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Title: Marilyn Monroe Confidential by William Stadiem, Lena Pepitone ISBN: 0-671-83038-4 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: March, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: With Friends Like This....
Comment: The authors of this book are pigs. I just read this trashy book, published and quickly, justly forgotten, in 1980. I picked it up in a thrift shop for 50 cents, which was overpayment. Lena Pepitone was apparently not only a seemstress, but, a "trusted confidant" to Marilyn Monroe,... her "closest friend" as the co-authors lie. If this were true, Marilyn ill-placed her confidence in this "friend" who decided to dispense M.M.'s supposed most personal secrets. Even if her ramblings were true, do we really need to know that Marilyn passed gas, just like everyone else who has inhabited the planet? Or that she ate like Henry The Eighth, and wiped her dirty hands all over the sheets that poor Lena had to keep re-washing? The authors try and qualify every nasty, disloyal insult by following them with backhanded compliments. This was an obvious attempt to make a quick buck on someone who is not here to refute or ignore the slander. Lena Pepitone was someone on the farthest periphery of Marilyn Monroe's life. In all the 27 books I have about M.M., I have never seen the name of her "closest friend", Mrs. Pepitone, even mentioned. I HAVE seen her on a recent documentary about M.M., which also co-featured the even sleazier than Pepitone Jeanne Carmen, another supposed "best friend" of M.M.'s and hopeless Marilyn wanna-be, who claims to have been one of the last to talk to her on her last night (if all those who claimed to have talked to Marilyn that last night were telling the truth, she never would have had time to have taken the pills...)On this show, which was filmed about a year ago, Lena Pepitone's English was still so unintelligable, they had to translate it. This would lead me to believe that sleazy co-author W. Stadiem fabricated an entire book out of the incoherent ramblings, and the few memories she actually had, that he coaxed out of Pepitone. This book is an insult to anyone who loved Marilyn Monroe. With a "best friend" like Lena Pepitone, she would have done well to stick to diamonds. That being said, I shall tonight, in honor of Marilyn, roast some weenies... one of Marilyn's favorite foods, over the burning flames of this trashy tome, whilst watching our glorious girl in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." To the "authors" of this garbage, one long foul wind your way.......
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful star's desire to be average
Comment: This book, written by Marilyn Monroe's seamstress/maid, who spent almost every waking hour with the star during the last six years of her life, is a true find. To find out that Marilyn was a "bastard" child whose mother abandoned her was astonishing. It makes you wonder what the world of entertainment would be like had that mother aborted the child instead of given birth to Marilyn! "I was a mistake," Marilyn tells Lena. "My mother didn't want to have me." THAT's a push for pro-lifers if I ever heard one. (And I've always been pro-choice, although I could never personally have an abortion). Interesting in this book is that Marilyn had a son when she was 15, and no one in Hollywood or anywhere ever tried to track him down. Marilyn didn't want to, Lena says, because she felt he already had his life and she didn't want to "disrupt it." Marilyn had such a low opinion of herself. She didn't see herself as beautiful and voluptuous. She saw herself as fat. She struggled with weight throughout her life -- in fact, Lena found herself many times having to "let out" dresses so they would still fit Marilyn, who ate when she was depressed. Marilyn Monroe fits the perfect image of the compulsive overeater, who might have benefited from such programs as Overeaters Anonymous, if they were around at the time.
Marilyn constantly told Lena she was jealous of the poor maid's "normal" life, a good husband, beautiful young children. Marilyn admitted that she got to modeling and then acting the old-fashioned way -- prostitution. "Singers, actors, prostitutes. What's the difference? It's all rotten."
While Marilyn Monroe was making so much money just being beautiful and funny in movies, what she really wanted was to be taken seriously. She just could never get serious roles.
Her political attachments to people such as Frank Sinatra and the Kennedy boys (JFK and Bobbie) led some actors, such as Tony Curtis, to make the comment: "Kissing her was like kissing Hitler."
Lena tells all, in a very fast-reading way. One interesting note is that Marilyn liked to hang around her apartment absolutely nude. And when she went anywhere -- she never wore a bra and panties. This led to a hilarious remark by Marilyn about how much more shocking that famous photo of her in a movie standing over a vent that blows her white dress up and shows her panties would have been had she been dressed normally!
Marilyn's death was a true shocker to Lena, which makes other researchers' belief that Marilyn was murdered ring true. Lena had seen Marilyn take her plethora of sleeping pills with alcohol, etc. Lena had been there when Marilyn almost overdosed in a desperation to sleep. But at the time of her death, Marilyn was happy, not having to use medication to sleep and was going strong in her career. Anyone interested in Marilyn Monroe should find this book, as it's priceless!
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Title: My Story by Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht, Andrea Dworkin ISBN: 0815411022 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Marilyn Files by Robert F. Slatzer ISBN: 1561711470 Publisher: SPI Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: My Sister Marilyn: A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe by Bernice Baker Miracle, Mona Rae Miracle, Berniece Baker Miracle ISBN: 1565120701 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe by Donald H. Wolfe, D. W. Wolfe ISBN: 0688162886 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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