I only have secondary data to go by on what the life of Marilyn Monroe might have looked like. A recent biographical movie titled 'My week with Marilyn' depicts the apparently true story of a rich kid trying to get in the movie business and crossing paths with Marilyn over a week in England.
As to the kind of person, published literature makes her appear to be a dumb vamp, fairly successful in the superficial ways - after all she dated / hung out with the First Dude. I am not sure what quality of hers was exactly endearing but clearly certain famous individuals were taken by her.
Movie shows her on set with Laurence Olivier and portrays her as a manipulative, drugged dimwit (quite the oxymoron) and the way guys swooned at her feet. Her real life pictures hardly define her as 'pretty' but Hollywood went pretty gaga and so did millions of paying audiences.
To this day I see evidence that girls that are considered pretty (superficially) do not carry heavy bags or open doors or wait for a bus. They seem to find enough dolts willing to bestow assistance in the hope of spending some time with them.
In conclusion the term 'dumb blonde' is ironic since the only dumb ones around are the ones that cater to the former, and there is a long line waiting their turn.
Since I ended up multitasking during the screening (free DVD rental was the saving grace) of this idiotic tale I guess I only spent 70 minutes of my life with her?
This time for a tech conference in the realm of what else? AI. But applied to an oft neglected space called Knowledge Management. The latter is a community of practice that focuses on analyzing, organizing and making available reams of data that have been gathered over time by various functions within an organization for anyone in the company to utilize. This function or process is ripe for applying AI agents (or agentic AI framework) and optimize for better outcomes. It was informative. More rewarding was getting acquainted with folks who practice this craft as well as learning of what they see in the corporate or public sectors. Since the venue was Washington DC it also afforded me the chance to take evening strolls albeit the weather was trying. With wind chill in the single digit it still is a glamorous place to perambulate through history absorbing what this country has been through since its founding days. I was able to visit the place Lincoln was killed along with his monument t...
It's like your CV, I guess. You can add a line as an achievement, by doing something which has a 'perception value' among the target audience. A date with Marilyn or Katrina would rate very high in certain quarters.
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