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疑似梦露性爱短片拍卖遇冷
Alleged Marilyn Monroe sex film gets no buyers

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疑似梦露性爱短片拍卖遇冷

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)

上周日,上世纪40年代的一部性爱影片公开拍卖,活动发起人声称这是未成年的玛丽莲•梦露成名前所拍的性爱影片,然而此项拍卖未能成交。

拍卖会遭遇惨败,没人愿意支付迈克尔•巴萨提出的200万阿根廷比索(约合48万美元)的起价。

媒体此前援引梦露遗产公司的一位女发言人的话说,这次拍卖是场彻头彻尾的骗局。巴萨称,拍卖失败并不能证明这一点。

巴萨说:“我不感到奇怪。南希•卡尔逊最近发表的声明搞砸了一切。” 女发言人南希•卡尔逊所在的公司负责管理保护梦露的形象和遗产。

巴萨称,他还在与一位身份不明的丹佛买家协商,该买家所出的价格远低于公平价格。但他还表示,由于梦露的遗产公司警告说如果这笔买卖最终成交,他们将提起诉讼,他的律师正在研究此事。

巴萨在拍卖前称,这部画质粗糙的8毫米版本黑白短片长6分钟,大约摄于1946年或1947年,当时名为诺玛•珍•贝克的年轻女演员梦露仍穷困潦倒,不顾一切想闯进演艺圈。

然而,梦露生平的研究专家们说,影片中那个微笑的年轻金发女郎极不可能为梦露本人。

将这部影片与为世人所熟知的梦露形象相对比,也留下许多疑问。而巴萨提到的可以证明他观点的若干份文件不够有说服力,包括一封美国电影学院的信,以及一份疑似联邦调查局的解密文件,其中提到1965年有人出售据称是梦露拍摄的性爱短片。

梦露的形象和遗产一直受品牌发展及许可公司“正宗品牌公司”保护。该公司女发言人卡尔逊说,如果有人出售该影片,他们将起诉,控告其“欺诈大众,侵犯梦露遗产公司的形象专属权及其它知识产权。”

卡尔逊说:“我个人觉得,根本连像都不像。”

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(中国日报网英语点津 实习生沈清 编辑:Julie)

Vocabulary:

stag film: slang for pornographic movie(性爱影片)

underage: below the customary or legal age(未成年的,未到法定年龄的)

flop: to fail utterly(失败,惨败)

go through: to be approved or accepted(法律、合同等正式通过,接受,达成)

scratchy: 凌乱的,潦草的

 
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