Lindsay Lohan was all set to continue her obsession with
Marilyn Monroe during last week's "
Saturday Night Live" -- but a sketch featuring her and Jon Hamm was scrapped at the last minute ... TMZ has learned.
According to our sources, the sketch was to feature Lindsay as Marilyn and Hamm as JFK appearing to Rick Santorum (played by
Andy Samberg) while he is at a conservative event (
see photo above).
During the sketch, Marilyn and JFK explain Marilyn was on birth control provided to her by Medicare, which causes Santorum to vomit uncontrollably. Santorum (the real one) recently said that JFK's speech from 1960 about keeping religion out of politics "makes [him] want to throw up."
In the end, we're told the sketch made it all the way to rehearsals, and was even performed in front of a live audience, but was ultimately cut because of time constraints.
Lindsay has channeled Marilyn several times over the years, including her most recent Playboy cover.
Since the first guy wasn't able to, er, finish -- a new guy (or girl) will now get a chance to spend eternity on top of
Marilyn Monroe ... if they've got half-a-mil layin' around.
The people who own the burial plot directly above Marilyn at the
Westwood Village Memorial Park and Cemetery are putting their little hole in the wall back on eBay on October 19th ... and since they've already been burned by a guy who promised to pay $4.6 million for it -- this time, they're making sure the bidder can pay up.
A rep for eBay tell us, "
The starting price will be $500,000, with a hidden reserve. Bidders this time will need to prove they have the funds to pay for the auction if they win, including making a refundable deposit of between 1 and 5% of the amount they would like to bid."FYI -- the winning bidder will have to share dead space with
Hugh Hefner ... dude reportedly paid a cool $1,000,000 for the plot directly next to her.
For $4.6 million, you can sleep with
Marilyn Monroe ... for all of eternity.
A woman in Los Angeles removed her dead husband from his crypt -- which is located right above Marilyn Monroe's at the Westwood Village Memorial Park and Cemetery -- and has put the plot for
sale on eBay.
The cemetery is also home to the likes of Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Don Knotts, Rodney Dangerfield and Donna Reed.
Bidding ends at noon Monday.
Being dead for over 40 years or not a real person didn't stop cops at the Scottsdale, Ariz. P.D. from arresting Marilyn Monroe and Darth Vader.
TMZ obtained the Scottsdale PD's most recent Weekly
Arrest Report and discovered a nasty charge of indecent exposure for a 76-year-old Marilyn Jean Monroe and identity theft by a 23-year-old Darth Vader. Anakin Skywalker has officially gone to the dark side!
We're told it was an innocent screw up, after the names and charges were entered during a computer systems test and wound up in the arrest log.
To the people of Scottsdale: May the farce be with you.
The people who control the late Marilyn Monroe's estate are incensed that a distant relative of Marilyn's assistant has been hording a massive store of her possessions, including letters, notes, bank statements -- even perfume -- and plans to sell it off.
Marilyn Monroe, LLC, the company that controls the star's posthumous holdings,
is suing Millington Conroy, as well as a group of unnamed defendants, to stop them from auctioning or licensing any of the stuff they, according to the suit, have nabbed unlawfully. (Conroy is the son of Ruth Conroy, who was the sister-in-law of Inez Melson, who was Marilyn's assistant.) The suit alleges that back in 1994, Millington said in a deposition that all he had of Marilyn's were two pieces of correspondence between Ms. Melson and herself.
Turns out he had a lot more than that.
A spokesman for the estate of Marilyn Monroe said, "The parties are in discussions working toward a resolution of this matter, and a further statement will be issued subsequently."
The King may have left the building but his prescription pills are still here: A bottle that contained Elvis Presley's prescription antihistamines was sold this week at an auction for more than $2,600. That's a mighty expensive prescription plan! While the bottle still contained some of The King's original pills, L.A. County police told auction house Julien's that it would be a federal crime to sell the bottle with pills included.
Other unusual Hollywood ephemera sold during the auction included a gold-plated gun owned by the Elvis, which sold for more than $28,000; Alfred Hitchcock's passport, which went for more than $19,000; and a prop umbrella once used by Marilyn Monroe for $42,000. The umbrella will become part of the collection of the Museum of Style Icons in County Kildare, Ireland.
Forbes has once again released its annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list, and while it's no surprise why most of the buried big shots made the list (Kurt Cobain,
John Lennon and Elvis are all still banking from music sales) there were two lifeless wonders that left us scratching our heads -- Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe.
According to Forbes, Marilyn Monroe raked in a cool $8 million last year, earning her the ninth spot on the dead earners list. But where is it all coming from? Nearly a half-century after her death, the blonde bombshell is still cashing in on her image -- or rather the licensing of it.
Just recently, Marilyn's image was used to sell perfume in Europe, Dom Perignon champagne, Absolut vodka and vehicles for General Motors. And don't forget about the thousands of lesser-known products with Marilyn's face on them ranging from t-shirts to posters. Just like J.F.K., seems like the world can't get enough Marilyn.
