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  Marilyn Monroe unplugged
   By: Khalid A-H Ansari
   August 19, 2005
Vancouver, Canada: The tempestuous life and times of Marilyn Monroe, the quintessential sex goddess, who died 62 years and 14 days ago — to the day — have been shrouded in mystery.

Her sexual encounters with president John F Kennedy, her failed marriages to playwright Arthur Miller and baseball superstar Joe di Maggio, her sexual encounter with Joan Crawford, relationships with Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Olivier, her yearning to be taken seriously as an actress and, most of all, the curious circumstances surrounding her tragic death have invested her persona with an aura of mystique that refuses to die with the passage of time.

New light has been shed on the Oscar-winning actress’ state of mind shortly before her death — of acute barbiturate poisoning according to the original 1962 autopsy — following the publication of transcripts of tapes in the Los Angeles Times newspaper on her recent death anniversary.

Marilyn Monroe apparently made the tapes for her psychiatrist Dr Ralph Greenson, who professedly played them for former prosecutor John Miner, who attended Monroe’s autopsy and helped to investigate her death.

Eighty-six-year-old prosecutor Miner says he made “extensive” and “nearly verbatim” notes on the tapes after promising never to publicise their contents.

However, Miner broke his promise when Dr Greenson died and biographers of the legendary actress implicated the psychiatrist in her death.

In the tapes, Marilyn Monroe, who played the stereotype dumb blonde as no other, says she won an Oscar for faking orgasms, that she enjoyed enemas and pledged to throw all her pills in the toilet.

Monroe is believed to have had an affair with President John F Kennedy at the time of the recording, a rumour said to have been fuelled by her famous steamy rendition of “Happy Birthday” in his honour.

The tapes show Monroe had “very specific plans for her future” and, therefore, could not have been suicidal.

Marilyn Monroe uses the technique of free association, used by James Joyce in his seminal book Ulysses, on the advice of her psychiatrist, causing the actress to warn: “You will hear a lot of bad language.”

Extracts of Monroe’s thoughts on Kennedy and Clark Gable have already been published. However, her feelings for her ex-husbands, her friendship with Frank Sinatra and suspicions about Eunice Murray, the housekeeper, who discovered her naked body, have been revealed for the first time.

Marilyn Monroe’s candid confessions from the couch shed light on her labyrinthine inner self. Excerpts are being reproduced to enable a better understanding of the misunderstood tragic sex icon. Readers with prudish sensibilities are advised to switch off — post haste!

On Clark Gable

In the kissing scenes, I kissed him with real affection. I didn’t want to go to bed with him, but I wanted him to know how much I liked and appreciated him. He told me he had been a hunter for a long time, but he had decided not to kill animals. He said if he had children, he would teach them to hunt with a camera instead of a gun.

When I came back from a day off the set, he patted my a** and told me if I didn’t behave myself he would give me a good spanking.

I looked him in the eye and said, “Don’t tempt me”. He burst out laughing so loud he was tearing.

Because of his performance I have seen Gone With The Wind over and over again. He was perfect. All right, that was a long time ago. I must have been about 13. I have never seen a man who was as romantic as he was in that picture.

It was different when I got to know him. Then I wanted him to be my father. I wouldn’t care if he spanked me as long as he made up for it by hugging me and telling me I was daddy’s little girl and he loved me. Of course that’s fantasy.

On orgasms

What I told you when I first became your patient is true. I had never had an orgasm. I well remember you said an orgasm happens in the mind, not the genitals.

You said there was an obstacle in my mind that prevented me from having an orgasm; that it was something that happened early in my life about which I felt so guilty that I did not deserve to have the greatest pleasure there is; that it had something to do with something sexual that was very wrong, but my pleasure from getting pleasure from it caused my guilt.

That it was buried in my subconscious. Through analysis we would bring it to my conscious mind where we could get to the guilt and free me to be orgasmic.

Well, we sure worked it and it got nowhere. I’d go home and cry and vomit from the frustration. Then you said for the orgasm problem we would try a different approach.

That you would tell me how to stimulate myself, that when I did exactly what you told me to do I would have an orgasm and that after I did it to myself and felt what it was, I would have orgasms with lovers.

What a difference a word makes. You said I would, not I could.

Bless you doctor. What you say is gospel to me. By now I’ve had lots of orgasms. Not only one, but two and three with a man who takes his time.

I never cried as hard as I did after my first orgasm. It was because of the years I had never had an orgasm. What wasted years. How can I describe to you, a man, what an orgasm feels like to a woman. I’ll try.

Think of a light fixture with a rheostat control. As you slowly turn it on, the bulb begins to get bright, and then brighter and brighter and finally in a blinding flash is fully lit. As you turn it off it gradually becomes dimmer and at last goes out.

Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave Oscars for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.

On Joan Crawford

Oh yes, Crawford. We went to Joan’s bedroom. Crawford had a gigantic orgasm and shrieked like a maniac.

Next time I met Crawford she wanted another round. I told her straight I didn’t much enjoy doing it with a woman. After I turned her down she became spiteful.

An English poet best describes it, “Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned: Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

Most people credit that to Shakespeare. William Congreve is the author. That’s me. Marilyn Monroe, the classical scholar.

About enemas

But doctor. I don’t understand this big taboo about enemas. Most of the actresses I know use them, even some who won’t admit it. Mae West told me she is given an enema every day and she has at least one orgasm a day. Mae says her enemas and orgasms will keep her young until she is 100.

Peter Crawford says the Queen and noblemen of the court of Louis XIV were give frequent enemas by special servants called apothecaries. The purpose was to give them peaches and cream complexions. Something about intestinal toxins getting into your blood. So there you are. Those ladies were doing the intelligent thing.

Yes. I enjoy enemas, so what!

On growing old

I stood naked in front of my full-length mirror for a long time yesterday. I was all made up with my hair done. What did I see? My breasts are beginning to sag a bit. My waist isn’t bad. My ass is what it should be, the best there is. Legs, knees and ankles still shapely. And my feet are not too big. Ok, Marilyn, you have it all there. It is decision time.

On the Kennedys

Marilyn Monroe is a soldier. Her commander in chief is the greatest and most powerful man in the world. The first duty of a soldier is to obey her commander in chief.

He says, “Do this”, you do this. He says, “Do that”. You do that.

This man is going to change our country. No I am not talking Utopia — that’s illusion, but he will transform America today like FDR (F D Roosevelt) did in the 30s.

And he’ll do for the world what he’ll do for America — transform it for the better. I tell you doctor, when he has finished his achievements he will take his place with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and FDR as one of our greatest presidents. As long as I have memory, I have John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

I’m glad he has Bobby. It's like the navy. The president is the captain and Bobby is his executive officer.

But Bobby, doctor, what should I do about Bobby? As you see there is no room in my life for him. I guess I don’t have the courage to face up to it and hurt him.

I think what’s happened with Bobby is that he has stopped having good sex with his wife for some time. Well when he starts having sex with the body all men want, his Catholic morality has to find a way to justify cheating his wife. So love becomes his excuse. And if you love enough, you can’t help it and you can’t be blamed.

All right, doctor, that’s Marilyn Monroe’s analysis of Bobby’s love for me.”
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