[quote]She was a junkie, but a beautiful glamorous one at that, all the Hollywood tarts worship her and her troubled lifestyle and try and emulate it.
That's some creative writing you've got there, R16.
Not quite. You make her sound like she was snorting coke and injecting heroin. She was not a user of illegal drugs (except for that grainy video where she was supposedly smoking pot). She was addicted to prescription pills various doctors gave her for endometriosis and chronic insomnia, as well as pills to offset the side effects of the first group of pills. She developed a tolerance , increased her dosage, and often mixed the pills with champagne.
Doctors in the '50s and '60s prescribed pills like candy for celebs and underestimated the side effects. They gave "vitamin" shots to JFK and Jackie. They didn't understand as they do now that legal drugs could be just as addictive as illegal ones. And some were in denial, like many of today's greedy doctors, who contributed to our current opioid epidemic.
Also, she's emulated by people from all walks of life, not just Hollywood tarts. These tarts copy her not necessarily because they are also self-destructive, but likely because they want the kind of long-lasting fame she has. Lindsay, Paris, and Anna Nicole, hitching their wagons to get attention by association. Marilyn was already copied while she was alive, when the public didn't know about her demons. Starlets like Jayne Mansfield, Diana Dors, Mamie Van Doren, and Sheree North were groomed by the studios to be new "Marilyns".
Again, it's trying to ride the coattails of someone truly iconic to get some reflected glory. That's why it wasn't just wannabes but successful celebs like Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Nicole Kidman, Kate Moss, Scarlett Johansson, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Kylie Minogue, Kim Karcrashian (ugh), who copied her in photos, ads, and music videos.
That maid fabricated a lot of shit to sell a book. Interesting that all those other MM biographies don't support Lena's claims.
