Monroe the Model
“I suppose you could say she was a model of the universe,” Stephen W. Hawking says of Marilyn Monroe in David Gritten’s April 1 article on the physicist/author.
Because of the film based on his book “A Brief History of Time,” Hawking is now a movie actor, as was Monroe.
And there are other similarities. Monroe’s disability resulting from sexual molestation as a child contorted her spirit and mind into attitudes which ultimately led to her success. Hawking, while brilliant and well-educated and an original thinker, would probably be the first to admit that his handicaps (caused by Lou Gehrig’s disease) fire his determination to survive and contribute.
Indeed, Monroe is a model of the universe. She was raped, pillaged and manipulated, yet she adjusted.
JAN KNOWLTON
Anaheim
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