Playbill
May, 1979
When most of us think of Marilyn Monroe, the first images are of the public Marilyn, the movie queen and sex goddess. Then the less romantic images come to challenge our idolatry and, perhaps, to make us uncomfortable. So, devout MMophiles, beware: The Private Life of Marilyn Monroe, an excerpt from Lena Pepitone and William Stadiem's book Marilyn Monroe Confidential (published this month by Simon & Schuster), is another heavy entry in the ledger of unromantic Monroe images. Pepitone was Marilyn...
