Nobody's Perfect

Expository Writing

Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot

We watched Some Like It Hot this week. It takes a while getting started, but as soon as the guys appear in their female disguises, it takes off and never stops. When Tony Curtis adopts his second disguise, as an oil tycoon, he does an impression of Cary Grant. It'll be interesting to see if anyone in the class picked up on that. I'll bet at least a couple of students did. I'll also be interested to hear what they made of the movie's famous final line. ("Nobody's perfect.") And then, of course, there's Marilyn Monroe. Will they see what made her an icon?

Marilyn Lives?

So this was kind of surprising: I showed Some Like It Hot to my Film Comedy class last week and they loved it. That's not the surprising part. The surprising part is that, even so, they're not so crazy about Marilyn Monroe. One student even said he found her annoying. Maybe her charm doesn't transfer to the millennial generation or something. This week, we watched another Marilyn film, The Seven Year Itch. Will they like her better in color? Guess I'll see next week.

The Marilyns

Somebody once said that for Elvis, dying was a good career move. Same with Marilyn Monroe. Has she ever been bigger? In my Film Comedy class, we'll be seeing two Marilyn films over the next two weeks: Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch. This week, I told the class that there's a new NBC show called Smash about creating a Broadway musical about Marilyn. The class, of course, already knew about it. Plus there's also the film My Week With Marilyn in theaters now. On Smash last night, a character was watching Some Like It Hot on a computer. Next week, I'll ask if the class noticed that.