Roger, thank you so much for the link. I saw it on Drudge but would not have read it all but for you. What an amazing woman! Because of her transcendent beauty and charisma, it has been so easy for so long for so many to dismiss her as a ditz. It seems to be something most men and many women have to do to beautiful women, especially stars of Marilyn’s caliber (of which we have zero now, I am more than ever convinced). Her familiarity with and understanding of Shakespeare should humble almost all of us. She references literature, authors, and concepts many of us are woefully ignorant of. She displays a keen mind, a vibrant curiosity, a fundamental understanding of herself and others, that is breathtaking to behold. Her understanding of psychoanalysis is mesmerizing.

I know I write as though she is still alive, and in fact for many I am sure she still is. I was too young when she died to appreciate who and what she was, but these words definitely help explain why she had and still has a hold on so many. Truly an incandescent star and a remarkable woman. One can only imagine what she might have accomplished had her candle not been snuffed out in her prime.