![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the teasing promise that Summers’ bunker full of ancient cassette tapes will offer some rare insight into the life of America’s most self-evident celebrity - and the even more tantalizing hint that they might shine new light on the “mysterious” circumstances of her death - Cooper’s film does no independent research of its own, and therefore can’t possibly offer any tidbits that weren’t first reported in the pages of “Goddess.” ![]() That question won’t be answered until we see if “The Unheard Tapes” shows up on the Netflix Top 10, but it’s hard to imagine that anyone who does choose to watch this documentary will feel as if the juice was worth the squeeze. ![]() “Are people really so desperate for something to watch between seasons of ‘Bridgerton’ that they’ll settle for lip-synched re-enactments of some interview my housekeeper gave in 1985?” “Are you joking?” she might sigh in a soft breath of resignation. Watching Emma Cooper’s elegant but empty “ The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes” - which essentially functions as the long-delayed audiobook of a biography called “Goddess” that Anthony Summers wrote about the star more than 30 years ago - I couldn’t help but imagine that even Hollywood’s most famous pin-up would be surprised to see her image stretched this thin. ‘Bad Things’ Review: Queer ‘Shining’ Is a Refreshing Twist on Slashers ![]()
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