This is one of my favorite images of Marilyn Monroe: lolling in a doorframe, awash in green, and decked out in a fur, a hopeful little strawboat hat, and a dash of lipstick. I imagine her seducing the precipice of spring as only she could. This time of year, as snow falls outside my window for the eighth time in a month, I cling to such glamour. It’s the sort only someone with Marilyn’s infectious capacity for joy and appreciation could muster.
I went to town today in this HuffPost Live video chat about age-related gender wage gaps for actresses. We were responding to a recent study reporting that female actors lose their Hollywood earning power at age 34 while male actors experience their pay decline at age 52. Not only did I get to retell Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s great Golden Globes joke—Meryl Streep was brilliant in “August: Osage County,” proving there are still great roles in Hollywood for Meryl Streeps over 60— but we also got saucy at the expense of Ole Dead Eyes, Kristen Stewart. Bonus: doing these video sessions from home means I never have to change out of my sweatpants.
Some grinches love to hate the Oscars but I like them, I really like them. The hoopla! The bathos! The speeches! The gowns! This year I gabbed about those golden boys on Cape Cod’s WOMR, dished on Page Six, and made my predictions on our Talking Pictures Oscar show. I even interviewed veteran Oscar whisperer Anne Thompson for Word and Film. And while we’re in Self-Promotionville, I also wrote about novelists turned screenwriters and 2013 movies turned books for that site. Put on your highest heels and check it all out.
This is one of my favorite images of Marilyn Monroe: lolling in a doorframe, awash in green, and decked out in a fur, a hopeful little strawboat hat, and a dash of lipstick. I imagine her seducing the precipice of spring as only she could. This time of year, as snow falls outside my window for the eighth time in a month, I cling to such glamour. It’s the sort only someone with Marilyn’s infectious capacity for joy and appreciation could muster.