Marilyn Monroe was just as messed up as these knuckleheads in the Enquirer today are. She was obstinate, drank too much, was smart and dumb at the same time.
But to show you what an icon she was, I remember walking downstairs in August of 1962 seeing my dad, the same age as she, reading the front page of the paper. I dont' remember that w/McArthur, or Ike. Gary Cooper, yes. She was mega, for whatever reason. She is the fifties.
And you know, she'll always be 36.