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To: sultan88
"Top 10 Classic Sex Symbols"

"#1. Marilyn Monroe
Abandoned as a child, the victim of abuse in foster homes, Norma Jean Mortensen rose from poverty to become the single most celebrated movie star of all-time. She started out as a swimsuit model and caught the eye of tycoon Howard Hughes. She had bit parts in small movies before taking the acting lessons that eventually drove her forward. Being the first Playboy centerfold in 1953, she later starred in the comedy classics Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch and a series of successful films. Adored by millions worldwide, her second marriage to baseball great Joe DiMaggio played like a fairytale but dark clouds were on the horizon. She began to drink and take pills and her screen work got scarce. She was involved with both President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, and was named Number One Sex Star of the 20th Century in 1999 by Playboy. Her alleged suicide merely added to her mystique and legend."

"Best Quotes:
"The trouble with censors is they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any."
"A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it [be] sex than some other things we've got symbols of."

FReegards...MUD

70 posted on 02/11/2003 6:05:02 AM PST by Mudboy Slim (Rudy Guiliani fer Attorney General...NOW!!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
"...Her alleged suicide..."

Yes, it is still unresolved as far as I am concerned. Marilyn Monroe may have had a lot of *stuff* on the Kennedys.

137 posted on 02/11/2003 2:28:42 PM PST by sultan88 (Hadleyville is still a peaceful town.)
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