Marilyn Really Was Magic

Now that HBO has arrived at Great Plotnik World HQ, we never watch it. But STRZ has lots of movies to choose from. Who ever heard of STRZ?

Last night we saw a half hour of Marilyn Monroe and Lawrence Olivier in "The Princess and the Showgirl" -- is that the title?

Anyone who saw that recent movie about Marilyn knows the real or close-to-real version of making this movie in the late 1950s. Marilyn Monroe just jumps off the screen, even in a ridiculous film where everyone is using fake accents so bad you have no idea where they're supposed to be from.

The truth is she was a great, natural comedienne, forget all the glamor stuff. What a pity.

Think how we've changed in fifty years. You couldn't make a movie like this now. It'd either be Borat or Judy Dench. Satire is required to smash you over the head now.

Of course, without Marilyn Monroe this movie would be unwatchable. It still is, really, and yet...there she is.