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So, where are her ashes....in a classy, Jewish columbarium, or does Melissa have them?

Enquiring minds want to know.......

Well, the only thing I can think-of, regarding that, is....

They put-out a red carpet at her funeral, and said it would be buried with her----but, I can't remember where they said she was gonna be buried.

Actually, she was cremated at least a day before that service at the Temple, so I don't know what they meant about that carpet. There are photos of Melissa and her son following the casket as it was placed in a hearse; she kissed the casket before the doors were shut and it went directly to the crematorium.


Did you know that the marble front of of Marilyn Monroe's tomb has been replaced at least three times?


The staff at Westwood Cemetery cleans all the lipstick prints off every evening, then people

visit her next day, they clean again, and finally the staining requires replacement of the stone.

Hope she knows that she is still cared about.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was fabulous----or, should I say "Norma Jean". Have you read all the stuff about how very smart / intelligent she was? She created "Marilyn Monroe". I can't think who gave her the name, but SHE created the persona.

Have you seen photos of the inside of her house?

She had basically NO furniture; there was something very strange going on with her money!

And that housekeeper, Eunice....Marilyn could not stand her, and had fired her; she had simply not left by the time she died.

She was buried in a green Pucci sheath dress, which Eunice told the mortuary was Marilyn's favorite.

She never had genuine jewelry, only the Mikimoto pearl necklace that Joe DiMaggio gave her, and the platinum and diamond eternity band which was her wedding band.

I never understood why he had not had her buried wearing it.....he still loved her.

There's been a Godzilla movie for every tenth anniversary of the character:

1954: Godzilla
1964: Mothra vs. Godzilla and Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster
1974: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
1984: Godzilla (aka The Return of Godzilla aka Godzilla 1985)
1994: Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
2004: Godzilla: Final Wars
2014: Godzilla

Also, the biggest gap between films was ten years, 2004 to 2014, the previous record holder being the nine-year gap between 1975 and 1984.

Either that, or the Big Guy will finally be ready to really give Tokyo that long-awaited visit.

I won't be surprised at all if there's a 70th anniversary movie in 2024, although the fact that there's been a movie for every tenth anniversary seems to have happened more by coincidence than by planning. The only one that was really intended to be an anniversary movie was Final Wars for the 50th. (Godzilla vs. Destroyer was sort of intended to be a 40th anniversary movie, but it was released a year too late in 1995.) Anyway, the next American movie is scheduled for 2018, and nobody really knows what the Japanese are planning.

And here's some more trivia for you: canceled/recycled ideas for Godzilla movies:

1964: Frankenstein vs. Godzilla. This one actually evolved into Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965), in which a giant Frankenstein's monster fights a new monster named Baragon (who would later show up in Godzilla movies) instead of Godzilla.

1966: Godzilla vs. Batman. After the success of King Kong vs. Godzilla in 1962, they were apparently looking for another big crossover. This ludicrous idea never happened, but elements of the script were used a year later in Son of Godzilla.

1989: Godzilla 2, a sequel to the 1984 Godzilla in which Godzilla would have fought some kind of supercomputer. The script was rewritten into a movie without Godzilla called Gunhed, and the Godzilla 2 that actually got made was Godzilla vs. Biollante, in which he fights a weird hybrid of himself and a venus flytrap sort of plant.

1995: Godzilla vs. Godzilla aka Godzilla vs. Ghost Godzilla. In this one, the current Godzilla would have fought the ghost of the very first Godzilla from 1954. The idea was abandoned because Godzilla had fought monsters based on himself in the previous two movies (Mechagodzilla and SpaceGodzilla). He instead fought Destroyer, a new monster created from the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the 1954 Godzilla. The idea of the new Godzilla fighting the 1954 original was eventually used in 2002's Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, in which Mechagodzilla is built around the skeleton of the 1954 Godzilla, which still contains his conscious soul.

Marilyn's half sister went to the house to pick out a dress for the burial and Eunice told her ( and the mortuary employee who accompanied them) that the Pucci sheath was Marilyn's favorite.

There are pictures of Marilyn doing a press conference about six months earlier, wearing the dress.

In the picture of Marilyn with her little white dog on her lap, she is wearing the dress.

After her death, the dog was given to Frank Sinatra's secretary....Sinatra had bought her the dog.

I think I did read that the psychiatrist hired Eunice, and that Marilyn felt spied upon.

Carlito's Way is based on a novel titled After Hours, which was a sequel to a novel titled Carlito's Way. The film took the title of the first novel because there had been a popular unrelated film titled After Hours released eight years earlier.

Loved 'Carlito's Way'......one of Viggo Mortensen's best performances!

Nicholas Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, wanted to call the film Star Trek II: The Undiscovered Country. The studio forced him to change the subtitle, but he got to use his preferred title when he directed Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Nichelle Nichols despised William Shatner.

Years after the series ended, she had the opportunity to tell him so.

She did.

The original plan for Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man was to have Lon Chaney Jr. play both characters. He had played the Wolf Man two years earlier in The Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster one year earlier in The Ghost of Frankenstein. The idea was abandoned and Chaney played the Wolf Man while Frankenstein's monster was played by Bela Lugosi, who had turned down the role twelve years earlier (it was accepted by Boris Karloff, who was replaced by Chaney after three films).