after you get what you want, you don t want it. that s a perfect number, because that s really her story, too. because after you get what you want you don t want what you she had the money and the lights and the costumes and the fans. i know you but there was something missing. she doesn t want to be stuck at fox making stereotype movies. i could have sworn you re a dramatic actress. that s impossible. what i d like to do is to be a good actress. when you want that, you re not necessarily going to find it in hollywood. there s no business like show business opens to great fanfare, but marilyn is nowhere to be seen. marilyn monroe didn t show up for her own movie premiere. her mind and her life were somewhere else. she was incognito. as zelda zonk. zelda zonk was a beautiful woman in a black, bobbed wig sneaking away from l.a. to start a new life in new york. she didn t tell anybody, and nobody knew. marilyn walked out as a declaration
she knew exactly what she was doing. it was how she could push back against them. one day we waited for a very long time. and sir laurence made her apologize to the whole crew. for keeping them waiting so long. excuse me. but once she was in front of the camera, she was magic. hey, listen, i can do the short one. i need it for my heart, it s kind of beating down here. so sorry. it s all right, it s not your fault. in fact, if i d known this was all that was going to happen, i needn t have been nervous. long life to your grand highness. cheerio. better luck next time, only not with me, of course. when you watch the movie, i think she s much better than he is in it. he comes off stilted, and she is always luminous. hey, listen. there s something to this stuff. are you sure there s no effect when you drink it that way? she upstages him into the heavens. it s one of her loveliest, sweetest, most effective
i need it for my heart. it s kind of beating down here. i m so sorry. it s all right, it s not your fault. if i had known this was all that was going to happen, i need nt have been nervous. when you watch the movie, i think she s much better than he is in it. he comes off stilted, and she is always luminous. hey, listen. there s something to this stuff. she upstages him into the heavens. it s one of her loveliest, sweetest, most effective performances. and she steals it from him. i think you have had enough. i think so too. behind the scenes, the conflict with yolivier is splintering her relationship with her friend and co-producer, milton green. he would get up every day, go
in fact, if i had known all this was going to happen, i wouldn t even have been nervous. long life to your grand highness. cheerio. better luck next time. only not with me, of course. when you watch the movie, i think she s much better than he is in it. i think he comes off stilted, and she is always luminous. listen, are you sure there is no effect when you drink it that way? she up stages him into the heavens. it s one of her lovliest, sweetest, most effective performances, and she steals it from him. i think you have had enough. i think, too. behind the scenes the conflict with olivier is splintering marilyn s relationship with her friend and coproducer milton greene. he would get up every day and go to pinewood and be a producer, which meant calm everybody, make sure everybody shows up to thankless jobs.
of his sort of high staging which clearly feeds his ego, it gives it some distance. where state of the union responses, in my opinion, fail is when they try to mimic that high ceremony, when they try to do a version of it and it comes off stilted. stacey abrams, i thought, made a very interesting choice to literally make her response feel like a response from the average person, from the people. she wrote the speech herself. it felt very personal, and it felt like kind of the response of your average person, the feeling you get about the president. the fact that the shutdown, she said, was a stunt by the president. the tax bill was rigged. it was a rigged system against ordinary people. she talked about the fact of the caging of children not being the way america is supposed to be. it felt personal. and i think the staging of it with the people behind her, it gave it the sense that donald trump was speaking for himself, from high ceremony and from his