The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch is a wonderful movie.

Marilyn Monroe is a sensational comic actress.

The decent professionals in Hollywood say "they took advantage of her." That sounds right.

One of husbands was Joltin' Joe Dimaggio. He was regarded as a folk hero when I grew up. Richard Ben Cramer's biography of Joe showed him to be a vain, mean, money-grubbing man.

He was was consumed by jealousy, one of the most harmful of human emotions. (Think Othello, the Moor of Venice, Desdemona, and that rat Iago. (I played Roderigo in college.)

Joe D. went la-la at that scene in SYI when the vents from the subway blew up MM's skirts.

The Green montser strikes again.

Ben