Not only did Marilyn Monroe take the time to read Sophocles’ Antigone, she did so while taking Dexedrine and drinking flutes of champagne.
“The late 1920s found him in Hollywood (‘This place is loathsome’) drowning, stingless, in MGM honey, while doing hack work on a silly Marion Davies vehicle. His descriptions of reptilian studio fauna make for delicious reading.” At The Daily Beast, a look at P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters.
