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Abiding fascination
Marilyn Monroe continues to fascinate us. Earlier this year, Andy Warhol’s silk-screen portrait, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, sold for $195m, the highest price ever paid for a work of 20th-century art. This spectacular auction followed on shortly from Kim Kardashian being widely criticised for attending the Met Gala wearing the dress Monroe wore when serenading John F Kennedy on his birthday.
In a year of such Marilyn-related news stories, a new biopic of the star might not seem such a big deal, but the latest offering from Australian director Andrew Dominik may yet prove otherwise. His based on Joyce Carol Oates’s bestselling
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