FOK!toen: Marilyn Monroe overleden
Vandaag precies 51 jaar geleden stierf actrice en sekssymbool Marilyn Monroe op 36-jarige leeftijd. Hoewel autoriteiten het op zelfmoord gooiden, is haar dood op 5 augustus 1962 al jaren onderwerp van debat.
Monroe was één van de eersten die in Playboy stond en werd in de fifties en sixties wereldberoemd. Ze was geestelijk instabiel en vaak ongelukkig. Ze datete naar verluidt president Kennedy in het geheim. De theorieën over haar dood kun je zelf opzoeken en IMDb brengt je de lijst met films waarin ze speelde.
Een selectie aan citaten tref je hieronder aan, afgewisseld met (inmiddels rechtenvrije) foto's van Marilyn. Wat vind jij haar beste rol? En was het nou moord of zelfmoord?
- I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
- I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
- Ever notice how ‘What the hell’ is always the right answer?
- I’m selfish, impatient, and insecure. I make mistakes. I am out of control and at times, hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.
- Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature. 
- I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
- What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
- It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
- Suicide is a person’s privilege. I don’t believe it’s a sin or a crime. It’s your right if you want to, though it doesn’t get you anywhere.
