Bus Stop

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... films it.

Such a wonderful name.

I had a Dr. Rainey-

... objectively a masterpiece.

Mm.

Uh, and I c- we've watched a lot of films on, on this show that, like, come out and got sharks in it, and then are just never talked about again.

Like, we'll do an episode on it and then it's gone.

Well, at the time, I think she was viewed much more as just a sex symbol and not as any kind of serious actress or any serious person.

But I think it's the decades following that she has just continued to fascinate, and people, film historians and scholars and movie lovers, have reevaluated her work as an actress, and that's something that I tried to talk about when I introduced Bus Stop yesterday.

And we're gonna talk about that next, but I just have to go back to the auction and this feeling of, I have this Richard Avedon portrait of Marilyn Monroe in my home office, and it's taken at the end of the photo shoot, and she looks so unmasked, but also tired, and I just feel, like, so much empathy for her and all the people, to me, that feel like they capitalized on her and took advantage of her, and I...

It's hard for me to look at those auctions of her used lipstick and not feel like here's another person capitalizing on her and taking advantage of her, even in, you know, 100 years after her birth, and I...

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Um, you introduced Bus Stop, which we show it on Friday, July 17th, in the Plaza Theater.

It's about Bo, a sheltered young cowboy played by Don Murray in his film debut, who journeys from Montana to Phoenix for a rodeo and to hopefully find love.

And I was just fascinated with her.

You know, I when I was a kid growing up in Missouri, I my escape were old movies that I watched on television.

And I just was riveted with, you know, old Hollywood.

And Rona Barrett was like a bridge to that.

Yeah.

And they, they went for her when they bypassed Marilyn in Bus Stop that year.

Yeah.

Yeah.