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    ENCOUNTERS

    Sep 01, 2022 5 minutes
    By Jonathan Wright and Rhiannon Davies

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    Culzean Castle, South Ayrshire

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    Belgrade, Serbia

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    Abiding fascination

    Marilyn Monroe continues to fascinate us. Earlier this year, Andy Warhol’s silk-screen portrait, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, sold for $195m, the highest price ever paid for a work of 20th-century art. This spectacular auction followed on shortly from Kim Kardashian being widely criticised for attending the Met Gala wearing the dress Monroe wore when serenading John F Kennedy on his birthday.

    In a year of such Marilyn-related news stories, a new biopic of the star might not seem such a big deal, but the latest offering from Australian director Andrew Dominik may yet prove otherwise. His based on Joyce Carol Oates’s bestselling

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