The Cut - Let Marilyn Monroe Rest

It seems to me that the time has finally come for all of us to leave Marilyn Monroe alone. The Hollywood legend died 60 years ago and has been resurrected so much in the past year that, well, it’s just enough already.

In May, Christie’s sold Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn portrait of the actress for a staggering $195 million, making it the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever to sell at auction. This summer, Madame Tussauds installed a wax sculpture of the film legend at the Lexington Hotel, a place Marilyn and her second husband, Joe DiMaggio, once called home. Of course, there’s the Kim Kardashian of it all: As the story goes, the reality star shed 16 pounds in three weeks to slip into Monroe’s iconic nude illusion dress for an infamous three-minute shuffle up the Met Gala steps. Even the recent Barbiecore fad can’t help but evoke the iconic blonde being carried down a flight of stairs while singing about her best friend, diamonds. And this week, Netflix will release Blonde, its long-awaited adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s 1999 fictional biography of Monroe, a film that features an NC-17 rating owing to its sexual content and stars Ana de Armas doing a Marilyn accent that took “nine months” to perfect yet has already managed to piss off the masses.

Nancy Davis was carrying a skull-less fetus but was forced to travel from Louisiana to New York to get an abortion. ​Switching to a ​renewable ​energy ​grid ​now ​could save us trillions of dollars over the coming decades. At least the U.S. is doing one thing right: the war on child poverty.​ ​Working out for 30 minutes a day “might not be enough” to counter the health issues created by prolonged sitting​. ​For those keeping track, since the queen’s passing, people have ​gotten mad at ​M​eghan for holding flowers, having a wrinkle in her dress, and now holding her husband’s hand. Take a look at some of the finalists in the 2022 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest.​ And if you want even more nature, this map can tell you where and when to see the foliage this season.

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