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Marilyn was a big supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Ella Fitzgerald was one of Marilyn’s idols and a major inspiration. However, the Mocambo nightclub in West Hollywood, the most popular dance spot at the time, refused to let Ella perform there because she was black. Outraged, Marilyn told the owners that if they would let Ella perform, she would be there in the front row every time Ella was onstage. She did, and the two became friends.

According to the great Ella Fitzgerald: “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt…it was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the ’50s. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him - and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status - that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.”

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Some days, some nights. Some live, some die in the way of the samurai.

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Seed Cathedral

(Image: Daniele Mattioli)

This is a seed cathedral: a 20-metre-tall, £25 million shrine to botany and international diplomacy. It is the British government’s gift to the Shanghai World Expo, which opened in China.

When viewed from the outside, the building – designed by UK architect Thomas Heatherwick – bristles with 60,600 8-metre-long acrylic spikes, which sway when the wind blows. Inside, the tips of the rods display 6000 varieties of seed. During the day, sunlight passes through the tubes, illuminating the seeds inside. “Visitors pass through this tranquil, contemplative space, surrounded by the tens of thousands of points of light illuminating the seeds,” the team behind the pavilion say.

The seeds come from the Kunming Institute of Botany in China – a partner of the Millennium Seed Bank project at Kew Gardens, London.

Thomas talking about the cathedral himself during a conference:

"This is the first time we've ever created a structure that looks more like a rendering than any of our renderings..."

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My only concern with the MIG tour so far:

With the Bück Dich skit and the DICK CANNON 2.0™, I really hope that when they get around to touring the US that they have some sfw-versions of those skits planned or a way of getting past the authorities with all of this. Because although I'm pretty cool with it, I sort of don't want to see them getting arrested (again) or banned in 42 states.

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