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Tara Hanks
@marina72.bsky.social
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Author of 2 novels (Wicked Baby and The Mmm Girl), Jeanne Eagels biographer, blogs at The Marilyn Report. https://linktr.ee/tarahankswriter
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · Sep 17
My actual age
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 6h
a man in a red shirt and a black jacket is walking down the street
Alt: John Travolta walking down the street in Saturday Night Fever
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 10h
Shipwrecked on Terf Island was the last I heard of him.
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 1d
#MarilynMonroe
Cinematic Showgirls: Marilyn and Taylor Swift
Ever since Taylor Swift announced her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, comparisons to glamorous stars of the past have abounded. Released last week, the album is currently available in eleven ver…
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 2d
She was working in a sweet shop near where I grew up when this took off (I had to check Wikipedia to be sure it wasn't a fever dream.)
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 2d
This is my idea of fun
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 2d
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 2d
"If he always keeps you dreaming
You won't have a lonely hour ..."
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 2d
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 189:
There are many different ways to be a writer. Being a professional writer is only one of them. All are valid.
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 5d
Occasionally I check up on Britney's Insta just to make sure she's still doing whatever the hell she wants
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 5d
Le weekend
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#goals
L'amour L'après Midi' (1972) dir: Éric Rohmer Chloe smoking a cigarette looking pensive sayini expect nothing from life
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 5d
#MarilynMonroe
Marilyn’s Long Goodbye in ‘Yours Retro’
Marilyn is featured in the September 2025 issue of UK nostalgia magazine Yours Retro (#91, with Steve McQueen on the cover), as part of ‘A Final Farewell,’ a 3-page feature looking back…
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 6d
Make fascism twee again
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 6d
I would simply watch One Battle After Another twice more
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 6d
Live from the Riyadh Comedy Festival
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 8d
‘Forget it, Jake. It’s the Riyadh Comedy Festival.’
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 8d
My September reading. Highlights: The Land in Winter, Havoc #BookSky
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller Look at You: A Novel in Stories by Amanda Smyth Fonseca by Jessica Francis Kane Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy Amity by Nathan Harris Havoc by Rebecca Wait
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 8d
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Angels of Pop: Marilyn and Rosalyn Drexler
Rosalyn Drexler, a pioneer of the Pop Art movement – and one of the first women to paint Marilyn Monroe – has died aged 98.
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Thomas Pynchon @tompynchon.bsky.social · 8d
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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon review – his first novel in 12 years tunes into rising fascism in the US
The 88-year-old’s jaunty whodunnit, set during the prohibition era, features clowns, Nazis and a missing cheese heiress
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idca @idca.bsky.social · 9d
counterpoint: no it's not
headline: "The UK’s summer of Oasis is over – but the unity and euphoria it created is unforgettable Emma Garland"
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 9d
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The (Not So) Private Marilyn on Parade
The Private Marilyn was first published in the US by Parade magazine as part of their American Icons series in 2015. It was reissued in 2017, and a third reprint is now available, with some online …
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Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 9d
What have future generations ever done for us? Nothing. They're so lazy they don't even exist.
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Jack Kibble-White @jackkibble-white.bsky.social · 10d
An excellent article in today’s edition of The Observer that tees up The History Podcast: The Magnificent O’Connors. On air on Radio 4 this Wednesday at 09:30am with all episodes published on BBC Sounds on the same day

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‘I’ve spent my life fighting for justice. This is my most...
Nemone Lethbridge was a pioneering barrister – until she married a man convicted of murder. Now, at 93, she is determined to clear his name
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 10d
Transgression=creativity
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 10d
Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.
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Tara Hanks @marina72.bsky.social · 10d
It's kind of messy and imperfect, but a hell of a ride.
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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 10d
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