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Misty Rowe as Norma Jean.

Bumpy way to fame

for 'Norma Jean'

By Donna Chernin

The producers of "Goodbye, Norma Jean" are really missing out.

This R-rated movie has the makings of a super skin flick.

Billed as the "true story" of Marilyn Monroe's struggles in her early with career, the film abounds in early every conceivable sexual perversion.

Just think of the gold mine there for the digging, if only this had been an X-rated porno film

Poor Norma Jean! She is depicted as having been a pitiful, put upon soul, a voluptuous childwoman is perpetually lusted after by lascivious creatures. A female. agent rightly warns Norma Jean that the adventures awaiting her will approach the "perils of Pau line" in the depths of their degradation.

Everyone tries to abuse this star-struck woman, who is SO trusting and so naive that she at first falls into their snares.

> It is sad enough that Norma Jean is cast initially into the world an orphan, worse that she is the victim of a dirty old man's voyeuristic pursuits.

But how utterly horrible when she is raped by a policeman and later subjected to a little sadomasochism at the hands of three. slimy con men.

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Even that does not complete the list of deviates pouncing upon this hapless waif. Before the film concludes and the star Marilyn Monroe is born, Norma Jean must undergo the humiliation of acting in a nudie film and making out with a lesbian. There are even 1, tinges of necrophilia thrown in for y good measure.

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Misty Rowe, a well endowed lass (actress is too strong a description), portrays Norma Jean with her eyes all adew and her 1voice coated with candy. The only

In Review

'Goodbye, Norma Jean'

Produced and directed by Larry Buchanan, screenplay by him and Lynn Shubert Adult. Stirling Gold presentation.

Starring Misty Rowe, Terrence Locke and Patch MacKenzie.

half-way credible performance comes from her boyfriend, (the only sexually "normal" character in the film) who vaguely resembles a young version of James Stewart.

Today's market is glutted with various theories on Marilyn Monroe's life, her loves and her early demise.

But if this film paints the truth and if all these evil people truly did take advantage of young Norma Jean then the real mystery is not whether the star committed suicide or not, but why, for goodness sake, she didn't snuff out

her miserable life sooner.

Another vexating point which glaringly strikes outs in this amateurish film is its basic contention that people were forever exploiting Norma Jean. This may have been so..

However, the makers of "Goodbye, Norma Jean" are just as guilty as those they condemn, for what have they tried to do, if not make money off Marilyn's dead

bones?

If only we would do what the title of this film suggests, and say "Goodbye, Norma Jean" once and for all.