Marilyn never finished high school but she is devoted to the intellectual life. She sprinkles her conversation with lines from Thomas Wolfe and Browning, with the same candid simplicity she uses in describing her dumbbell exercises: “I’m fighting gravity. If you don’t fight gravity, you sag.” Her candor sometimes disconcerts interviewers. “Once this fellow says, ‘Marilyn, what do you wear to bed?’ So I said I only wear Chanel No. 5 and he groans, ‘Oh no, I can’t use that.’”
“Marilyn Monroe: The Talk of Hollywood” Life Magazine (April 7, 1952)
Cast photo from “The Witches Of Eastwick”
You wouldn’t even look at a clock unless hours were lines of coke, dials looked like the signs of gay bars, or time itself was a fair hustler in black leather. There is no reason to know the time. We are timeless.