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Marilyn Monroe in Chicago - Ed Jewett - 13-08-2011 By Erica Orden and Jack Nicas Marilyn Monroe Sculpture, Skirt Billowing, Has Windy City Breathing Heavily CHICAGOMarilyn Monroe was always larger than life. But here in the Windy City, the bombshell's recent appearance, in sculptural form, is showing that some viewers like it hot, others not so much. A 26-foot-tall, 17-ton sculpture of the movie star in her iconic pose from "The Seven Year Itch," holding down her flyaway halter dress, went on display last month in a prominent plaza on Michigan Avenue. Curious visitors, sometimes more than 100 at a time, swarm Marilyn. Little girls stand on her toes, leaving black scuffmarks on her red pedicure. They hug her ankles and struggle for footholds on the straps of her slingback high heels. Continue reading the article . . . http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903366504576490202247320860.html Related reading: Marilyn Monroe Wikipedia Slide Sow: The 26-Foot Woman The Wall Street Journal (8 Aug 11) http://solari.com/blog/?p=13862 Marilyn Monroe in Chicago - Magda Hassan - 13-08-2011 Oh, god, the image Marilyn being 17 tons just does not do it for me at all! Then there is all the hardness and coldness of the medium they used to make it, stainless steel. She looks brittle and flinty and like an Amazonian Barbie Godzilla in a wax death mask. Here she looks like she is going to the loo in the bushes http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903366504576490202247320860.html#project%3DSLIDESHOW08%26s%3DSB10001424053111903366504576490472385995118%26articleTabs%3Dslideshow Here is a man with a foot fetish worshipping her sandals. And these are not gentlemen despite the clothes and they treat her disrespectfully as they did in life. Marilyn Monroe in Chicago - Ed Jewett - 13-08-2011 Yes, it's the same way she was treated only in mega-size, and now everyone can get into the act... gonna need some oversized pills, an oversized shrink, an oversized grieving Dimaggio, and an over-sized candle in the wind ... she had the grace to hold herself while those around her crawled... Marilyn Monroe in Chicago - Charles Drago - 13-08-2011 Those guys look like her droppings -- except they're not worthy of the roles. Marilyn Monroe in Chicago - Bernice Moore - 16-08-2011 here's the video news, if not posted...b... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/celebrity-news-video/8642126/Giant-Marilyn-Monroe-statue-erected-in-Chicago.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903366504576490202247320860.html#project%3DSLIDESHOW08%26s%3DSB10001424053111903366504576490472385995118%26articleTabs%3Dvideo the tourists love it, and it is sooooooooooo tame compared to what's going on in the world, it makes you wonder why any complaints, except, she is still being used..... Marilyn Monroe in Chicago - Ed Jewett - 16-08-2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQtPwEG0nQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seward_Johnson_I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seward_Johnson_II (the sculptor/artist)