by Marion Plouet

Created on: May 25, 2007   Last Updated: June 11, 2009

If I had one hour with a human being, it would have to be the person I admired since I was a child, Marylin Monroe.
What I'd really like is to finally have an answer regarding her death, did she comit suicide, was she killed... be able to put a final answer to the mystery, as arguably some insist that she most probably was killed.

I would also like to discuss what the life of a legend was like. Think about it, she was an icon, not necessarily loved by all, but nevertheless an icon. I would try to let her know about the life of stars nowadays, all the paparazzi, gossip, and see if it was easier at the time, see how she would feel about how easy it is today to access anyone's, or so, private life. How she thinks she could deal with this was she to live in this century.

But mainly, thinking about my childhood, and I remember the first time I saw her on TV, I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. So beautiful, somehow I believed she was a robot, an android, the perfect woman. I think it took me some time then to realise that she had been a real person, that she was dead, anyway, from then on she became one of my idols.Growing up, I saw the other side of the fairytale. Growing up in an orphanage and in foster homes, the weddings, heart breaks, the reputation... and I realised that however beautiful I wanted to be, or rather hoped I could be, beauty, and money with that, we not necessarily making anyone's happiness. So, I would ask her if she was happy, and what her reaction would be if someone was to ask, given the choice, would you re-live your life the way you did, or would you make other choices. Is being an icon, and a sex symbol as enjoyable as people want to believe, or is it as lonely and hypocritical as I imagine it can be?

I might need two hours though, because of course I would also have questions about all the films, and the people she met. What playing this or that role meant, if there was a character that she really enjoyed performing. I would ask about her marriages, the affairs, well yes, I can be very nosy, but when there is so much that you have always wanted to know about somehow, especially someone you know you can never get the answers from, you would ask everything.

There is another person now that I would also want to spend an hour with, and that would be my grand father, who died 2 years ago. I would want to tell him is how much I love him and miss him. And the rest of the hour would be just about the fun time spent with him always was, a last hour I was not given to spend with him before he died, not being told that he was sick. Thinking about it, I believe I would chose him in the end. I miss you Papy!

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