tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post7548163512558102143..comments2024-03-22T19:13:05.266-04:00Comments on The Dusty Bookcase: Bottoms Up, Shy PhotographerBrian Busbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-89906957405716162042011-07-11T11:42:24.466-04:002011-07-11T11:42:24.466-04:00Should've mentioned the Marilyn Monroe connect...Should've mentioned the Marilyn Monroe connection (there's a bit more in <a href="http://brianbusby.blogspot.com/2009/02/canadas-olympians-part-four.html" rel="nofollow">this early post</a>). Thanks for reminding me.<br /><br />What I find peculiar about Angus Carroll's story is that the published version contains no sex. The most one can say, is that there are dashes of mildly dirty talk here and there. More spice, please!Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-58576946093250328292011-07-11T11:10:38.051-04:002011-07-11T11:10:38.051-04:00Angus Carroll, the author's son, provided the ...Angus Carroll, the author's son, provided the following to Patrick Kearney (from PJK's note to Bottom's Up in his full-descriptive bibliography):<br /><br />"The heroine...is based on Marilyn Monroe. Carroll, a photojournalist, had met Monroe on the set of the movie Niagra in 1952. Unable to get the book published in Canada or the U.S., Carroll turned to Girodias as a last resort. Unlike most North American publishers who thought it had too much sex in it, Girodias didn't think it had enough. He asked Carroll to spice it up, which he did...Falling for Marilyn, a book of photographs Carroll took of Monroe in 1952, appeared posthumously in 1996."Stephen J. Gertzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369781936876020975noreply@blogger.com