‘Making Marilyn’: ‘An Actor Is Someone Who Does Things. An Actress Has Things Done To Her’

Julie Burchill on her new play about the iconic blonde, which is about to open at Brighton Palace Pier outside London.

Ed Feingersh via Wikimedia Commons
Marilyn Monroe in 1955. Ed Feingersh via Wikimedia Commons

In the United Kingdom, use of the word “iconic” has become utterly unreasonable. Once it meant a religious portrait; now the Cambridge Dictionary defines it as meaning “very famous or popular” and it brought me 1,680,000,000 results on Google including “iconic window cleaning” and “iconic sausage rolls.”

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