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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It would have been a disaster.


2 posted on 04/14/2026 7:19:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wouldn’t say disaster, just very different. Capote may have actually been more receptive to Monroe as more faithful to the novella. But then it wouldn’t have become the greatest chick flick ever.


4 posted on 04/14/2026 7:34:39 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: BenLurkin

Dittoes.

I’m trying to be objective here, but I can’t see Marilyn as Holly.

It was bad enough having Mickey Rooney play a Japanese guy. And I think having Uncle Jed play her husband also did not work.


5 posted on 04/14/2026 7:51:54 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: BenLurkin

Marilyn was pretty damn good at all of the roles she was asked to do. She could have pulled it off just fine, IMO.
In fact, the novel was written for a woman quite like Marilyn.


9 posted on 04/14/2026 8:27:16 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: BenLurkin
It was a disaster. I tried to like it. I couldn't.
13 posted on 04/14/2026 10:48:30 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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