Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/188
Perhaps The secret of Marilyn Monroe’s[1] success is that she has a just-after-fuckedmaking-love look instead of a ready-to-fuckedmaking-love look. Thus she gives the imagefeeling of sensual after-pleasure and accomplishment, rather than anticipation and uncertainty.
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- ↑ Mailer’s biography of Monroe (1926-62), Marilyn: A Biography, sold more copies than any of his other books, save The Naked and the Dead.