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Thursday, November 13, 2014
Singer Marc Anthony weds model at Dominican resort Associated Press
S A N TO D O M I N G O — G r a m m y winning salsa singer Marc Anthony has married his Venezuelan model girlfriend at a seaside resort in the Dominican Republic. The 46-year-old New York-born singer of Puerto Rican roots tied the knot with 26-yearold Shannon de Lima at a Tuesday ceremony at his residence in the exclusive Dominican resort of Casa de Campo.
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Marilyn Monroe’s lost love letters to be auctioned BEVERLY HILLS — It’s no secret baseball legend Joe DiMaggio loved Marilyn Monroe. The famed New York Yankee cried at her funeral and for 20 years had flowers placed at her crypt several times a week. The public displays were unusual for the famously stoic and private DiMaggio. Now, his heartbreak over the breakup of one of the most sensational marriages in American history will get a rare public airing when “Marilyn Monroe’s Lost Archives” goes up for
bid at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills next month. “I love you and want to be with you,” DiMaggio said in one pained letter to Monroe from the collection, written when she announced she was filing for divorce after a matter of months in 1954. “There is
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In this June 2, 1955 file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe, right, dressed in a glamorous evening gown, arrives with Joe DiMaggio at the theater.
nothing I would like better than to restore your confidence in me.” The 300 items also include love letters from Monroe’s third and final husband, playwright Arthur Miller. There’s also a handwritten letter from Monroe to Miller in which the woman who was arguably Hollywood’s greatest sex symbol muses about her many insecurities. DiMaggio wrote in his letter that he learned Monroe was leaving him when he saw her make the announcement on television. “My heart split even wider seeing you cry in front of all these people,” he wrote in the letter addressed to “Mrs. Joe DiMaggio” and mailed special delivery. Other letters in the collection come from such friends as actors Clark Gable, Cary Grant and Jane Russell, the latter imploring Monroe in 10 neatly handwritten pages to give her marriage to DiMaggio another chance. “It really gives you the chills when you read some of the stuff and see the intimacy and the personal nature of it,” said auction curator Martin Nolan, who spent nine months organizing and cataloging the collection. Auction owner Darren Julien estimates the pieces could fetch $1 million or more, noting a watercolor Monroe painted and planned to give
to President John Kennedy went for $80,000 at an estate auction nine years ago. Monroe’s “collectability” has skyrocketed in recent years, driven in part by deep-pocketed Asian and European collectors with a fondness for American popculture artifacts, he said. The fact that the centerpiece of this collection is not just celebrity tchotchkes but deeply personal artifacts is also expected to fuel interest. “We anticipate a lot of fans will be here. They’ll fly in from all over the world,” said Julien, who will put the items on display to the public at his Beverly Hills gallery for four days before they go on the block Dec. 5-6. Monroe, who died of a drug overdose at age 36 in 1962, willed “The Lost Archives” to her mentor, the legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg. He gave it to a friend he trusted would take proper care. That friend’s family, which Julien said wants to remain anonymous, obviously met Strasberg’s expectations. Many of the letters look as pristine as the day their authors wrote them. “Please, if I’ve ever made you cry or made you even more sadder, ever for a second, please forgive me, my perfect girl. I love you,” Miller wrote in a pencil-scribbled P.S. at the bottom of a typewritten letter. In a reply to one of his missives,
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A few weeks ago, Anthony wrote on his Instagram account that a “surprise” was in store, posting a photo of the couple walking together. This is the third marriage for Anthony, who has six children from previous relationships. He split in 2011 from pop singer and actress Jennifer Lopez. Anthony is also an actor, appearing in TV and films. He starred with Lopez in the 2007 film “El Cantante,” about the life of salsa pioneer Hector Lavoe.
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Tour operators laud visa-free facility for Russian tourists Antara
DENPASAR - Bali’s tourism operators have welcomed the government’s decision to provide visa-free facility to the Russian tourists visiting the resort province, stated Bali tourism observer Made Sudana. “The granting of the facility must be coupled with the opening of more flights between Indonesia and Russia, so that the number of Russian tourists to Bali will increase,” Sudana, who is also a
tourism operator, remarked on Wednesday. He pointed out that it was difficult to expect more visits of Russian tourists unless the number of flights is increased. So far, Rus-
sian tourists had faced problems in visiting Bali as there were no regular flights from their country to Bali. According to Made, generally affluent Russian tourists boarded a chartered plane to visit Bali as there is no regular flight, so far, from Indonesia to Russia, let alone from Bali. Commonly, tourists coming from Russia belong to the upper class and often stay in luxury hotels in the Nusa Dua and Jimbaran
areas. They arrive in a chartered plane, he asserted. Made noted that Russian tourists usually come to holiday in Bali at the beginning of the year. But, the number of Russian tourists has been declining of late. “Almost every month this year, the number of Russian tourists continues to drop,” he remarked. Based on data from Bali’s Tourism Service, the number of Russian tourists visiting Bali over
the last nine months dropped 7.52 percent from 60,064 in JanuarySeptember 2013 to 55,545. Continued on page 6 Bali’s tourism operators have welcomed the government’s decision to provide visa-free facility to the Russian tourists visiting the resort province, stated Bali tourism observer Made Sudana.
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This Friday, Nov. 7, 2014 photo shows part of a three-page handwritten letter and original envelope postmarked Oct. 9, 1954 from baseball legend Joe DiMaggio to Marilyn Monroe on display at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Monroe takes issue with what the author of “Death of a Salesman” had called her nobility in handling a difficult childhood followed by public adulation that nearly crushed her. “In other words, there was no choice to make, the same road was always before me,” she wrote. “So for you to speak of my nobility, it really wasn’t so noble.” She went on to say: “It’s doubly difficult to understand that you, the most different, most beautiful human being, chose me to love.”
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