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Marilyn Monroe photos to auction
Famous Marilyn Monroe photographs, including her iconic, dress-lifting pose over a hot air vent, are due to be auctioned next week in New York.
Christie’s auctioneers describe the collection as the largest to come to market. Other works by celebrated photographers such as Helmut Newton will also be on the bloc at the auction December 16 and 17.
The Monroe images include a series shot by photographers such as Garry Winogrand as Monroe laughed and fought to keep her white dress under control while standing, legs spread, over a subway vent.
Also featured with a $10,000 to 15,000 estimate is Tom Kelley’s 1949 Monroe nude, which appeared in Playboy’s premier issue.
Most poignant, though, are photos revealing the original 20th century sex symbol’s transformation from pretty girl next door to hounded celebrity and eventual suicide.
A photo taken on Long Island near New York by Andre de Dienes in 1949, priced at 3,000 to 5,000 dollars, captures the fresh-faced enthusiasm of the aspiring model then still known as Norma Jeane Baker.
Richard Avedon’s 1957 portrait, estimated to sell at 25,000 to 35,000 dollars, shows a different Monroe. A black sequined dress sets off her glamorous sex appeal, but her face appears lost and vulnerable.
Philippe Garner, international head at Christie’s photography department, said this portrait illustrates “a person in a state of psychological confusion about who they are and what society expects her to be.”
Britney Spears’ boy is now okay
Britney Spears’ boy is now okay
Pop star Britney Spears’ 2-year-old son Jayden James was reported released yesterday from the Mississippi hospital where he had stayed overnight following an allergic reaction to something he ate. Spears and her two sons had been visiting her family home in Kentwood, La. when the toddler suffered an apparent seizure, Britain’s Daily Mail said.
Actor Sienna Miller has been awarded $65,000 (Cdn) in damages from two tabloid newspapers after they agreed an out of court settlement over claims they had breached her privacy.
Miller had sued the Sun and News of the World papers over a series of what her lawyer said were intrusive articles and photos published in June and July.
A British exam board is recalling a high school music test that included convicted child molester Gary Glitter’s song in its “suggested listening” section.
Country singer Merle Haggard, 71,recently diagnosed with lung cancer, had part of a lung removed and is recovering at home.
British band Coldplay was crowned the world’s top-selling act of 2008 at the World Music Awards (WMAs) in Monaco. Star staff and wire service.
Ursula Andress is the sexiest Bond girl
Ursula Andress has beaten out Halle Berry and Kim Basinger to become the sexiest Bond girl in an online poll conducted by moviefone.com.
The Swiss actress entranced audiences as Honey Ryder in James Bond’s 1962 debut, ‘Dr. No’, opposite Sean Connery.
Lifetime achievement award for Douglas
Actor Michael Douglas is to be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Film Institute, the prestigious organisation announced recently. The 64-year-old star of Traffic will not be honoured for his acting skills as much as his producer kudos and will follow in the footsteps of his father, Kirk, who received the same award in 1991.
“I am honoured and overwhelmed to be included in such a prestigious group of filmmakers. I am particularly moved to be following my father 18 years later,” Douglas told Variety. “Michael Douglas is the rightful heir to the throne of the royal family of American film,” said Howard Stringer, chair of the AFI board. “Though he is most beloved as one of the great leading men of the movies, Michael is also a most accomplished film producer and, ultimately, an artist whose films have been elevated in the pantheon of American film.”
Douglas won an Academy Award for acting in Wall Stree, and was a producer of the multiple Oscar-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975.
