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NEVER SEEN BEFORE MARILYN MONROE PHOTOS SURFACE !!!??!!!

Wow!!!!! New photos have surfaced of Marilyn Monroe!!!!  Taken in her final days in the last shoot she had! These will be a buy for sure!!!  Check it out!!  Let the bidding begin! XOxo  Love her!

 

Rare Photos of Marilyn Monroe's Last Sitting for Sale

The photos will be on view to the public starting Sept. 6

                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

 

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This 1962 photo provided by Freeman's auction house in Philadelphia shows one of a limited-edition portfolio of 10 photos of Marilyn Monroe that is scheduled to go on the block Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. The photos were made from fashion photographer Bert Stern's original negatives from his June 1962 assignment for Vogue.

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A rare portfolio of photographs from Marilyn Monroe's last sitting is up for grabs to the highest bidder.

Freeman's auction house in Philadelphia estimates the limited-edition portfolio of 10 photos, made from fashion photographer Bert Stern's original negatives from his June 1962 assignment for Vogue, could fetch $10,000 to $15,000 when it goes on the block Sept. 10.

The photos will be on view to the public starting Sept. 6, said Aimee Pflieger, head of the century-old auction house's photography division.

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Stern, who died in June at age 83, took more than 2,500 photos of the Hollywood icon over three days at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. The 20-by-20-inch portfolio photos are from the first day, when Stern and Monroe were alone before the arrival of a cadre of Vogue staffers, and project a feeling of spontaneity and playfulness that stands out from the others.

"He brought a turntable and speakers and three cases of champagne,'' Pflieger said. "The feeling you get from the photos is they're having a great time.''

Six weeks after her session with Stern, the 36-year-old screen siren was found dead in her home Aug. 5 of an apparent drug overdose. A half-century later, she remains one of the 20th-century's most enduring sex symbols.

Stern's photos were a sensation, partly because they were taken right before Monroe's death and partly because they included the first nude photos of Monroe since 1949. Many of the nudes show the star posing with diaphanous scarves, paper flowers and pearls in bright but diffuse natural light that gives the photos a dreamlike quality.

"She was beautiful and untouched,'' Stern said. "It was as though she were just beginning.''

Monroe is often described in the photos as projecting an aura of damage and desperation, but Pflieger disagrees.

"We project our own thoughts onto them when we look at them,'' she said. "To me, they're soft, beautiful, clutter-free images just filled with light ... they give you a real sense of her personality and playfulness.''

Other Monroe photos are being auctioned the same day, including more from the personal collection of the portfolio owner, who the auction house said wishes to remain anonymous.

Also going on the auction block are nearly 100 photographs from the corporate collection of cosmetics giant Avon's headquarters in New York City. The photographs are all by female artists from the 1910s to the 1990s _ from the little known to the prominent Cindy Sherman and Louise Dahl-Wolfe _ and focus on themes of beauty through the eyes of women.

Part of the proceeds from Avon's auction will benefit the Avon Foundation, which advances efforts related to breast cancer research and combating domestic violence.
 

DID YOU MISS AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL!!??!!??

WELLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! Here is a little story on what went down last night on the premiere of America's next top model!!!  Sooooooo amazing that they have men .... women... and even transgender contestants this year!!!  We have come so far and it is just great to see the world embracing everyone, regardless of their differences!!!  WerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrQ!!   Bloop Bloop!!   Check it out!  XOxo

“America’s Next Top Model” Recap: Smizing Throught The Tears

August 3, 2013 ● by Dan Avery

The Tyra Banks Vanity Nightmare Project, a.k.a. America’s Next Top Model, has returned for Cycle 20. Despite keeping the problematically formulaic game and narrative structure, which relies heavily on commercial breaks  and humiliation as the main sources of dramatic tension, this season introduced a slight twist: Both males and female persons are competing for the title of Top Non-Gender Specific Corporate Spokesperson!
Join me as I put my Masters in Liberal Studies to use and deconstruct the Butlerian gender politics of this particular post-modern hyper-simulacrum. Just kidding! My Masters degree is completely useless, so let’s just recap the dumbest shit people do instead. In fact, considering this show has been on for 20 damn seaso—I mean cycles—we can pretty much break down each stupid-ass thing the contestants do into a variety of equally predictable modular categories. Let’s test out this thought experiment, shall we?

Useless Piece of Advice Offered by a Judge: Tyra meets Marvin, a Bronx native from an economically unfortunate background. Marvin explains to the judges that when he was growing up he was embarrassed by his father, a lowly janitor. In a moment of self-help inspired nonsense, Tyra commands this tearful boy-toy to scream, at the top of his lungs, “MY DAD IS A JANITOR!!” What this has to do with being a good model I’m not clear on.

Bold-Faced Lie the Judges Tell to Give the Show Artistic Credibility: Johnny Wujek, the lispy, silly-hatted wonderboy who replaced Mister Jay last season, tells the kids that the first runway show will be “avant-garde.” At this particular moment, part of me wished that Mathew Barney and Bjork would descend from the sky wearing dresses made of squids. Instead the twist was that the models had to kiss each other at the end of their runway walk. And then Marcel Duchamp turned over his grave and threw up on himself.

Obvious Sob Story: What would ANTM be without some poor disadvantaged or marginalized individual expressing their sadness in an awkwardly claustrophobic confessional? Because this was the first episode of this cycle, we had plenty of lacrimation. But the winner of sobbiest sob story goes to Virgg, a beautiful transgender woman who left the competition because of health issues due to her hormone treatments. Virgg, in your short time on this show, you kissed a straight man and made him question his sexuality. For that we salute you. Can’t wait to see you in Cycle 21.

Petty Cat-Fight: This one actually took me by surprise: I expected the women to be the biggest offenders in this category, however the men proved to be the bitchier bitches this week. Socially awkward Chris H. does not understand homo-sociality, so he goes around rochambeau-ing the other male mannequins. Hipster Phil (because he has a beard, and fingerless gloves, and ripped jeans; so Brooklyn!) doesn’t take kindly to this male bonding ritual and throws a drink in his face and gestures feverishly until the camera cuts to commercial. Later,  we get a shot of Hipster Phil looking angry when Chris H. is chosen to move on in the competition. Will they be our Sharon Needles and Phi Phi O’Hara?

Useless Male-Model Moment: There was literally a minute-long montage of these gorillas asking “Where the girls at?” before arriving at the competition. We get it. You’re straight. In fact, so straight, it’s pretty hard to tell any of you apart. Except for femme-queen Cory (right) and that tiny gay who didn’t get any screen time. Hey Cory, you seem pretty cool, now go slay those breeders on the runway.

Just Plain Old Stupid-Ass Thing Someone Said: We all know models aren’t known for their smarts. So every episode there will be at least one person saying something mind-bogglingly idiotic. The winner of this week’s JPOSATSS award goes to Ke$ha wannabe Alexandra (right), who, when explaining her personal history, said this: “My family’s just been through so much […] My dad had his entire company but then the economy happened and we lost everything.” Let me say that again. The economy happened. It just happened. That’s how economies work, they just happen. Okay.

Well that should be it for this week. The next episode airs August 9, and we have so much to look forward to! But mostly, I just can’t wait to discover who has an illicit gay-porn past and see what other lace-fronts Tyra receives from the Dida Ritz Wig of the Month Club!

ELLEN TO HOST THE OSCARS!!?!!

Yay!!!  Love us some Ellen!!!!  Are you as excited about her hosting the Oscars as we are~!~!~!???~!~!    Wow!~!  Loves it!!  Check out this writing from www.newnownext.com  !   Enjoy!!  XOxo  

 

BREAKING: Ellen DeGeneres To Host 2014 Oscars

August 2, 2013 ● by Dan Avery

It is a known fact that gays make the best award show hosts: Who knows more about Hollywood trivia? And you just know Bruce Vilanch saves his best jokes for us homos.

So it’s not exactly a shocker that Ellen DeGeneres has been tapped to host the 2014 Academy Awards. (And I for one don’t have the sads that Seth McFarland won’t be singing about boobs again.)
Ellen, of course, did a bang-up job the last time she hosted the Oscars, in 2007. “I am so excited to be hosting the Oscars for the second time,” DeGeneres said, joking that “you know what they say – the third time’s the charm.”
The Oscars, which will air on March 2, are also being produced by power gays: Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
“We are thrilled to have Ellen DeGeneres host the Oscars,” said Zadan and Meron jointly. “As a longtime friend, we had always hoped to find a project for us to do together and nothing could be more exciting than teaming up to do the Oscars. There are few stars today who have Ellen’s gift for comedy, with her great warmth and humanity.”
Okay, but next time we want Jane Lynch.