Mind if I Brush?

Esquire Magazine has begun arriving in my mailbox, and I am usually impressed with their ribald mixture of anecdotes, intriguing photos and plain common sense. In this month's Seven Most Remarkable Things about Culture, they included this tale about the world's most famous blond.

"She was wearing a diaphanous, totally see-through black negligee, her feet were bare and she was holding a hairbrush in her hand. In a few minutes the interviewer arrived,and...Marilyn asked the woman if she minded if she brushed her hair. "Of course not," the woman replied, and when she looked up, Marilyn was brushing her pubic hair."

From Marilyn Monroe, photographer Eve Arnold's visual and anecdotal account of her experiences photographing the actress.