have you ever wanted to look up Marilyn Monroe's skirt now you can!!!!

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By Charles Rex Arbogast, AP

A giant statue of the legendary sex bomb in that famous Seven Year Itch skirt-blown-up moment was unveiled along Chicago's Magnificent Mile today, and tourists already are hot and bothered, and bewitched.This is the new must-have photo souvenir: posing underneath the billowy skirt of Seward Johnson's 26-foot likeness, which towers over pedestrians on Michigan Avenue.
"Forever Marilyn" stands in Pioneer Court near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. The Toronto Star says the sculpture is a venture involving the Zeller Realty Group and The Sculpture Foundation, and the aim is to draw crowds. Johnson is a New Jersey artist who is a member of the family of Johnson & Johnson healthcare products fame and a cousin of actor Michael Douglas. He is known for offbeat works.
This one already is controversial. (I have not seen an explanation of why the statue stands in Chicago, rather than Manhattan, where Itch is set and where Monroe's skirt was blown up by air escaping from a subway grate.)

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Abraham Ritchie writes on the blog Chicagonow.com that the depiction of the late star bent over with white panties showing is "creepy" and "sexist."
Ritchie writes that the Johnson piece "caters to cheap titillation, titillation that is in itself pathetic. By making Monroe's panties visible, Johnson encourages voyeurism. When I visited it recently there were no less than three men taking pictures of Monroe's rear. ... The eroticism of the actual scene in the movie is drained out as the moment lasts eternally."

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By Charles Rex Arbogast, AP

The Chicago Tribune reported on the statue as crowd-luring phenomenon, saying that Monroe "decried and exploited her own photographic exploitation until the day she died. The ogling continues in earnest, five decades after her death."
Readers, what are your thoughts?