Ikony kina. Monroe

''Forget everything you think you know about this person,'' Elia Kazan cautioned, in his autobiography. The icon we cherish under thename Marilyn Monroe was in truth the inspired creation of a smart, voluptuous, star struck and self-motivated fantasist named NormaJean Mortenson. A pure product of Hollywood, she abides across time as brightly as two other self-inventors, Charlie Chaplin and Cary Grant. Few things make an afterlife blaze more mythically than a sexual reputation?ask Cleopatra. Norma Jean paid a huge price tobecome Marilyn, yet here she is?still setting the bar high for all other would-be goddesses.