Living celebrities undergo identity changes every other news cycle. (You may have heard something this week about a golfer, a car crash, and an affair or two — no longer all that alleged, either). But it's not too often that dead ones get a makeover.

Well, maybe makeover's too strong a word for what this newly released home movie of Marilyn Monroe does to her image; call it a refocusing:

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One minute of silent, Super 8 celluloid won't deflate the Marilyn myth by much, but it does inflate the Marilyn reality appreciably. The Hollywood icon, the sex object nonpareil, the megawatt companion of Joltin' Joe and President Jack — well, as late as 1959, when the cracks were starting to appear in public, she was still, in private, a gal who could happily smoke a J with a couple of girlfriends in New Jersey.

The line on Monroe has always been that she was the Girl Next Door who happened to become a star. There wasn't, until now, any reason at all to believe it. Sometimes it's nice to be proven wrong.

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