Sparkle Like The Stars

Apparently not a match made in heaven.

Marilyn Monroe fretted over a relationship with then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and had a one-night stand with actress Joan Crawford that left her cold.

Monroe also thought sex with former spouse and playwright Arthur Miller was just “so-so” and maintained a deep affection for ex-husband Joe DiMaggio. But she credited her psychiatrist with teaching her how to achieve orgasm.

The Los Angeles Times revealed a few glimpses into Monroe’s mind on Friday in excerpts of tape recordings the sex symbol and actress is said to have secretly made for her psychiatrist in the days before she died at the age of 36 in 1962.

The Times said it obtained a written record of the tapes from the only person still alive who claims to have heard them — former prosecutor John Miner, 86, who says the recordings support his belief Monroe was a victim of foul play.

(Note to self: When I become irresistibly famous, destroy all sex tapes of self and Johnny Depp, Anais Nin-like diaries, and evidence of affair with JFK Jr., lest it all be revealed years after my sudden and tragic death. )

Suicide or foul play, if you think about it in terms of celebrity, dying young was a great career move for Marilyn. Our eternal image of her is young, sensitive and hauntingly sexual and we never have to see her grow into an old, shut-in shell of her former glory wearing way too much make up and giving a crazy-lady-with-14 cats-next-door speech when she accepts her lifetime achievement award. This way she has eternal mystique, like James Dean and Jim Morrison.

(Icegrrl’s impromptu list of other people who should have died young before age and a new era of media destroyed our image of them forever: Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor).

But Marilyn, blessed with an early death and therefore an eternal, undeniable mystique, will always be youthful and glamorous. Part of her glamour was, undoubtedly her accessorizing skills. Generally in either a necklace or earrings, she would pick one stunning piece and it, and her low cut dress, would do all the talking. In the photo above she’s pulling off that glamorously casual look brilliantly in chandelier earrings like the ones below.

I think these gorgeous diamond and pearl earrings are most like the ones in the photo. Wear them like Marilyn, with little or no other jewelry and rock the house at your next semi-formal affair.	In a not-quite heart shape, these 1/2 carat diamond chandelier earrings have a exotic sweetness to them that I love.
The design of these earrings employ a modern simplicity.	For something a little different, look at these earrings featuring Topaz.