Review of Andrew Dominik's 'Blonde'

No corpse has been picked over more than Marilyn Monroe’s. In the sixty years since her death, in 1962—at age thirty-six, an apparent suicide—the screen legend has been the subject of not just scores of books and movies but also plays and operas. “Monroe was an infinity of character and mystery that was impossible for me, or anyone else, to explore, because it was so vast. There is always more and more and more,” in the words of Maurice Zolotow, the first of her legions of biographers (who also include Norman Mailer and Gloria Steinem).