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An employee of Butterfields auction house displays a copy of a model release signed by Marilyn Monroe in front of one of the photographs of Monroe during a Hollywood photo shoot in 1949, in Los Angeles, March 22, 2001.(Agencies) |
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There were no buyers Sunday at the auction of a 1940s stag film that an events promoter claims shows an underage Marilyn Monroe having sex before she became a movie star. The auction was a flop. Nobody came forward willing to pay Mikel Barsa's starting price of 2 million Argentine pesos, about $480,000. Barsa said it didn't help matters that a spokeswoman for Monroe's estate was quoted in an interview calling the whole thing a fraud. "It doesn't surprise me. The latest statements of Nancy Carlson didn't do anything good for all this," Barsa said, referring to the spokeswoman for a company in charge of protecting Monroe's image and estate. Barsa said he was still negotiating with an unidentified buyer from Denver whom he said was offering much less than a fair price. But he also said his lawyers were reviewing the matter now that Monroe's protectors warned they would sue him if the sale went through. Barsa claimed before the auction that the scratchy, black-and-white, six-minute 8-mm film shows the young actress, known then as Norma Jeane Baker, around 1946 or 1947 when she was poor and desperate to break into show business. Experts on Monroe's life, however, said it's highly unlikely that the smiling young blonde in the film is her. Comparing the film with known Monroe images leaves ample room for doubt. And several documents Barsa said proved his argument — a letter from the American Film Institute and what looks like a declassified FBI file that mentions a 1965 attempt to sell an alleged Marilyn Monroe sex film — are inconclusive. Monroe's image and estate is protected by the brand development and licensing company Authentic Brands Group. Its spokeswoman, Carlson, said a sale of the film would invite legal action for "perpetrating a fraud on the public, violating the Monroe estate's exclusive rights to her image and other claims of intellectual property infringement." "To me personally, it doesn't even resemble her," Carlson said. (Read by Renee Haines. Renee Haines is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies)
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上周日，上世紀40年代的一部性愛影片公開拍賣，活動發(fā)起人聲稱這是未成年的瑪麗蓮?夢露成名前所拍的性愛影片，然而此項拍賣未能成交。 拍賣會遭遇慘敗，沒人愿意支付邁克爾?巴薩提出的200萬阿根廷比索（約合48萬美元）的起價。 媒體此前援引夢露遺產公司的一位女發(fā)言人的話說，這次拍賣是場徹頭徹尾的騙局。巴薩稱，拍賣失敗并不能證明這一點。 巴薩說：“我不感到奇怪。南希?卡爾遜最近發(fā)表的聲明搞砸了一切?！?女發(fā)言人南希?卡爾遜所在的公司負責管理保護夢露的形象和遺產。 巴薩稱，他還在與一位身份不明的丹佛買家協(xié)商，該買家所出的價格遠低于公平價格。但他還表示，由于夢露的遺產公司警告說如果這筆買賣最終成交，他們將提起訴訟，他的律師正在研究此事。 巴薩在拍賣前稱，這部畫質粗糙的8毫米版本黑白短片長6分鐘，大約攝于1946年或1947年，當時名為諾瑪?珍?貝克的年輕女演員夢露仍窮困潦倒，不顧一切想闖進演藝圈。 然而，夢露生平的研究專家們說，影片中那個微笑的年輕金發(fā)女郎極不可能為夢露本人。 將這部影片與為世人所熟知的夢露形象相對比，也留下許多疑問。而巴薩提到的可以證明他觀點的若干份文件不夠有說服力，包括一封美國電影學院的信，以及一份疑似聯(lián)邦調查局的解密文件，其中提到1965年有人出售據稱是夢露拍攝的性愛短片。 夢露的形象和遺產一直受品牌發(fā)展及許可公司“正宗品牌公司”保護。該公司女發(fā)言人卡爾遜說，如果有人出售該影片，他們將起訴，控告其“欺詐大眾，侵犯夢露遺產公司的形象專屬權及其它知識產權?！?/p> 卡爾遜說：“我個人覺得，根本連像都不像。” 相關閱讀 （中國日報網英語點津 實習生沈清 編輯：Julie） |
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Vocabulary: stag film: slang for pornographic movie（性愛影片） underage: below the customary or legal age（未成年的，未到法定年齡的） flop: to fail utterly（失敗，慘?。?/p> go through: to be approved or accepted（法律、合同等正式通過，接受，達成） scratchy: 凌亂的，潦草的 |
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