By Ronald Constantino
TARGET – Yes, “Let’s get physical” as said by Boze Hadleigh in “Hollywood Babble On.”
First target is American cinema’s incomparable sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn was a glorified transvestite. – BOY GEORGE
That broad’s got a great future behind her. – CONSTANCE BENNETT
Marilyn’s got agoraphobia, which was just one of her problems. She’d go to the hairdresser in the morning, then go home and stay there all day. She had a beautiful complexion, but when the camera would start rolling, she’d break out in a rash. I had a theory that if the camera began to roll, she’d start to menstruate – she was that vulnerable. ROBERT MITCHUM
Every other actress in Hollywood had a nose job, from the Gabors to Marlo Thomas and Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was sensitive about hers, even though she only had the tip done. A nose job was just part of her ordeal in climbing to the top. When she was tipsy, she might break down and tell you how she’d also had offer blow jobs to climb the ladder to success – wrong by wrong. – PETER LAWFORD
Another TARGET is the elegant Audrey Hepburn.
In the 1950s she had a great influence on how women in Europe and America wanted to look. It was more realistic for them to become like her than like Marilyn Monroe. – LUCHINO VISCONTI
Audrey is the patron saint of the anorexics. – ORSON WELLES
(Maria) Callas admired Miss Hepburn in “Roman Holiday,” and from then on she taped her photographs to her walls, in the kitchen, everywhere. She almost starved herself. Of course, then she could play almost anything she chose. – VISCONTI (again)
How about RAQUEL WELCH?
I pity any actor who gets second billing to Raquel Welch. He’s really getting third billing to her breasts! – EDWARD G. ROBINSON
Raquel Welch is silicone from neck down. Or so I have heard. But she will only admit to a nose job. She says she corrected what she calls her “Latin nose.” What the hell is a Latin nose? I am myself a Latin, and my nose is most decorative. – FERNANDO LAMAS
