By Bergotte Published June 1, 2026 — on the occasion of her hundredth birthday Marilyn Monroe was born one hundred years ago today, and she has never stopped being alive. Not alive in the way that the famous dead are alive — as a cultural reference, as a poster on a wall, as a costumeContinue reading “Our Girl Marilyn at 100”
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Happy 80th Birthday To This Legend
John Waters at 80: The Last Great American Trash Intellectual By Bergotte For more than half a century, John Waters has made an art of what polite culture tries to throw away: vulgarity, deviance, low glamour, bad taste, and the people condemned for possessing any of them. At 80, he looks less like a relicContinue reading “Happy 80th Birthday To This Legend”
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