“Are people really so desperate for something to watch between seasons of ‘Bridgerton’ that they’ll settle for lip-synched re-enactments of some interview my housekeeper gave in 1985?” “Are you joking?” she might sigh in a soft breath of resignation.
Watching Emma Cooper’s elegant but empty “ The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes” - which essentially functions as the long-delayed audiobook of a biography called “Goddess” that Anthony Summers wrote about the star more than 30 years ago - I couldn’t help but imagine that even Hollywood’s most famous pin-up would be surprised to see her image stretched this thin.
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What Monroe may not have been able to anticipate is how that obsession would eventually outlast the mediums that had defined it - that not even the demise of cheap tabloids or the movies themselves would be enough to let her rest in peace.