Korda does not buy fashionable conspiracy theories surrounding Monroe’s death, although he does place Bobby Kennedy in Monroe’s home right before she dies. Unfolding on the side is a subplot about the mob and Jimmy Hoffa. After she has the abortion Bobby demands, Monroe slips into a deep depression and eventually overdoses. Pretty soon she’s pregnant, supposedly with Bobby Kennedy’s baby. JFK sends his baby brother Bobby to deliver the bad news, and before Bobby can say “Ethel” he winds up in the sack with Monroe too. In “The Immortals,” Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe carry on a passionate affair from 1954 to 1961, with the Prez dumping the Movie Star once he gets to the White House. It will be interesting to see Madonna - who does have talent and who I think is very bright and very sharp and very much her own person - portray somebody in her own way as opposed to the miniseries way of portraying Jack Kennedy or Marilyn, where you basically get people who plod through as lookalikes.” “Madonna is going to be Madonna whether she plays Marilyn or not. “I think it will be fascinating,” he says. Korda likes the idea of Madonna as Marilyn. (Gossip columnist Liz Smith says Madonna has been reading “The Immortals” to see if she’s interested in portraying the legend she’s often compared to.)
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