Sayuri Nitta: A story like mine should never be told. For my world is as forbidden as it is fragile. Without its mysteries it cannot survive. I certainly wasn't born to the life of a geisha. Like so much in my strange life, I was carried there by the current.
SHORT EYES written by Miguel Pinero first debuted off broadway Febuary 1974. Pinero's work was nominated for six Tony Awards, won the New York Critics Circle Award, and an Obie Award for the "best play of the year".
Robert M. Young later on directed the flim and captured true poetry at its finest.
The son of fame photographer Len Steckler recently discoverd negatives of an unexpected visitor which his father had one night December 1961. The series of photos called "Marilyn Monroe: The Visit", show a vibrant Monroe drinking Jack Daniels next to Pulitzer-prize winning poet Carl Sandburg. The photos are now for sale.