From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, January 7, 2001 at 7:30:49 AM UTC-8, NowReVuing wrote:   
   > Bosley Crowther wrote of Marilyn Monroe in "Bus Stop": "Fortunately for her   
   and   
   > for the tradition of diligence leading to success, she gives a performance in   
   > this picture that marks her as a genuine acting star, not just a plushy   
   > personality and a sex symbol." This blather is pure ignorance, but I can't   
   > figure out if it's from his unawareness of Marilyn's very public private   
   life,   
   > or if it's just plain critical witlessness. After attending Lee Strasberg's   
   > Actors Studio for a go at trying to be more than a sex goddess, Marilyn   
   decided   
   > to bring what she thought she absorbed to William Inge's cloying bit of rural   
   > Americana. Maybe only once in her movies is urban vamp Marilyn barely   
   > acceptable as campestral -- in "The River of No Return," with Robert Mitchum   
   as   
   > her much-needed anchor -- but not in this tripe, and not in a performance   
   that   
   > records a nervous breakdown. She believed she should have at least won an   
   > Academy Award nomination for it; instead, it marked the real beginning of her   
   > descent. Authors and the psycho drummers have long guessed that she was   
   always   
   > unstable, and this movie is in its own sick way a confirmation, and, further,   
   > it's evidence of the damaging relationship she had with Strasberg and his   
   > family. They ruined America's most giggly, charmingly seductive comedienne --   
   > they turned her into a lachrymose, corseted Madeleine Sherwood. Another   
   Joshua   
   > Logan-directed mess, with Don Murray (Oscar-nominated), Eileen Heckart, Betty   
   > Field, Arthur O'Connell, Hope Lange and a lot of fake snowflakes.   
      
   (Youtube upload):   
      
   "MARILYN MONROE in BUS STOP - The Making of an actress - EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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