Seeing and Hearing is Not Believing
Forget everything you've seen. Forget everything you believe. If it's based on what you've seen. If you've never seen "Wag the Dog", see it. It maybe one of the most important movies for this generation. The reason for this is that this generation is bombarded by news 24-hours a day. On many stations. How do we know anything we see is actually true? We're actually one giant movie.
When Shakespeare said, "All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players", I believe he was writing about our time.
When you turn on a news station and you see comedians telling you the news, you have to wonder, "Is this 'Saturday Night Live', or is it real?" Half the time we cannot tell anymore. Which brings me to the following story.
My coming-of-age years were when Marilyn Monroe was riding the crest and then falling into the crevasse of her life. In the 1950s, she set the standard for beauty and sexuality. And, as the public, despite the fact that they were divorced, we were always told how much Joe DiMaggio loved Marilyn. How he put flowers on her grave weekly for many years after her death. I recently read a book which disturbed me deeply about Marilyn. When Joe married Marilyn, she was at the peak of her fame, but yet he wanted her to quit the movies. He was jealous, not only of the attention she received, but also the fact that as "The Yankee Clipper", she really outshone him at every public event they attended. I had to ask myself, "Could Joe not imagine what it would be like to marry this woman before he did marry her?" What was really disturbing was that Joe was physically abusive to Marilyn. On the set of "There's No Business Like Show Business", they had to cover her bruises so that they would not be seen on-screen. When her skirt blew up in the scene from "Seven Year Itch", he got so mad, he was very violent, and this finally provoked their divorce.
Regarding the flowers, when they were married, Marilyn made Joe promise to put flowers on her grave weekly. This is what William Powell did for Jean Harlow after she died. Frankly, she deserved the flowers. Later in life, Joe did what he could to help Marilyn fight her demons, but to think that he could lift a hand to this beautiful creature, hurt me, as the reader and a fan.
So how much did Joe love Marilyn? How can any of us ever measure that kind of emotion or lack of it? But whenever I hear people tell me things, I always have to say to myself now, "Is it real, is it true, am I being played."
I think in the end, we all have to judge reality ourselves, and not just listen to the things we hear or the pictures we see. Remember, everything we see and hear can be doctored and fabricated. Edgar Cayce once said the best book is "self". Maybe we all better look inside to find the truth and reality.
When Shakespeare said, "All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players", I believe he was writing about our time.
When you turn on a news station and you see comedians telling you the news, you have to wonder, "Is this 'Saturday Night Live', or is it real?" Half the time we cannot tell anymore. Which brings me to the following story.
My coming-of-age years were when Marilyn Monroe was riding the crest and then falling into the crevasse of her life. In the 1950s, she set the standard for beauty and sexuality. And, as the public, despite the fact that they were divorced, we were always told how much Joe DiMaggio loved Marilyn. How he put flowers on her grave weekly for many years after her death. I recently read a book which disturbed me deeply about Marilyn. When Joe married Marilyn, she was at the peak of her fame, but yet he wanted her to quit the movies. He was jealous, not only of the attention she received, but also the fact that as "The Yankee Clipper", she really outshone him at every public event they attended. I had to ask myself, "Could Joe not imagine what it would be like to marry this woman before he did marry her?" What was really disturbing was that Joe was physically abusive to Marilyn. On the set of "There's No Business Like Show Business", they had to cover her bruises so that they would not be seen on-screen. When her skirt blew up in the scene from "Seven Year Itch", he got so mad, he was very violent, and this finally provoked their divorce.
Regarding the flowers, when they were married, Marilyn made Joe promise to put flowers on her grave weekly. This is what William Powell did for Jean Harlow after she died. Frankly, she deserved the flowers. Later in life, Joe did what he could to help Marilyn fight her demons, but to think that he could lift a hand to this beautiful creature, hurt me, as the reader and a fan.
So how much did Joe love Marilyn? How can any of us ever measure that kind of emotion or lack of it? But whenever I hear people tell me things, I always have to say to myself now, "Is it real, is it true, am I being played."
I think in the end, we all have to judge reality ourselves, and not just listen to the things we hear or the pictures we see. Remember, everything we see and hear can be doctored and fabricated. Edgar Cayce once said the best book is "self". Maybe we all better look inside to find the truth and reality.
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