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Love is love, and there will never be too much
A lucky man named Bill Magee tells Maria Popova:
“Back in 2000, a teenage Fiona Apple fan named Bill Magee decided to approach the singer after a gig and hand her a letter. In it, the 16-year-old spoke of his school’s gay-straight alliance — of which he was a member — and asked if she could possibly reply with a sentence or two in its support.
The next week, the following handwritten letter was delivered by FedEx to Bill’s house.”
Marilyn Monroe chosen as the face of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival
Organizers of the event, which begins this year on May 16, explained the choice in a statement:
Fifty years after her death, Marilyn is still a major figure in world cinema, an eternal icon, whose grace, mystery and power of seduction remain resolutely contemporary. The Festival poster captures Marilyn by surprise in an intimate moment where myth meets reality — a moving tribute to the anniversary of her passing, which coincides with the Festival anniversary. She enchants us with this promising gesture: a seductively blown kiss. The Festival is a temple of glamour and Marilyn is its perfect incarnation. Their coming together symbolizes the ideal of simplicity and elegance.”
Long live Marilyn.
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
Kurt Vonnegut
