![]() ![]() The last chapter contains updates on the latest bits of information that have become available after the original publication. Finally, the author's conclusions about what likely happened the night she died is the most probable of all the versions I've seen. Fascinating, disturbing, but I couldn't put it down. This was a very complicated woman who interacted with some of the most powerful men in the US, yet was either rediculously naieve or downright delusional. Compartmentalizing her life so that her closest associates had no idea what was really going on in her life, yet carelessly indiscreet. ![]() Working out constantly and careful with her diet, yet abusing prescription drugs. ![]() Desperate for children, yet having many abortions. Looking for love in all the wrong places, but not valuing it when she found it. Used badly by the Big Studio contract system, she later became one the first women to start her own production company and played contract negotiations cunningly. Now in Goddess, Anthony Summers goes behind the lies, the gossip, and the myths to write the ultimate book on Marilyn Monroe, shimmering screen star. It's so easy for us mere mortals to forget that great beauty can be a trap, but she was no easy victim either. This is a very well researched and balanced look into the life of a beautiful but deeply damaged woman. The most telling Marilyn quote is about being passed around like a piece of meat, and clearly that is how these 5 womanizing jerks thought of her. The first half is okay but the second half that gets into the complicated relationships between Marilyn and the Kennedy brothers, Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, and Sam Giancona of the mafia is really good. ![]()
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