When I was growing up, teenagers on the weekend would be on certain streetcorners selling maps to star’s homes. Yes, I lived amongst the myths. — Hildegarden’s Blog
An account in architecture and memory, Los Angeles artist Hildegarde Duane follows and records fourteen stations evoking memory cuts via buildings and the city, stitching the course of Marilyn Monroe.
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Orhan,
There is so much to say about Marilyn Monroe....where to begin.
When I was in high school there was a student movement to rename James Monroe HS to Marilyn Monroe HS.
Malvin Wald, my writing mentor, wrote the first documentary film about Monroe within weeks after she died. His brother Jerry Wald was Monroe's producer at Fox. Monroe's ghost still haunts the studio; in the center of the lot is a huge mural of Marilyn, white dress uplifted, from the Seven Year Itch.
Marilyn's grave in a Westwood cemetery, low key but not hidden, is within a hundred yards of one of the busiest traffic intersections in the country: Wilshire and Westwood.
I feel women see Monroe different then men. They see in her power, and tragedy. A friend of ours looked at it this way. The ultimate power a woman can posses is be able to simply drop her clothes and turn the most powerful man into a blathering idiot.
As a media manufactured deity, her succession of residences are documented here like historic or religious cult shrines. It is a very very odd phenomena.
eric chavkin
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