玛丽莲·梦露之死
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京人 于 2000/04/09 19:09:10 发表在 汉英
《他们这样离去》
玛丽莲·梦露之死
Marilyn Monroe: 1926年6月1日－1962年8月5日
在二十世纪，也许没有任何人的死亡像玛丽莲·梦露之死那样，
引起人们无休无止的分析和猜测，只有一个人的死亡例外，凑巧
的是，这就是肯尼迪之死。梦露到底是自杀还是被谋杀？几乎每
年都有新书出版，或是尝试回答这个问题，或是提出新的问题。
1982年，在梦露死后二十年，洛杉矶的地区检察官办公室重新审
查她的案子，但又在四个月后断定，没有足够的新证据来进行一
次全面调查。引起所有这一切纷扰的，原来是一个举目无亲、被
人家领养的黑头发小女孩，但后来终于在电影屏幕上变成一个头
发染成金黄、眼睛碧蓝、令人心驰神荡的美女。
具有讽刺意味的是，当梦露在36岁去世的时候，她的性感女星形
象不知道还能持续多久。她最后的两部影片，《让我们作爱》和
《格格不入的人》，都是失败之作。她由于一再误工，被从正在
拍摄的一部影片中开除。这部影片的名字正好是《该割爱的时候
要割爱》。梦露大声抗议，认为自己受到了不公正的对待。她对
记者说：“电影界的问题不在我们，而是在管理部门，把好莱坞
的麻烦归罪于明星是愚蠢的。那些高级管理人员不应该如此作贱
他们的摇钱树”。
不到两个月之后，人们发现梦露死在自己的家中，这是一个座落
在落杉矶市布伦屋区的不起眼的房子，她的尸体是在卧室中发现
的。梦露死前服用了大量安眠药，但除此之外，所有其他细节都
引起了很大争议。起初的说法是，她的女佣是最后一个看见她活
着的人，当时是8月4日星期六晚8时，梦露走进了卧室。女佣说，
她在星期日凌晨3时25分看见梦露的卧室中有灯光。她发现房门打
不开，就跑到外面，透过落地窗朝里望，看见梦露横躺在床上，
一条胳膊伸着，手垂在电话机上面。女佣打电话给梦露的心理分
析医生，他三天前刚刚给她开了大约40片安眠药，星期六傍晚的
时候还和梦露通过电话。心理分析医生赶到梦露的家，打破玻璃
到屋里一看，梦露已经死了。床边有一个空瓶子，里面本应是他
开的安眠药。此外还有14个其他的瓶子，装的是别的药。梦露没
有留下任何遗书。
也许她根本没有写遗书的机会。她如果是被谋杀的，当然没有办
法留个遗嘱。但是，关于谋杀的推论完全是以谁有动机杀害梦露
为依据，而不是有任何关于谁动手杀了她的实际证据。与梦露之
死引起的很多问题一样，关于谋杀的指控集中在肯尼迪总统和他
的弟弟、司法部长鲍比身上。人们证据相当充分地宣称，梦露和
这兄弟俩都有暧昧关系，而鲍比在死前试图结束这种关系。谋杀
论者说，有人为了构陷肯尼迪兄弟而杀了梦露，或至少是为了以
此在政治上给他们以致命打击。在鲍比以后的竞选中，右翼分子
甚至指控说，是他下令杀害了梦露，为的是避免更大的丑闻。他
们说，即使梦露是自杀，鲍比·肯尼迪也曾在警察赶到之前进入
过她的卧室，拿走了所有对自己不利的证据，包括一封遗书。但
是，把鲍比·肯尼迪和梦露联系起来的唯一可靠证据是她死前不
久的电话记录，其中显示，梦露在死前几天给鲍比在司法部的办
公室打过几次电话。
虽然无意服用过量的安眠药也是可能的，但是如果说梦露是自杀，
肯定要可信得多。梦露在1961年进过两次精神病院。她在生命的
最后一年基本上是沉湎于精神药物和酒精。她从两个大夫那里开
药，对每个大夫都隐瞒另一个大夫的处方。1962年5月19日，为
了庆祝肯尼迪总统的生日，梦露在麦迪逊广场花园（京人注：纽
约的运动场/剧场）曼声轻气，看来是柔情绵绵地唱出一曲“祝
你生日快乐”，引起了轰动。但实际上，她那晕晕乎乎的样子不
是在表演。
在梦露死前两天，《时代》杂志援引她的话说：“一切结束的时
候可能是一种解脱。我好像在赛跑，但是不知道赛跑的圈数。每
次跑到终点，我都喘口气，以为终于跑完了。但永远跑不完，一
切都还要重新开始。”梦露在最后的日子里心情沮丧，原因之一
是被从拍摄的影片中开除，而另一个原因据说是鲍比·肯尼迪不
回她的电话。8月4日星期六，梦露一天都在打电话。朋友们说，
她在电话上心情抑郁，不知是否应该去参加肯尼迪的妹夫彼得·
劳福德在当晚举行的一个晚会。当天来看她的有心理分析医生和
发型师。
梦露的葬礼在加利福尼亚州的威斯特伍德市举行，离好莱坞不远。
尽管各种流言蜚语已经山雨欲来，但葬礼是宁静的。来宾有500多
个，可是邀请的明星不多，新闻界则被禁止入内。纽约洋基棒球
队的前明星、梦露三任丈夫中的第二任乔·戴马吉奥在盖棺之前
吻了她。曾经教梦露演戏的著名表演教师李·斯特拉斯堡挥泪致
了悼词。他说：“梦露用她的一生创造了一个神话，显示了一个
家境贫寒的穷姑娘所能取得的成就。对于全世界，她已经成为永
恒的女性象征。”因为她的神秘的死，这永恒之火越烧越旺。
京人 译
摘自Malcolm Forbes和Jeff Bloch著They Went That-A-Way
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作者：大头 - 2000/04/09 19:39:29
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扫描的原文在此，但下次恕不从命
作者：京人 - 2000/04/09 22:20:30
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MARILYN MONROE
June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962
PERHAPS NO DEATH in this century - oddly enough, other than John F. Kennedy's - has inspired such an undying legacy of analysis and speculation as that of Marilyn Monroe. Did she commit suicide? Was she murdered? Scarcely a year goes by when some new book doesn't try to answer those questions or nominate new ones. As late as l982 - twenty years after she died - the Los Angeles district attorney's office reopened her file, then four months later determined there wasn't enough new information to warrant a full investigation. And all of this because of a waify, dark-haired foster child who blossomed on the screen into a bleach-blond, blue-eyed, breathless bombshell.
Ironically, by the time Monroe died at the age of 36, it wasn't clear how much longer her sex-symbol image would last. Her last two releases, Let's Make Love and The Misfits, had been flops, and she had been dismissed from the picture she was working on because of repeated absences. The movie was called Some thing's Got to Give, and Monroe loudly protested how she felt she was being mistreated. "We're what's okay with the movie business," she told a reporter. "Management is what's wrong with the business. To blame the trouble of Hollywood on stars is stupid. These executives should not knock their assets around."
Less than two months later Monroe was found dead in the bedroom of her modest home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. She had overdosed on sleeping pills, but everything else about the event has been disputed. The initial story was that her housekeeper was the last person to see her alive when Monroe went into her bedroom about 8 P.M. on Saturday, August 4. The housekeeper said she saw a light in the movie star's room at 3:25 Sunday morning. When she found the door locked she went outside and peered in through the French windows, where she saw Monroe lying across her bed with one arm extended and her hand draped over the telephone. The housekeeper called Monroe's analyst, who had prescribed a bottle of about 40 sleeping pills three days before and had spoken to Monroe earlier that evening. The analyst arrived at the house and broke a windowpane to get into her room, where he found Monroe dead. Beside her bed was an empty bottle that had contained the 4eeping pills he prescribed, as well as 14 other bottles of medicines and pills. Monroe had left no note.
Or had she? Of course she wouldn't have left a note if she had been murdered. But evidence of that is based on who might have had a reason to kill her, not any proof that someone did it. The allegations-like much about Monroe's death-center on President Kennedy and his brother Bobby, who was the Attorney General. There have been substantial claims that Monroe had affairs with both men and that Bobby was trying to break it off when she died. The murder theory is that Monroe was killed to frame the Kennedy's or at least cripple them politically. During Bobby's later campaigns right-wingers even accused him of ordering her killed to prevent a bigger scandal. Even if she did kill herself, it is alleged that Bobby Kennedy was in her home before police arrived and cleared out any damaging evidence, including a suicide note. But the Only firm link between Bobby Kennedy and Monroe near her death was telephone records indicating that Monroe had called Kennedy's office at the Justice Department several times in the days before she died.
It certainly is more plausible that Monroe killed herself, though possibly the overdose was accidental. Monroe had been treated in mental institutions twice in 1961. She spent much of her last year doped on pills and alcohol, getting medicines from at least two doctors without telling each of the other's prescriptions. On May 19, 1962, Monroe caused a sensation with her breathy, seemingly sensuous purring of "Happy Birthday" to President Kennedy in a celebration at Madison Square Garden, when in fact her dazed performance was no act.
Two days before she died Life magazine quoted Monroe as saying, "It might be kind of a relief to be finished. It's sort of like I don't know what kind of a yard dash you're running, but then you're at the finish line and you sort of sigh - you've made it! But you never have- You have to start all over again." In her final days Monroe was distraught over her dismissal from the film and, allegedly, over Bobby Kennedy's refusal to return her phone calls. She spent much of Saturday, August 4, on the telephone, sounding distressed to her friends and trying to decide whether to attend a party that night at the home of Peter Lawford, the Kennedy's' brother-in-law. She was visited by her analyst and her hairdresser.
Amid a gathering storm of rumors, Monroe received a quiet funeral in Westwood, California, near Hollywood. Among the 500 guests, few stars were invited and the press was banned. Joe DiMaggio, the former Yankee baseball star and the second of Monroe's three husbands, kissed her just before her coffin was closed. Revered acting instructor Lee Strasberg, with whom Monroe had studied, wept before he delivered the eulogy. "In her own lifetime," Strasberg said, "she created a myth of what a poor girl from a deprived background could attain. For the entire world she became a symbol of the eternal feminine." The eternal flame remains fueled by how she died.
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多谢！多谢！小弟已去BARNES&NOBLE订购了一本，下次应该不必再麻烦兄台了。
作者：大头 - 2000/04/09 22:38:25
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我太笨，扫描也费了一些时间。大头请原谅。
作者：京人 - 2000/04/09 22:24:30
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希望你喜欢下面的原文。
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小弟拜读了兄台的译作，深感佩服！兄台...
作者：大头 - 2000/04/09 23:14:15
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兄台译得准确、通顺、浅显易懂，不愧为职业译手。
小弟只有一点想要就教于兄台和各位方家。文中有一句形容梦露由深色头发的小姑娘变成 bleach-blond bombshell。在此兄台将 bleach blond 译为“头发染成金黄”，小弟觉得可能略有不妥。小弟的感觉是 bleach 一词在此是形容其头发之金黄色偏淡，就好象经过漂白一样。如果这里的bleach是动词的话，那么也许应是 bleached blond 或 bleached to blond 且或许应译为“漂成金黄”，不知兄台意下如何？
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