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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at 70: Marilyn Monroe remains a dazzling star

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Marilyn MonroeHoward Hawks’ eye-catching comedy sees the actor at the height of her talents in a tale with more depth and intellect than even its director knew Last year’s Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde broke up its parade of visceral suffering heaped upon the woman born Norma Jeane Mortenson with an acknowledgement of one injustice not of the physically invasive persuasion. Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is betrayed by BlondeRead moreWe learn that while working on Howard Hawks’ superlative Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (which turns 70 years old this weekend), she received a paltry rate of $500 a week, while her comparatively better-known co-45star Jane Russell raked in a sum-total fee in the amount of $200,000. Read More...

Joshua Bassett Calls Coming Out 'One of the Easiest and Most Liberating' Things He's Ever Done

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Joshua Bassett is comfortable in who he is and who he loves. The 20-year-old High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star opened up about his sexuality earlier this year and the decision wasn't a difficult one for him.  "Funnily enough, it was one of the easiest things I've ever done and one of the most liberating things I've ever done," Bassett says in a new interview for Attitude  magazine. "I wasn't planning on talking about it and then there was a point where it kind of got bigger than me and I knew I had to acknowledge it. Read More...