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Show iiSPW byRickDrough B .. - . mJr M m m " Enquire-ing minds should know the facts about Monroe As I write this, President Ronald Reagan is meeting with Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva. And as the world looks on, it asks the question what happened happen-ed on the night Marilyn Monroe died? An increasing body of research is being devoted to that night, more than 20 years ago, when the '50s sexpot passed pass-ed away. For instance, a recent series in the Salt Lake Tribune carried one author's speculations on the question. ques-tion. Last week in Prospector Square, a national convention of Monrologists gathered to exchange and discuss theories about the death of Marilyn. Much of their research has been financed by leading scientific journals jour-nals such as the National Enquirer, the National Midnight Mid-night Star, the Globe and the News of the .World. Whaddyaknow sat down with the group's president, Dr. Mort Necro, who said his colleagues have been able to boil down all their ideas into a single coherent account of the night Monroe died: The '50s were dominated by Marlyn Monroe's stardom, star-dom, but offscreen, her personal life was dogged by tragedy. She had trouble in her relationships with men. Her passionate friendship with James Dean showed as much promise as the young actor's film career. Jimmy was conservative by nature, but Marilyn urged him to take more chances. When he acquired a small roadster, she teased, "I bet you can't push that thing up to 90." As it turned out, he could. Now, Marilyn lay in bed in her bungalow on a summer's sum-mer's night in 1962. Her affair with John Kennedy had been over for a year. Bobby Kennedy, making a surreptitious surrep-titious visit to her bedroom, told her THEIR affair was over. Then he went back to a 1 party at actor Peter Lawford's house. ,-7 . Out of force of habit, Marilyn tried to phone George Kennedy. But the blond, hulking actor, later to become famous for "Cool Hand Luke" and the "Airport" movies, was not at home. Two young Englishmen loitered in the apartment. They were aspiring rock musicians who had traveled to California in hopes of hitting it big. So far, luck had not smiled on John Lennon and Paul McCartney. But they were young and attractive and Marilyn had picked them up on Hollywood Boulevard because they looked like good company. Her feelings of panic and loneliness caught up with her, however. She called her good friend Fidel Castro in Havana, and the Cuban dictator was immediately sympathetic. sym-pathetic. After all, he had been an apathetic medical student stu-dent in Tijuana when Marilyn had visited him in 1956. As he casually mentioned the abuses of the strongman Batista, she screwed up her nose in that special way and said, "Why do you put up with that? " f Thus the Revolution had been born. Now the woman to whom he owed so much was asking for help. Hjj.topk a plane to the U.S., accompanied by 12 bodyguards. - I The next call went out to her good friend Elvis "the Pelvis" Presley in Memphis. He grabbed a handful of I W W W I I . . . - his favorite multicolored pills and rushed to Hollywood. Marilyn tried to call her brother the secret brother who had been raised with her in the orphanage, the relative that no one knew about. He was taking care of her secret child-the child that John Kennedy had j fathered. f In the meantime, Lawford had convinced Bobby he should go back and check on Marilyn. The two celebrities arrived at her bungalow, followed by all their party guests. Presley followed soon after, his limo col- liding with Fidel Castro's cab. The two cars locked bumpers, but were separated by Marilyn's mascot, f . Bigfoot (they had been friends ever since they had both 1 auditioned for roles in "Creature From the Black i Lagoon"). I Back at the party, Lennon and McCartney played some of their songs for Presley. The King, high on drugs and feeling sullen, sneered at their efforts. In a dazed voice, he said, "You bums couldn't attract attention if'n you wore your hair like Moe in the Three Stooges. Yeah, I yeah, yeah." I An argument also broke out between Bobby Kennedy I and Castro. Castro teased the younger Kennedy brother mercilessly about the fumbled Bay of Pigs invasion. He , ( sneered, "I bet you couldn't even beat those pencil- necked Commies over in Vietnam ! " f "Oh, yeah, fur-face?" said Bobby. "Well, just watch 1 our smoke!" ' The climax of the story is furnished by the testimony of Stan Kaluga, who was a patrolman that night. "We received a call from a woman who said she had overdosed overdos-ed on sleeping pills and was trying to die, but there was this noisy party going on in her room," he said. "When our black-and-white arrived at the bungalow, parked cars were backed up for four blocks. Eighty-five people were found in Monroe's bedroom but by that time, Marilyn was oblivious to the party. She was dead," he said. Lawford, aided by the 87th Airborne Battalion, stayed behind to clean up. Next day, the world heard the news that Marilyn had died alone. But Marilyn's brother knew the truth and he blamed ! the Kennedys for her death. He vowed to take revenge ? and more than a year later, Marilyn's little j brother known to the world as Lee Harvey Oswald made good on his promise. ' Marilyn's child, Cathy, grew up alone, but she had heard the story from Uncle Lee of how her mother died during a celebrity drug party. Cathy took the name Cathy Evelyn Smith, and perhaps she was thinking of I her mother when she gave a fatal overdose to John Belushi at another Hollywood bungalow in 1982. , We asked Dr. Necro how he knew this incredible story was true. "We have been guided to this information by a ( 1 '.very reliable sourcfL- In facet's time to feed him right now." "Feed who?" we asked. "Why, the white salamander, of course." , |