The magnificent, towering, mostly despised Marilyn sculpture that has been waving its dress in the air over Pioneer Court in Chicago is being dismantled for a trip to California. Most people wait until they get here to get ripped apart.
The 26-ft. work, titled “Forever Marilyn,” was created by Seward Johnson, is now bound for Palm Springs.
The dress Marilyn wore in “The Seven Year Itch,” on which the sculpture is based, sold last June for $4.6 million to an unknown buyer.
It had been in the collection of Debbie Reynolds, who bought it when 20th Century Fox unloaded all of Marilyn’s wardrobe in 1971.
A severed head was found near the landmark Hollywood Sign yesterday… by the dog of a hiker, which was attracted to a plastic bag, out of which rolled the head.
Police report that the head might be that of an Armenian man, not believed to be a Kardashian.
Above, the Severed Head of Saint John the Baptist, as imagined by Auguste Rodin, in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Auguste Rodin (France, Paris, 1840 – 1917) Severed Head of Saint John the Baptist, circa 1887-1907
Sculpture, Marble, 8 x 15 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (20.32 x 40.01 x 34.29 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation in memory of B. Gerald Cantor (AC1998.139.1)
European Painting and Sculpture Department.
“Robert Wagner will have dueling appearances on CBS this week: As a handcuffed character on “NCIS” Tuesday and subject of Saturday night’s “48 Hours” segment on Natalie Wood’s death almost 30 years ago,” reported Reuters on Saturday.
L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca, friend of such celebrities as Mel Gibson (the Sheriff’s Dept. initially said Gibson was arrested in Malibu “without incident”), has accepted numerous donations from CBSChairman Les Moonves, seen above with second wife Julie Chen, host of “The Talk” on CBS.
Moonves has been a steady contributor to Baca’s campaigns, all within the legal limit.
Baca (seen above with Scientologist actress Sophia Milos on a Scientology float in 2004) was reelected in 2010, despite controversy over gifts and a “deputization” program that allowed celebrities to carry arms. The program was canceled after several incidents. He also released Paris Hilton early.
With there being no clear reason to reopen the case, and “no suspects,” one wonders if the whole thing was a publicity stunt to benefit CBS.
Nothing says “I’m a putz” quite like proving to the public that you’re a rage-o-holic by throwing furniture at a plate glass window while you’re on an image improvement tour. Even his publicist quit that bitch today.
Chris Brown, over-tatted girl beater, who dutifully picked up garbage on the side of the road as punishment for his pummeling of Rihanna, and reportedly took anger management classes (at the Mel Gibson Online School of Image Improvement), is still a rager. Anyone considering a date with homey should revisit Rihanna’s pix.
Yes, I’m all for forgiveness and redemption, but as RuPaul says, “Don’t fuck it up.”
As you can see in this NSFW photo of him, he’s a really big putz… of the week.
No, Pope Benny wasn’t arrested… but the Archdiocese of Philadelphia just suspended 21 Catholic priests over child sexual abuse allegations. That’s Benny arriving to the Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome for Ash Wednesday yesterday. A large protest was held in Philly yesterday.
In other church news… the Washington Post reports that “attorneys for hundreds of people who claim they were sexually molested by priests and religious brothers in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are going before a judge to argue that confidential files on the priests should be made public.”
And here’s the capper… “The release of the files has been in dispute since the archdiocese settled more than 550 cases for a record-breaking $660 million in 2007.”
I’d like to see Sarah Palin on FOX’s “Million Dollar Money Drop,” not as a contestant, but dropping down one of the chutes into the bowels of hell from which she sprang, also known as the FOX News Idea Workshop.
It’s not amazing that she painted herself as the victim in this tragic week, and in a way she is. Not of the media or “pundints” as she called them, but of her own vacuousness. She is our American Barbie; beauty queen, Governor, huntress, TV mom, author, made of plastic, nylon hair and with a squishable, empty head.
Inane provocateur, sputum of YouTube, news bite with a rifle, she is the illegitimate daughter spawned by our founding fathers who surely wring their hands in the beyond.
Her use of the term “blood libel” this week was certainly no accident, but carefully crafted for her by a team of advisors, who no doubt blame the “Jewish media” for the rush to blame Palin’s incendiary rhetoric for engendering a Tucson monster that would shoot the first Jewish Congresswoman from Arizona, murder six and injure dozens.
One who goes rogue and reloads does not understand the need to “refudiate” her own kind. Sarah Palin, Republican leader, virago of the tundra, Putz of the Week.
Here’s the Streamline Deco Dixie Drive-In, once famous for their French-fried shrimp, from 6:30 AM to 3 AM — “Delicious Food — Delightfully Served” in glamorous Tucson, Arizona circa 1940.
The site is now this empty lot at 1019 Stone Ave., next to the Best Western, 7 miles down the road “as the crow flies” from the Safeway at Ina and Oracle Roads where this weekend’s shooting occurred.
