We know Marilyn Monroe the actress and Marilyn Monroe the sex symbol, but previously redacted FBI files obtained by the Associated Press now reveal a different side: Marilyn Monroe, suspected communist.
Today in books and publishing: The Los Angeles Times has a new books editor; an onslaught of celebrity books; James Franco casts for As I Lay Dying; female authors take over best-of and best-seller lists.
Your daily dose of Jon Hamm news: An SNL sketch with Lindsay Lohan was pulled at the last second. And don't get him started on Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian!
If it weren't for the corporate influence over U.S. copyright laws, the brilliant works that would be in the public domain this year include Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues, Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp, and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Return of the King.
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