A Broken Venus
December, 2012
BY JOHN UPDIKEarilyn Monroe was not nudity-averse. Natasha Lytess, who lived with the star in the late 1940s, recalled how she would come naked from her bedroom around noon, bathe for an hour and, "still without a stitch on.. .drift in a sort of sleepwalking daze into the kitchen and fix her own breakfast." So it was at the studio, where she "ambled unconcerned, completely naked, around her bungalow, among wardrobe women, make-up girls, hairdressers. Being naked seems to soothe he...
