Marilyn Monroe statue returns to Palm Springs, to cheers and jeers

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By Norma Galeana (Reuters) – Marilyn Monroe is back in Palm Springs, California, in a big way – but not everyone is thrilled. A 26-ft (7.9-m) tall statue of the Hollywood icon in her famous billowing white dress was unveiled in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum, facing Palm Canyon Drive, the city’s main tourist strip, on Sunday. The artwork, sculpted by John Seward Johnson II in 2011, was inspired by a scene from the film, “The Seven Year Itch.” It first came to Palm Springs in 2012 as a rental for 26 months and moved to New Jersey in 2014, said Aftab Dada, chairman of P.S. Resorts, a local…

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  1. Nora E Boyle

    I’m a huge supporter of Women’s Rights, because, I’m a woman, and
    I support this iconic statue of Marilyn who needs to be seen and heard. She’s been dead for ?? many years and we all should know her story by now. She joined the League of Necessary Women in Hollywood and became a huge accidental movie star and screen siren. She was a foster child and terribly abused. She had many lovers because she chose to be sexually free and not shackled to the folkways of the time. She drank booze and took pills ad nauseum, and she died young, at 36. She did it her way and now lives in Sinatra Land.

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