Mischanneling Marilyn

connecting.the.dots Feb. 21,

written by the former chairman

of the American Society of Magazine Editors, Robert Stein.

That is his headline also.

"Between them, Lindsay Lohan (21) and Bert Stern (79) have

inhabited planet Earth for a century, but all those years have not

produced an iota of the good judgment it would have taken for them

not to recreate "Marilyn Monroe's Last Sitting" for New York Magazine this week.

Grave-robbing is rife in the celebrity world,

but the desperation of a troubled young woman

and an aging once-talented photographer plumbs

new depths of exploitation.

Lohan has none of Marilyn's magic,

and Stern is parodying the artist he was 46 years ago.

My revulsion is not objective.

 As someone who spent a week in 1955 working with Marilyn

and the gifted Ed Feingersh, both of whom died in their thirties,

as he created classic photographs of her,

I am prejudiced in the extreme.

Marilyn was no Lindsay Lohan.".........  Robert Stein.

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Rash Manly                         22moon.com

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