Attention starlets: Please stop channeling Marilyn Monroe

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:30:00 +0000

Just in case you thought the news that occasional morgue worker, temporary L.A. jail resident, and all-around train wreck Lindsay Lohan posing for Playboy wasn't agonizingly predictable enough, the magazine has announced that the photos will be a "classic tribute inspired by the original Tom Kelley nude pictorial of Marilyn Monroe." Oh, please, make it stop.

Of all the dead idols that we keep digging up, Marilyn Monroe crushes all competition. Sorry, Elvis. Sorry, James Dean. There's only so much to be done with sparkly jumpsuits and nice black pullovers. But Marilyn? She's almost inexhaustible. Note: almost.

Are short-haired women less attractive?

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:20:00 +0000

It seems impossible -- how could Marilyn Monroe be undesirable? Yet in a new interview with Elle, Michelle Williams, who plays the doomed blond bombshell in "My Week With Marilyn," admits that her real-life look has never won her too many fans. Speaking about her trademark short-cropped hair, Williams says that "I've really grown into it -- I feel like myself with short hair. And it's been a really long time since I had long hair, five years." But Williams admits that her daughter, Matilda, "would love ... her mum to grow out the cropped hair, though that's unlikely to happen any time soon." The only people who like it, she says, are gay men and my girlfriends. "Straight men across the board are not into this hair!" Well, one man was -- in a reference to her ex-fiance, Heath Ledger, who died in 2008, she says, "I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it."

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Attention starlets: Please stop channeling Marilyn Monroe

Are short-haired women less attractive?