This is GQ-ey but I don’t think there is a GQ answer so I put it here.
Besides President Kennedy has anyone read of who else Marilyn was performing oral sex on?
Who did this and why? It seems almost certain - since it has been kept under wraps for 40 years that it must be for blackmail purposes - disagree?
Does anyone know when it was filmed and is it for 100% real?
One might think that if protecting Marylin were his priority, the buyer would destroy the film.
But if he destroyed the film, he’d in fact open her legacy to rampant specualtion about the film’s contents, no?
You can’t destroy the singular evidence as to a time in history any more than you could a work of art because you judge it to be something less. It happened, it was documented and we’ve all gotton along just fine without knowledge of either it or its content for all these years.
If that’s what the buyer did (buy it to protect, not exploit), then I like his approach. I’m not much on invasions of privacy but even more distasteful I think would be destroying whatever redeeming value we may one day think it’s capable of sharing.
Someone’s son or daughter, or grandson or granddaughter is going to need money someday, and this tape will go into the the public domain when that happens. Assuming this is some private detective style film the quality is likely to be extremely poor given 60’s portable movie camera technology, and the fact that (assumedly) the film was being made surreptitiously.
As to the quality, it was good enough that J. Edgar brought alleged past Kennedy relations in to attempt positive determination of, presumably, whether the manhood in question had CiC potential. Furthermore, ex-husband DiMaggio offered $25K for it why? T’wernt because the participants were overly grainy.
I don’t think you meant to say what you said there, but I could be wrong. How would putting it into the public domain make anyone any money off it?
There’s a Zapruder film joke in here somewhere…
The head goes back and to the left.
“My name is Abraham Zacooter and…”
Interesting question. Some bios and movie histories have her as having an epic sexual appetite, and others as quite demure despite her sex appeal.
A million and a half for a BJ wank flick! Someone needs to introduce this guy to the internet!
The money will be paid by the entity that wants to charge for access, or flog it for publicity, or whatever, and 10 minutes later it will be on the net.
Clothed even! Unless there’s some amazing skills being demonstrated it doesn’t even sound particularly erotic.
I’m having trouble understanding what redeeming value there is in a film of Marylin sucking on an identified (and apparently unidentifiable) man’s dick.
But in any case, my post above was mocking the buyer’s motives of keeping it private to “protect” Marylin. He’s going to preserve it for for whatever unstated reasons he has, and that’s fine. But tossing out that he has a pure reason for doing this, completely altruistic, is laughable. If he wanted to protect the woman, he’d destroy the film, end of story.
You might be surprised. MM and the preservation of her memory and quasi-worship of her (mainly as a gay icon) is still a big deal for some people. I have no problem believing some rich old guy who cherished her memory would buy the tape to keep it from being exploited as vintage porn.
Right, but… maybe you misunderstand, or maybe I misunderstand you, but wouldn’t he be doing an even better job of keeping it from being exploited as vintage porn if he destroyed the tape rather than preserving it?
Well what you’re saying is that you can’t. Many many others can and do destroy documents and art they don’t like. Book burnings, smashing rock & roll albums, desroying the ancient library at Alexandria – they’re all akin and seem to be wildly popular events to a certain crowd.
Though I don’t recall someone paying a million bucks for the privilege, it’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility.
Personally, though, I think it’s not being released now because that would destroy its financial value – copies would be made and be all over the world in minutes. The guy will jerk off to it until it doesn’t give him a rise anymore, and then sell it off to the next millionaire wanker.
MM is a gay icon? 
This is where the story lost all credibility to me:
I’m sure that everybody here agrees with me that there aren’t already several hundred copies in somebody’s possession, even as we speak! 
Kennedy got a shot off but it was Marilyn’s head that went back, and to the left.
Of course, most films have some form of foreshadowing…
The worst part was Jackie climing over the coffee table to wipe up the spill.
Edit - I didn’t even notice your “back and to the left” comment at first. So do you hear it in Kevin Costner’s nasally voice as well?