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“Happy Birthday, Mr. President “
The infamous footage of Marilyn Monroe’s performance of sing-whispering “Happy Birthday” to John F Kennedy in 1962 at Madison Square Garden breaks my heart. You can see in grainy film and candid stills Marilyn the human being devoured by Marilyn the idea. She would be dead 2 months later, yet the cultural dialogue about this iconic moment is rarely about the sick, frail, and worn down human being alone on that bright global stage. What do you ‘remember’?