My conviction is she bored the hell out of everybody. She just didn’t have the intelligence, but she was aware she didn’t have it. When she married Arthur Miller—now, this is pure speculation—my guess is that she just wasn’t interesting enough for Miller. Nobody finds it very difficult to talk before you get into the hay, but what do you say afterwards? Marilyn was like a child. She thought that a lay was the complete answer to everything. When Miller began to indicate that he was no longer devoted to her, she went out and had an affair. In each case, she thought that the solution was to make
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