Crusader AXE is old enough to remember pre-teen longings associated with Marilyn Monroe. She kind of personified something, not unlike giant tail-fins on the '57 Chevy. Unnecessarily added, and somewhat vacuous, but kinda bitchin'...Now, she was a pathetic actress, and an absolutely lousy singer and with the exception of Some Like It Hot, I have problems figuring out the endless attraction today. She had a rotten life, fucked some interesting people and died sadly and alone of a drug overdose. Kind of overstuffed, kind of harmless, and the CIA may or may not -- probably not -- had something to do with the barbituates and wine. I can't see why aging queens see her as some kind of icon; while Norman Mailer's fascination sort of makes sense because they both hit the big time at the same time and he didn't get to sleep with her, what the hell was Elton John prattling about? Granted, his "goodbye England's Rose" was crappier as well as self-plagarism, but still...
So, when Paris Hilton did the happy birthday imitation, I figured OK! (like the magazine!!), this has now reached a new epitome of tackiness. However, the news that Lindsay Lohan was doing a photo spread imitating her last photo shoot for New York Magazine was kind of irritatingly interesting. Achieving new nadirs seems to be a preoccupation with our culture. Lindsay has made some really crappy movies and is hell bent on self-destruction. Normally, rehab centers oppose the inmates -- I mean patients -- bonding and having sex and drinks and all. Like Paris and Britney and all the rest, she really hasn't ever done anything except crap. Her acting is less interesting than Marilyn's and she doesn't seem to have fucked anyone like Arthur Miller, JFK or DiMaggio. Hell, she's got less going for her than Jessica Simpson in the cerebellum department. As well as in the voluptuousness department.
So, I looked at the spread. Marilyn didn't, so far as I remember, have a goddamn butterfly on her panty-line. Frankly, while Marilyn was about yearning, glamour and fantasy, Lindsay is about convenience stores and sluts doing a second shot at junior year. The word SKANK seems very appropriate.
Just to be clear, New York Magazine has a lot of interesting stuff. Think of it as the New Yorker light, only with music. The web site has a lot more than this bimbo. Like the link to Dead Flowers--Anglophiles Anonymous where I found this...
Lindsay is about convenience stores and sluts doing a second shot at junior year. The word SKANK seems very appropriate.
this isn't to take anything away from this take, cause i feel the exact same way about it all (though i can't say i've given it more than 30 seconds of thought); but i wonder--simply because i wasn't around for her life and have never studied her impact on american culture in a larger sense--if this is how marilyn herself was viewed by her peers back in the day... and if it was only the surgical hand of dr. time, m.d., that glossed over her life and put her in the context we find her in today.
just wondering out loud, really...
Posted by: JasonC | 28 February 2008 at 09:34 PM
Her nude poses were shocking back then and sex was forbidden. She was unattainable -- fragile beauty and lust combined with a sad and unfulfilled search for love. The current crop of celebratantehantrusettes of which Lohan is one exemplar are really about getting a blowjob behind the In and Out Burger...
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