Playbill
January, 1997
In Anthropology, New Year's Eve is a liminal event—a threshold that separates the old from the new. Our culture has had its share of liminal moments, and there's no better time than an anniversary issue to celebrate our favorite movers, shakers and stirrers. We start with Marilyn Monroe, the most profoundly sexual woman of our era. She was born the same year as Hugh Hefner was and shared the same sense of liberation. "I dreamed I was standing in church without any clothes on," she once...
