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 wanted she had 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 were a dramatic actress. you think that s impossible. what i d like to do is be a good actress. when you want that, you re not necessarily going to find it in hollywood. there is 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 already somewhere else. she is 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 anything. nobody knew. marlyn walked out a
nude photographs. modeling in the nud will pay double what regular modeling will. our world is a business of women s bodies. and she realized this is a transaction. magnificent. the female hower she s harnessed is phenomenal. she saryching her back and her arm is up to create beautiful leans, beautiful angles. they look like 19th century nudes. she wasn t afraid of showing off her body, which was a great body. but it s easy to forget what a conservative country america was. nude modeling was not considered respectable. it could have ended her career. i think i was sure they won t recognize me. he said, is i promise. this is hollywood. it is a symbol for magic, entertainment and make-believe a. r . reporter: after love happy, maryland thought she s on the brink of stardom. she s done it. she s there. but it doesn t happen. it s like marlin is just another blond girl. but one thing that all the great movie stars shared was determination. so, of course she we
[ sound of gunfire ] as far back as i can remember, i always wanted to be a gangster. goodfellas is like, fasten your seatbelts, i m going to kick the shit out of you for two and a half hours and you re going to love it. there have been so many gangster movies, so many mob movies. is it really possible that in 1990 martin scorsese will be able to make a gangster movie that has something to say that hasn t already been said a million times? it s going to be a good summer. and you watch the movie and you re like, yeah. see you later, thanks. what are you doing? you re leaving your car? he watches the car for me. we tried to capture the exuberance of that world. it s dangerous and threatening, but they re having a wonderful time. over there. oh, thanks a lot. goodfellas was the nuts and bolts of the mob. it was the mob as a job. what do you do? what? what do you do? i m in construction. and the balance of these two families, of your mob
and white house cleanup efforts, which is not to say that president biden s missteps are meani meaningless, they do matter, but do they matter as much as pocketbook issues? this brand-new nbc poll shows what matters most, only 22% of americans saying the country is on the right track. many feeling the pinch of inflation, one of the pollsters described america as divided, doubting democracy and tuning out. that last part is really interesting, tuning out. quoted nbc, interesting in the upcoming november midterms is down, not up. people aren t paying attention to what might happen ten months from now. they re tired, demoralized, some are just tuning out the news. with that in mind what was the most surprising story this week? well, i would nominate the successful launch of the government s website for ordering free covid tests. it s surprising partly because it took so long, two years into the pandemic now they re finally doing it and it s coming after the latest surge in many
we re prepared with europe for a swift and calibrated and great united response. also today, a new intelligence report from the uk says there is a plot to remove the government in ukraine and replace it with a pro-moscow puppet regime. a charge the russians are denying. all this comes as a new shipment of u.s. military aid arrived in ukraine this weekend that included ammunition which ukrainian troops could potentially use fighting on the front lines against invading forces. cnn s chief international correspondent clarissa ward is in ukraine. white house correspondent arlette saenz is in washington and also jill dougherty. she s also a former cnn moscow bureau chief. good to see all of you ladies. clarissa, you first. antony blinken s rhetoric may be getting tougher, but is that going to resonate at all in ukraine or moscow? well, it certainly resonates well in ukraine. after that sort of hiccup in the middle of the week where president biden had implied that potentially