About 10 minutes into Marilyn: Forever Blonde I caught myself thinking that I was watching the real thing. That’s how convincingly actress Sunny Thompson channels Marilyn Monroe in her one-woman show, at Stoneham Theatre through November 11, 2007.
Thompson is no mere look-a-like or Marilyn impersonator, although in full makeup and costume she is a dead-ringer [...]

East Coast premier stars Sunny Thompson
“Who would want to be compared to Marilyn Monroe?”
That was actress Sunny Thompson’s initial reaction when her husband, Greg Thompson, asked her to read for the one-woman show he had written about one of Hollywood’s most iconic figures. “Marilyn: Forever Blonde” is set to make its East Coast premier this [...]

I am nothing if not ahead of my time.
On April 1, 1999, I wrote a column about filling in the Lake and building the “Quannapowitt Casino.” In spite of the date on the newspaper, some people in town actually thought it was a serious proposal.
Back then, the state’s economy was booming, cities and towns were [...]