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A US business has bought up Monroe's brand rights in the hope of reviving her via Tron: Legacy-style technology. Will it work?

"Death," purred Gandalf, back in The Lord of the Rings, "is not the end. Death is just another path – one that we must all take." The wizard may have said these words trying to console a scared hobbit, but he could have easily been describing a tentatively emerging Hollywood philosophy.

The Oprah Winfrey Network marks a major change in direction, and professional gamble for the billionaire talkshow host

"Dream it, do it." This is not the resolution of a person, but rather the motto of America's newest television channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network.

OWN, as Winfrey's much-touted, long-gestated new TV channel will be known, launches tomorrow. Anything the self-made billionaire and media phenomenon does is viewed with interest, whether it's recommending a book or a presidential candidate. But as she herself has said, this venture is easily her riskiest to date.