Playbill
June, 2001
Happy birthday, Marilyn. Depending on how you slice the b-day cake, we're either three quarters through or halfway into the Marilyn Monroe century. Gentlemen prefer the latter, which marks not her birthday (she'd be 75 this month) but her baptism as Sweetheart of the Month in the first issue of Playboy. "Her initial appearance embodied the first truly open communication in America about sexuality," says Scott Turow. Rosebud! In Forever Marilyn Turow reminds us--with the help of some lu...
