Goodbye Norma Jean, but candle burns on; She remains the ultimate sex goddess, but Marilyn Monroe's fans are furious over a new book they claim is shameful and exploitative.(Features)

From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: April 14, 2000| Author: Spavin, Vicky | Copyright information

FEMALE superstars are created every other minute ... but one has outlasted them all.

Thirty-eight years after she died in mysterious circumstances in her Hollywood home, interest in Marilyn Monroe couldn't be any more intense.

And as the countdown to the anniversary of what would have been her 75th birthday begins, the world is about to experience Marilyn-mania.

The frenzy began this week with the publication of Blonde, a 738-page fictionalised acc...

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