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MM's therapy couch, perfume and checks up for sale

Just when you thought every last bit of Marilyn Monroe had been put up for auction, including the crypt above hers at a local cemetery, along comes the couch from her shrink's office.

Listeners Pick The Year's Best Music (So Far)

NPR listeners cast thousands of votes for the year's best music (so far) and kept the race tight. In the end, Animal Collective edged out every other artist in both the Best Album category, and for Best Song. Artists like Grizzly Bear, The Decemberists and Neko Case weren't far behind. One thing was clear: 2009 has been one of the strongest years for new music in recent memory.

Stranded actor Paul Hogan in Australia tax deal (Reuters)

Reuters - Actor Paul Hogan, star of the "Crocodile Dundee" movies, has struck a deal with Australia's tax office which will allow him to return home to his family in Los Angeles, his lawyer said on Friday.

Jay Leno ratings dip below Conan O'Brien's (Reuters)

Reuters - NBC might have summer's most-watched show in "America's Got Talent," but the network's late-night ratings aren't so hot.

Vivid Entertainment: A new business model for porn

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - If the new "Date Night" DVD had sold only 25,000 copies, there would have been hell to pay for studio executives. But for Steven Hirsch -- or anyone else in the adult entertainment business, for that matter -- that figure represents a blockbuster.

Vivid Entertainment: A new business model for porn (Reuters)

Reuters - If the new "Date Night" DVD had sold only 25,000 copies, there would have been hell to pay for studio executives. But for Steven Hirsch -- or anyone else in the adult entertainment business, for that matter -- that figure represents a blockbuster.

Fishburne's porn-star daughter avoiding dark side

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Before summer began, no one had heard of Montana Fishburne. But the daughter of Oscar-nominated actor Laurence Fishburne, now the main guy on "CSI," was eager to make a name for herself.

Fishburne's porn-star daughter avoiding dark side (omg!)

omg! - Reuters - Before summer began, no one had heard of Montana Fishburne. But the daughter of Oscar-nominated actor Laurence Fishburne, now the main guy on "CSI," was eager to make a name for herself.

Theater Listings: Sept. 3 — 9

Selective listings by theater critics of The New York Times of noteworthy shows in New York.

Educational Deals this Weekend

Free superhero-fueled tutoring in Brooklyn, gardening classes for Young Sprouts near Battery Park and Sunday night fun on the Lower East Side.

Cammie King, Scarlett and Rhett’s Girl, Dies at 76

Ms. King played Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler’s ill-fated little girl, Bonnie Blue Butler, in “Gone With the Wind.”

Antiques: Furniture as Sculpture: A Craftsman’s Legacy

An exhibition about the Pennsylvania carver and sculptor Wharton Esherick, known for his mid-20th-century undulating furniture, opens on Sept. 7 in galleries at the University of Pennsylvania.

Urban Athlete: Chorus-Line Calisthenics

For beginning hoofers or advanced, Broadway dance routines can be an alternative to the gym.

Vance Bourjaily, Novelist Exploring Postwar America, Dies at 87

Mr. Bourjaily’s novels often explored what it meant to be an American at a particular historical moment.

Live Today: Birdie Busch In Concert

The boisterous neo-folk singer is making a name for herself in Philadelphia. The WXPN favorite performs at World Cafe Live as part of its Friday concert series -- you can listen to the show live at noon ET.

Art Review: The Allure of the Homespun in the Maw of the Digital Age

“Underground Pop,” at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., highlights the tension between college-trained sophistication and fictions of naïveté.

Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa

Lorenzo Dow Turner dug deep to find many African-inflected elements in the Gullah language and culture.

Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dalí of Constant Ambition

An exhibition counters the notion that late work by Dalí is bad, and that most Dalí is late work.

Art Review: Landscapes Framed by a Chevy

Lee Friedlander’s “America by Car,” opening Saturday at the Whitney Museum, consists of black-and-white photographs taken from inside cars.

Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame)

“Bad art” — rescued from trash heaps and thrift shops — has become a genre in itself, with its own fans.

The Tipsy Diaries: The Kitchen Sink in Your Drink

It’s an infuse-a-palooza out there, as infused spirits make serious headway in bars and restaurants of all kinds.

Movie Review | 'Etienne!': Rodent Road Trip and Human Bonds

A boy loses his rodent and finds a girl in “Etienne!,” a sunny-sweet fable about healing wounds with the balm of the open road.

House Tour: New Preston, Conn.

On Lake Waramaug, a converted boathouse has a stone foundation, a wraparound deck and direct access to the water.

French 'Spider-Man' in Sydney court over climb (AP)

AP - A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spider-Man" pleaded not guilty Friday to charges related to his bare-handed climb up a 57-story building in downtown Sydney.

Movie Review | 'A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop': Remade in China: Coen Brothers’ Tale of Infidelity and Revenge

The director Zhang Yimou honors the unlikely affinity between himself and Joel and Ethan Coen with a remake of their movie “Blood Simple.”