Forever a Cover Girl

Nearly 40 years after her death, and she's still a cover girl.

Vanity Fair is running excerpts from a new book of Marilyn Monroe's previously unpublished diaries. Her notes. Her musings about going to Lee Strasberg's famous method acting school in New York. Her fears, her disappointments, her tragedies, even her poems.

I know people will never get tired of this poor girl's life and early death . No detail is too intimate or macabre. The magazine will doubtless sell well -- the book, too.

Even though many would argue her celebrity made a greater dent in the world than her work as an actress, I still feel kind of queasy about it. I guess I would never read somebody else's diary, much less sell it.

Then again, maybe she wrote it all down so someone would read it some day.

I guess we'll never know.