These are all of my poems. Combined from other publications into one book. Some modification for clarity purposes. It is all of my thoughts and moods of the day.
Marilyn Rabetz is a colored pencil painter and long time drawing instructor. She is a national known exhibiting artist whose work has been featured in American Artist several times and in other national magazines. She taught for four decades at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor Connecticut where she also served as Director of the Richmond Art Center and Associate Director of the Mercy Gallery. Rabetz's distictive method for drawing called Object Lessons, How to Draw Absolutely Anything, is available at Amazon.com.
This is a compilation of original poetry and song lyrics by Marilyn Gilbert Komechak. Ms. Komechak is an award-winning, published poet and songwriter. Michael Baldwin, President of the Fort Worth Poetry Society and winner of two state-level poetry manuscript contests, said of this book, "Are you missing the duende, the deep passion in poetry that is haunted by reminders of mortality? You will find it in abundance in these wonderful poems by Marilyn Komechak, but also her exuberant love of life and her uncanny evocation of sun-washed Southwest Texas, New Mexico, and even more exotic imaginary venues. There is something to astonish in almost every poem: tear-catchers from the Civil War, ancient Indian petroglyphs, Russian holy icons on barn steps, meditations on pentimenti. Each poem is extraordinary in extraordinary ways. Then come the song lyrics. Willie and Waylon need not apply. These are story songs of sly insouciance amid deceptively simple tales. I've loved and been nourished by Marilyn's writing for many years; I think you will too if you are sufficiently adventurous."Marilyn Gilbert Komechak is a licensed psychologist who has served as a consultant to schools, businesses, and corporations. While maintaining a private practice, she wrote numerous articles and a book, Getting Yourself Together. She continued writing after she retired and has now included an award-winning children's book, Paisano Pete: Snake-killer Bird, a children's historical narrative about Deborah Sampson, a true hero of the American Revolutionary War, entitled The Girl Who Went to War; and she collaborated with her talented artist daughter, Kim Komechak, on an illustrated collection of poetry and paintings, titled Painted Poems: Interior Scapes. Now, she offers this beautiful collection of poetry and song lyrics which take the reader on a moonlit waltz through a world filled with laughter, tears, song, and wisdom. Come glide along the Pecos, find yourself in the reflection of a painting or dusty petroglyph, or learn Sacajawea's nickname.
It all started in the hot summer of 1960, when Marilyn Monroe walked off the set of The Misfits and began to hear a haunting song in her head, "Goodbye Norma Jean" ...
"What made Norma Jean special was the quality she discovered when, bored with being a teenage bride with a husband in the Merchant Marine during World War II, she took her first and most enduring lover-the camera." So posits author Ted Schwarz in the first comprehensive look at the life of Marilyn Monroe to appear in years, a biography that benefits from interviews with many of the actress's friends and acquaintances who have remained silent until now. Putting together the pieces of Marilyn's final days, spent in the company of Peter Lawford and his brother-in-law Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Schwarz also speculates on the causes of her death, which he describes as a "Hollywood version of natural causes." An unwanted child who had been passed around among her mother, her mother's friends, foster homes, and orphanages, the long record of rejection prompted Marilyn to lie about her childhood in her autobiography and become pathologically insecure in her relationships with men. Married five times, there was often no line of distinction as she moved from one affair to another: as Schwarz notes almost matter-of-factly, for example, Marilyn celebrated her engagement to baseball great Joe DiMaggio by going to bed with film director Elia Kazan. Upon returning from her honeymoon with DiMaggio, she immediately announced to friends her intention to marry playwright Arthur Miller-much to the surprise of Miller and his wife. "Still," Schwarz writes, "it was only to the camera that she did not look ahead to the next lover…all it asked of her was to allow it to transform Norma Jean Mortenson Dougherty…into a movie star and one of the most desired women in the world."
I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me --Marilyn Monroe Nearly sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an icon whom everyone loves but no one really knows. The conversations gathered here--spanning her emergence on the Hollywood scene to just days before her death at age 36--show Monroe at her sharpest and most insightful on the thorny topics of ambition, fame, femininity, desire, and more. Together with an introduction by Sady Doyle, these pieces reveal yet another Marilyn: not the tragic heroine she's become in the popular imagination, but a righteously and justifiably angry figure breaking free of the limitations the world forced on her.
Kristin Arroyo is a former Marine who served in Iraq. In the personal effects of her late grandfather - a once famous photographer - she discovers several unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe. With the help of a friend, she decides to put on an exhibition to honor her grandfather; unfortunately, nothing goes as planned, as a mysterious organization suddenly starts pursuing her, trying to kill her. Kristin comes to realize that her fate is mysteriously tied to the photographs of Marilyn and, if she is to save her life, she must reconstruct the last days of the Hollywood star and solve the mystery surrounding her death - but did Marilyn really die on August 5, 1962? Philippe Ward, a native of Bordeaux, France, is the author of two horror novels, Artahe and The Song of Monts gur (written with Sylvie miller), rooted in the folklore of Southern France, both published by Black Coat Press. Marilyn in Manhattan is his seventeenth novel.
In American popular culture, Marilyn Monroe(1926-1962) has evolved in stature from movie superstar to American icon. Monroe's own understanding of her place in the American imagination and her effort to perfect her talent as an actress are explored with great sensitivity in Carl Rollyson's engaging narrative. He shows how movies became crucial events in the shaping of Monroe's identity. He regards her enduring gifts as a creative artist, discussing how her smaller roles in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve established the context for her career, while in-depth chapters on her more important roles in Bus Stop, Some Like It Hot, and The Misfits provide the centerpiece of his examination of her life and career. Through extensive interviews with many of Monroe's colleagues, close friends, and other biographers, and a careful rethinking of the literature written about her, Rollyson is able to describe her use of Method acting and her studies with Michael Chekhov and Lee Strasberg, head of the Actors' Studio in New York. The author also analyzes several of Monroe's own drawings, diary notes, and letters that have recently become available. With over thirty black and white photographs (some published for the first time), a new foreword, and a new afterword, this volume brings Rollyson's 1986 book up to date. From this comprehensive, yet critically measured wealth of material, Rollyson offers a distinctive and insightful portrait of Marilyn Monroe, highlighted by new perspectives that depict the central importance of acting to the authentic aspects of her being.
This book of quotes explores the many sides of the one-and-only Marilyn Monroe. In her time, she was perceived as a victim, a vixen, a valentine, and a Venus. At once a sex symbol and enormously talented entertainer, she was praised, criticized, and adored during her lifetime. After her tragic and untimely death she became the most famous female face of the twentieth century, and her legacy continues to thrive through today.
