo Marilyn

"Last Talk With a Lonely Girl: Marilyn Monroe by Richard Meryman" trata-se de uma entrevista publicada pela primeira vez na revista "Life" a 17 de Agosto de 1962 , 12 dias depois da morte da actriz. É agora reproduzida, numa versão editada, pelo "The Guardian".

'When you're famous you run into human nature in a raw kind of way'
This is an edited version of Last Talk With a Lonely Girl: Marilyn Monroe by Richard Meryman, first published in Life magazine, August 17 1962
Friday September 14, 2007
The Guardian

Ever since she was fired from Something's Got to Give, Marilyn Monroe has kept an almost disdainful silence. As far as her troubles with 20th Century Fox were concerned, she simply said she had been too sick to work - not wilfully tardy and truant as the producer charged. While 20th Century Fox and her lawyers were negotiating for her to resume work on the movie, Marilyn was thinking about broader aspects of her career - about the rewards and burdens of fame bestowed on her by fans who paid $200 million to see her films, about drives that impel her, and about echoes in her present life of her childhood in foster homes. She thought about these out loud in a rare and candid series of conversations with Life associate editor Richard Meryman. As a camera caught the warmth and gusto of her personality, Marilyn's words revealed her own private view of Marilyn Monroe ...

Para ler em The Guardian - Great Interviews of the 20th Century