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- PEOPLE, Page 71Marketing Marilyn
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- By MICHAEL QUINN
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- Had she lived, MARILYN MONROE would now be a sensual 66 --
- but certainly not the celluloid icon she became following her
- death from an apparent drug overdose 30 years ago this week.
- Inspired by the grim anniversary, the industries of celebrity
- seem more determined than ever to make a killing off Marilyn.
- The Roger Richman Agency, which handles licensing for Monroe's
- estate, receives 20 inquiries a week from would-be Marilyn
- marketers. "We have a line of Marilyn Monroe eyewear," says
- Richman. "Limited-edition dolls. Collector's plates. Calendars.
- Posters." A U.S. vintner offers Marilyn Monroe wines, with the
- substance-abusing star on the label. Among the products Richman
- rejected: mail-order roses nabbed from Monroe's tomb. Feminine
- napkins. And the nadir -- "I denied permission to a Japanese
- company to sell toilet paper with a picture of Marilyn Monroe
- on every sheet."
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