Book Review Author: Lois Banner Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2012 Pages: 515 Price: Rs499 “A lot of people like to think of me as innocent, so that’s the way I behave to them. If they saw the demon in me, they would hate me… I’m more than one person, and I act differently each time. Most of the time I’m not the person I’d like to be – certainly not a dumb blonde like they say I am; a sex freak with big boobs.” Marilyn Monroe said this to British photographer Jack Cardiff in 1961, one year before she met her tragic end. Marilyn lived a life she did not enjoy. Yet that life was her choice. Why did she choose that life if she didn’t want it? Was it a psychological compulsion or helplessness or neurosis...? Why did she allow so many men to walk through her life as if her life were a public park? Did the Kennedy brothers who used her, as they did many other women, to sate their lust have anything to do with her untime...
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