Adjectives

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• ideal
• curvy
• plastic surgery
• skinny

• voluptuous
• icon
• idol
• bombshell

• refreshing
• knockout

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The beauty mark. The platinum blonde hair. The voluptuous curves. Fifty years ago, Marilyn Monroe was the beauty icon. Now, the new film My Week with Marilyn tells one of the lesser-known stories from her famous life. In the film, a young assistant on one of her movies helps her escape her stressful life in Hollywood for one week, during a trip through the English countryside. Hear Dale and Amy talk about the film and our changing ideas about beauty.

Dialog

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Amy

Dale

Amy:  I just saw that movie My Week with Marilyn, Dale, have you heard anything about it?

Dale:  Not yet. Tell me more about it.

Amy:  Well, you know, it’s a true story. And it is about this young guy who’s working as an assistant on a movie that Laurence Olivier, the famous British actor, made with Marilyn Monroe.

Dale:  So the story is about Marilyn Monroe, the beautiful idol from the ‘50s and ‘60s, I believe.

Amy:  Exactly, yeah. So you think that Marilyn Monroe was a total bombshell?

Dale:  Oh, she was a total knockout. She was, to me, the ideal woman.

Amy:  She definitely was the number one iconic beauty of her time. But it just made me think a little bit about how our ideas about what’s beautiful have changed a little bit in the last 50 years. Like she was very voluptuous, curvy.

Dale:  And she was natural. She was very natural.

Amy:  Yeah, no plastic surgery, right?

Dale:  Compared to right now, you don’t know if people have done Botox or have done any kind of plastic surgery.

Amy:  It’s just kind of interesting, you know, like throughout time I guess our standards of beauty are always changing, but it seems like these days, like you said, plastic surgery is so common. It’s like everybody in Hollywood, it seems like, is just perfect looking and so skinny. So, it was pretty refreshing to see this movie, and to be reminded of her.

 

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