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Marilyn Monroe causes controversy in Chicago

Marilyn Monroe led a controversial lifestyle having had several affairs with high status people such as Yves Montand, Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra. She was also rumored to have had affairs with Robert Kennedy and his brother President John F Kennedy. She was a successful actress and won a Golden Globe in 1960 for her performance in Some Like It Hot. However, she was a very volatile actress and was sacked from her last film Something’s Got To Give due to persistent lateness and drug dependency.

And now, all of these years later, Marilyn Monroe is still causing controversy as a statue of her was unveiled in Chicago on 15 July 2011. The Chicago Sun-Times claims the statue makes Chicago look bad and that it is beyond-kitschy. The statue certainly towers above the city standing at 26-foot tall recreating the moment when Marilyn Monroe’s dress flies up in “The Seven Year Itch”. The statue has already become a tourist attraction with tourists having their photos taken looking up her skirt or holding on to her ankle. The Chicago paper says of the statue “this thing is just hideous” and asks “Did we lose a bet?” What do you think of the statue of Marilyn Monroe ? Would you like it in your town? Some residents of Chicago and certainly the paper are grateful that the statue will only stand until spring 2012.

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The United States of America is clean. Squalor worries Americans, particularly since the end of World War II and the Eisenhower I-State system and more so since Lady Bird Johnson’s beautification of the country, as her husband and the powerful Democrat Senate Majority Leader from Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was JFK’s Vice President before becoming president, put a semblance of order on the country’s racial and ethnic underclasses through his Great Society program of the American welfare state, from civil rights in 1964 to voting rights in 1965 and, somewhere in between, Medicare for the elderly. He must also have been concerned by the reduced migration of Europeans to the United States as Europe recovered because of the Marshall Plan. So, he reformed immigration to let more non-Europeans in.

In the Europe of the commoners, the soccer playing masses of the continent of the heritage of the United States, hooliganism is a scourge in the feverish stadia, as if that bad habit had been inherited from the Roman colisea where gladiators competed with wild animals to entertain the citizens of the empire as the elites watched to distract the denizens from their duties as citizens of the state so that they could rule through unchecked power – a form of state-hooliganism or etatism.

Hooliganism, from the United Kingdom to Italy, in post-war Europe is characterized by a litter of garbage strewn in sports arenas after episodes of drunken revelry and bloody fist fights. European governments don’t like guns on the streets. And increasingly, their leaders don’t like weapons in the hands of their governments. Knifes, bottles, and cans for their citizens and legal small arms and light weapons for their militaries serve the purposes of the citizens and the state.

The United States, in its pursuit of ever more perfection, ups the ante in the class warfare of the globalization of violence. American government likes guns on the streets and select national parks of the hunter Teddy Roosevelt and privacy is protected with private armaments at the risk of the landlords and invited guests under a cloak of secrecy, away from the prying eyes of the tabloids and the talk shows.

American mainstream media, unlike its counterpart in Europe, is far too caring of the perceived dignity of its subjects to discuss the private antics of its rich and famous which is perhaps why they had left JFK alone in the White House and in Hollywood to maintain the myth of the American version of the Anglo-Saxon King Arthur’s Camelot, despite the Irish Catholic Celtic extraction of John Kennedy, from upstairs in the White House to the cabins of the ships of the Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky were not rich and famous as JFK and Marilyn Monroe were when they committed their faux pas.

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