Terrible Idea Of The Day: Marilyn
Naomi Watts has signed on to play Marilyn Monroe in the film adaptation of Blonde, the imagined memoir of Marilyn Monroe by Joyce Carol Oates that was nominated for a Pulitzer in 2000. (I’m not sure whom I dislike more: Marilyn (except for her exceptionally tasty bit in “All About Eve” or Oates (nothing of her criminally vast output do I like). The story Oates wrote includes allusions to sex with Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller, and John F. Kennedy—not to mention a smattering of studio executives and others. The film is to be directed by Andrew Dominik (The Assasination of Jesse James), and the distributor says that he imagines the project as “a modern Raging Bull which will explore one of the most iconic figures of the last century.â€
