Jessica Burstein, the veteran photographer who helped capture the Law & Order franchise, has died following a battle with lung cancer. She was 76.
She died April 11 at her home in Manhattan, her sister Patricia Burstein told The New York Times.
Born on April 7, 1947, in Mineola, New York, Burstein grew up in nearby Lawrence. After she graduated from NYU in 1968, she worked for commercial photographer Bert Stern for several years. Then, in 1974, she was believed to be the first woman to work as a staff photographer at NBC.
It wasn’t until the early ’90s that Burstein met Dick Wolf, the creator of Law & Order. He ended up hiring her to photograph the weekly crime scenes for the original series and eventually became its photographer from 1994-2010, when the show was canceled. (It was revived in 2022.) She also photographed the spinoffs, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit until 2007 and...
She died April 11 at her home in Manhattan, her sister Patricia Burstein told The New York Times.
Born on April 7, 1947, in Mineola, New York, Burstein grew up in nearby Lawrence. After she graduated from NYU in 1968, she worked for commercial photographer Bert Stern for several years. Then, in 1974, she was believed to be the first woman to work as a staff photographer at NBC.
It wasn’t until the early ’90s that Burstein met Dick Wolf, the creator of Law & Order. He ended up hiring her to photograph the weekly crime scenes for the original series and eventually became its photographer from 1994-2010, when the show was canceled. (It was revived in 2022.) She also photographed the spinoffs, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit until 2007 and...
- 4/22/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pamela Anderson made some shocking revelations in her new memoir Love, Pamela.
While the actress and model spent much of the book discussing her artistic inspirations and recounting her childhood, she also revealed some stories about her former lovers including her ex-husband Kid Rock.
According to Anderson, Kid Rock – whose real name is Robert James Ritchie – didn’t like her hanging out with her close friend, David Lachapelle. Despite the photographer being gay, Ritchie was apparently jealous of their friendship, and she said Ritche “didn’t believe David was really gay.”
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“David and I have always been very close, soulmates in some ways,” she writes. “I’d found someone who accepted me, full stop, and nurtured and instigated the artistic side of me like no one else.”
Anderson also revealed the surprising reason she and Ritchie broke up. She recalled the time...
While the actress and model spent much of the book discussing her artistic inspirations and recounting her childhood, she also revealed some stories about her former lovers including her ex-husband Kid Rock.
According to Anderson, Kid Rock – whose real name is Robert James Ritchie – didn’t like her hanging out with her close friend, David Lachapelle. Despite the photographer being gay, Ritchie was apparently jealous of their friendship, and she said Ritche “didn’t believe David was really gay.”
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“David and I have always been very close, soulmates in some ways,” she writes. “I’d found someone who accepted me, full stop, and nurtured and instigated the artistic side of me like no one else.”
Anderson also revealed the surprising reason she and Ritchie broke up. She recalled the time...
- 2/2/2023
- by Miranda Dipaolo
- Uinterview
According to Pamela Anderson, her former husband Kid Rock despised her “Borat” cameo.
The “Baywatch” alum wrote in her memoir “Love, Pamela” that following a private screening at CAA founder and former NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer’s home with Steven Spielberg in attendance, Rock (aka Robert “Bob” James Ritchie) yelled at Anderson and called her a “whore,” among other expletives.
“We were about to move in, until the premiere of ‘Borat,'” Anderson wrote of her relationship with Rock. “The screening at Ron and Kelly Meyer’s house didn’t go well. Lots of important industry people were there: Steven Spielberg, Rick Rubin, Laird Hamilton and his wife, Gabby Reece. I didn’t tell Bob I was in the movie, because I wanted to surprise him.”
She continued, “I forgot about the part in the film that referenced the ‘sextape.’ Bob stormed out, calling me a whore and worse.
The “Baywatch” alum wrote in her memoir “Love, Pamela” that following a private screening at CAA founder and former NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer’s home with Steven Spielberg in attendance, Rock (aka Robert “Bob” James Ritchie) yelled at Anderson and called her a “whore,” among other expletives.
“We were about to move in, until the premiere of ‘Borat,'” Anderson wrote of her relationship with Rock. “The screening at Ron and Kelly Meyer’s house didn’t go well. Lots of important industry people were there: Steven Spielberg, Rick Rubin, Laird Hamilton and his wife, Gabby Reece. I didn’t tell Bob I was in the movie, because I wanted to surprise him.”
She continued, “I forgot about the part in the film that referenced the ‘sextape.’ Bob stormed out, calling me a whore and worse.
- 2/1/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Pamela Anderson’s just-released memoir, “Love, Pamela,” alleges that Kid Rock screamed at her and called her “a whore” following the world premiere screening of Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 blockbuster comedy film “Borat.” The two were in a relationship at the time and, according to Anderson, were set to move in together until the “Borat” screening derailed their partnership. Anderson brought Rock to the “Borat” premiere without telling him she factored into the plot. The likes of Steven Spielberg and Rick Rubin were also in attendance at the event.
“I didn’t tell Bob I was in the movie, because I wanted to surprise him,” Anderson writes (via a book excerpt released by Rolling Stone). “I forgot about the part in the film that referenced the ‘sex tape.’ Bob stormed out, calling me a whore and worse. He was embarrassed, and his reaction was not thought through.”
“After I chased Bob to his car,...
“I didn’t tell Bob I was in the movie, because I wanted to surprise him,” Anderson writes (via a book excerpt released by Rolling Stone). “I forgot about the part in the film that referenced the ‘sex tape.’ Bob stormed out, calling me a whore and worse. He was embarrassed, and his reaction was not thought through.”
“After I chased Bob to his car,...
- 1/31/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Among Borat’s many very nice services is his habit of revealing grotesque misogyny, as Pamela Anderson found out firsthand when Sacha Baron Cohen’s most famous character saved her from moving in with Kid Rock.
As Anderson reveals in her new memoir Love, Pamela (via Rolling Stone), she and Kid Rock, aka Robert Ritchie, were ready to enter a serious phase of their relationship — that is, until they witnessed an advance screening of the 2006 film Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
“We were about to move in, until the premiere of Borat,” she wrote. “The screening at Ron and Kelly Meyer’s house didn’t go well. Lots of important industry people were there — Steven Spielberg, Rick Rubin, Laird Hamilton and his wife, Gabby Reece. I didn’t tell Bob I was in the movie, because I wanted to surprise him.”
In the film,...
As Anderson reveals in her new memoir Love, Pamela (via Rolling Stone), she and Kid Rock, aka Robert Ritchie, were ready to enter a serious phase of their relationship — that is, until they witnessed an advance screening of the 2006 film Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
“We were about to move in, until the premiere of Borat,” she wrote. “The screening at Ron and Kelly Meyer’s house didn’t go well. Lots of important industry people were there — Steven Spielberg, Rick Rubin, Laird Hamilton and his wife, Gabby Reece. I didn’t tell Bob I was in the movie, because I wanted to surprise him.”
In the film,...
- 1/31/2023
- by Wren Graves
- Consequence - Film News
Bob and I started spending more time in Detroit, his hometown. We had our big family wedding there, where Bob Seger and Hank Williams Jr. sang for us. Our life in Detroit was full of music. I took for granted all those nights with Hank, Zz Top, Uncle Kracker, Eminem, and Bob’s band. To be around such talent was inspiring. It was a true rock-and-roll lifestyle, gritty and soulful. Detroit had an energy all its own.
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Bob had taken on a lot...
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Bob had taken on a lot...
- 1/31/2023
- by Pamela Anderson
- Rollingstone.com
Here’s a cocktail for you — let’s call it the “Blonde.” Start with a base of biographical fiction, add three parts mid-century photography, a heavy dash of bitters, a wash of bad taste and top with a Lynchian float. You’ll have something that kicks hard, if leaving you somewhat worse for wear once the intoxicants run their course.
And to push this analogy further than needed, director Andrew Dominik’s long-awaited Marilyn Monroe biopic is somehow less about the actress and more about his own showmanship. Think of Dominik as a flair bartender.
Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, “Blonde” holds stardom to the light and finds nothing but an unending nightmare. If technically an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name, the film uses that source as a launch pad, a framework on which to pin countless other inspirations, most of them visual.
Also...
And to push this analogy further than needed, director Andrew Dominik’s long-awaited Marilyn Monroe biopic is somehow less about the actress and more about his own showmanship. Think of Dominik as a flair bartender.
Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, “Blonde” holds stardom to the light and finds nothing but an unending nightmare. If technically an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name, the film uses that source as a launch pad, a framework on which to pin countless other inspirations, most of them visual.
Also...
- 9/8/2022
- by Ben Croll
- The Wrap
Rarely one finds a friend on the Criterion Channel—discounting the parasitic relationship we form with filmmakers, I mean—but it’s great seeing their March lineup give light to Sophy Romvari, the <bias>exceptionally talented</bias> filmmaker and curator whose work has perhaps earned comparisons to Agnès Varda and Chantal Akerman but charts its own path of history and reflection. It’s a good way to lead into an exceptionally strong month, featuring as it does numerous films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the great Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara, newfound cult classic Arrebato, and a number of Criterion editions.
On the last front we have The Age of Innocence, Bull Durham, A Raisin in the Sun, The Celebration, Merrily We Go to Hell, and Design for Living. There’s always something lingering on the watchlist, but it might have to wait a second longer—March is an opened floodgate.
See the full...
On the last front we have The Age of Innocence, Bull Durham, A Raisin in the Sun, The Celebration, Merrily We Go to Hell, and Design for Living. There’s always something lingering on the watchlist, but it might have to wait a second longer—March is an opened floodgate.
See the full...
- 2/21/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
George Wein — the legendary festival promoter who helped turn the Newport Jazz and Folk festivals into fixtures of the American concert calendar, founded the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and paved the way for the modern music fest — died Monday at age 95. His spokesperson Carolyn McClair announced the news.
“It is with immense sadness that we let you know of the passing of our founder and north star, George Wein,” read a note posted on both Newport fests’ Twitter accounts. “We have all lost a giant champion of jazz,...
“It is with immense sadness that we let you know of the passing of our founder and north star, George Wein,” read a note posted on both Newport fests’ Twitter accounts. “We have all lost a giant champion of jazz,...
- 9/13/2021
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Powerful musical moments are undercut by exasperating blandness in this rerelease of Bert Stern’s film of the 1958 Newport jazz festival
This rerelease of Bert Stern’s filmed record of the 1958 Newport jazz festival happens to arrive in the UK just after Summer of Soul, about the 1969 Harlem cultural festival, known then as the “Black Woodstock”. Both events and both movies feature the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson – but there the comparison ends. Where Summer of Soul is amazingly vibrant and passionate, Jazz on a Summer’s Day is exasperatingly sedate and restrained and often just bloodless and dull, despite some occasionally intriguing musical offerings from musicians such as Thelonious Monk, George Shearing and Gerry Mulligan; Chuck Berry is there, on his bland best behaviour, and finally we get some powerfully charismatic appearances from Louis Armstrong and Jackson herself.
During the daytime, the movie bizarrely intercuts shots of the musicians on...
This rerelease of Bert Stern’s filmed record of the 1958 Newport jazz festival happens to arrive in the UK just after Summer of Soul, about the 1969 Harlem cultural festival, known then as the “Black Woodstock”. Both events and both movies feature the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson – but there the comparison ends. Where Summer of Soul is amazingly vibrant and passionate, Jazz on a Summer’s Day is exasperatingly sedate and restrained and often just bloodless and dull, despite some occasionally intriguing musical offerings from musicians such as Thelonious Monk, George Shearing and Gerry Mulligan; Chuck Berry is there, on his bland best behaviour, and finally we get some powerfully charismatic appearances from Louis Armstrong and Jackson herself.
During the daytime, the movie bizarrely intercuts shots of the musicians on...
- 8/27/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Northern Ireland Screen has backed seven feature documentaries in the last year.
Northern Ireland’s documentary scene is thriving as the third annual Docs Ireland festival opens in Beflast today, Wednesday, August 25. Features from Northern Irish filmmakers Teresa Lavina and Brendan Byrne are being showcased in a programme that also includes two features in the Irish language.
The festival was created in 2019 as part of the existing Belfast Film Festival. It aims to turn the spotlight on the storytelling output of Irish and international non-fiction filmmakers, as well as leading international documentary filmmakers and also includes industry events and a marketplace.
Northern Ireland’s documentary scene is thriving as the third annual Docs Ireland festival opens in Beflast today, Wednesday, August 25. Features from Northern Irish filmmakers Teresa Lavina and Brendan Byrne are being showcased in a programme that also includes two features in the Irish language.
The festival was created in 2019 as part of the existing Belfast Film Festival. It aims to turn the spotlight on the storytelling output of Irish and international non-fiction filmmakers, as well as leading international documentary filmmakers and also includes industry events and a marketplace.
- 8/25/2021
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
An Easy Girl (Rebecca Zlotowski)
The director herself calls An Easy Girl a “simple film on a complex subject,” which is as fine a one-liner as I’ll ever come up with. This is a straightforward coming-of-age story from France, a country for whom this is almost a national cliché, but elevated by a key eye for gender roles of its protagonists and an up-to-date message for a teenage generation growing up in a #MeToo world. – Ed F. (full review)
Where to Stream: Netflix
Capone (Josh Trank)
Thanks to a bout of syphilis contracted before the age of fifteen, Alphonse Gabriel “Scarface” Capone found himself trapped inside a prison...
An Easy Girl (Rebecca Zlotowski)
The director herself calls An Easy Girl a “simple film on a complex subject,” which is as fine a one-liner as I’ll ever come up with. This is a straightforward coming-of-age story from France, a country for whom this is almost a national cliché, but elevated by a key eye for gender roles of its protagonists and an up-to-date message for a teenage generation growing up in a #MeToo world. – Ed F. (full review)
Where to Stream: Netflix
Capone (Josh Trank)
Thanks to a bout of syphilis contracted before the age of fifteen, Alphonse Gabriel “Scarface” Capone found himself trapped inside a prison...
- 8/14/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The first feature-length concert film with live sound, Jazz on a Summer’s Day paved the way for movies like Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Photographing the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, director Bert Stern and his crew captured performances by Thelonious Monk, Dinah Washington and Louis Armstrong, among many others. A historic achievement, added to the National Film Registry in 1999, it was the first opportunity for some viewers to see these stars on stage, in color. To celebrate the film’s 60th anniversary, the non-profit IndieCollect and the National Film Preservation Foundation financed a new, 4K restoration that enhanced the soundtrack as well as the color camerawork. The restoration played to sold-out screenings at last year’s New York Film Festival, and is now streaming available via Kino Lorber’s Virtual Cinema platform Kino Marquee. With the film now available for a wider audience, the makings of capturing this momentous event provide...
- 8/14/2020
- by Daniel Eagan
- The Film Stage
"We are at the jazz festival, and let me tell you it is really wonderful." Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for a 4K restoration re-release of a classic concert doc called Jazz on a Summer's Day. Legendary photographer Bert Stern's groundbreaking concert documentary shot at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival featuring performances by Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O’Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson and more. The 1959 classic is considered one of the most extraordinary and possibly the first concert film ever made. The film was named to the National Film Registry in 1999, and its restoration was funded by the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress in time to celebrate the film's 60th Anniversary. This looks like an awesome film to see in 4K in a cinema with full-on sound! An exceptional round of jazz music from some of the finest musicians...
- 7/30/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It’s a summer without live music, among many other things, but one can live cathartically through classic concert films. One of the most acclaimed of its kind has received a new 4K restoration by IndieCollect and after a world premiere at last year’s New York Film Festival, it will now be arriving to theaters, virtual cinemas, and drive-ins courtesy of Kino Lorber Repertory.
Jazz on a Summer’s Day captures a classic series of performances that occurred at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and features Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O’Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, as well as a midnight performance of The Lord’s Prayer by Mahalia Jackson.
Directed by Bert Stern, the film was named to the National Film Registry in 1999, and its restoration was funded by the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress in time to celebrate the film’s 60th Anniversary.
Jazz on a Summer’s Day captures a classic series of performances that occurred at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and features Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O’Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, as well as a midnight performance of The Lord’s Prayer by Mahalia Jackson.
Directed by Bert Stern, the film was named to the National Film Registry in 1999, and its restoration was funded by the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress in time to celebrate the film’s 60th Anniversary.
- 7/24/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Sue Lyon, the actress who played the title role in Stanley Kubrick’s controversial 1962 film Lolita, has died at the age of 73.
Lyon’s friend Phil Syracopoulos confirmed the actress’ death to the New York Times, noting that she died in Los Angeles Thursday following a period of declining health. No cause of death was provided.
The Iowa-born Lyon, then 14 with only a handful of small television roles to her credit, was cast over the 800 young actresses who reportedly auditioned for the role of Dolores Haze in the adaptation of...
Lyon’s friend Phil Syracopoulos confirmed the actress’ death to the New York Times, noting that she died in Los Angeles Thursday following a period of declining health. No cause of death was provided.
The Iowa-born Lyon, then 14 with only a handful of small television roles to her credit, was cast over the 800 young actresses who reportedly auditioned for the role of Dolores Haze in the adaptation of...
- 12/28/2019
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
IndieCollect oversaw 4K restoration. Film will open in 2020 theatrically and on new VOD platform.
Kino Lorber has acquired Us and all international rights to Bert Stern’s recent 57th New York Film Festival revival screening Jazz On A Summer’s Day, in collaboration with longtime partner Adopt Films.
The film will release the 1959 film – regarded as one of the first live concert films – theatrically in 2020 before making it available on the company’s new VOD platform KinoNow, and home video.
IndieCollect oversaw a 4K restoration on Jazz On A Summer’s Day, with colour correction by Oskar Miarka. The film...
Kino Lorber has acquired Us and all international rights to Bert Stern’s recent 57th New York Film Festival revival screening Jazz On A Summer’s Day, in collaboration with longtime partner Adopt Films.
The film will release the 1959 film – regarded as one of the first live concert films – theatrically in 2020 before making it available on the company’s new VOD platform KinoNow, and home video.
IndieCollect oversaw a 4K restoration on Jazz On A Summer’s Day, with colour correction by Oskar Miarka. The film...
- 10/21/2019
- ScreenDaily
Morrison Hotel Gallery today announced its new contemporary photography collection in collaboration with CondéNast. Curated by photographer Timothy White and Condé Nast Corporate Photography Director Ivan Shaw, this collection features work from master photographers including Edward Steichen, George Hoyningen-Huene, John Rawlings, and Bert Stern.
The photos presented to Variety date are circa the late 1960s/ early 1970s, and include shots of Jim Morrison with model Donna Mitchell, one of Cher sporting a truly stunning pair of period sunglasses, a young and shirtless Iggy Pop, Barbra Streisand in some lace finery from the era, and Miles Davis with an unidentified young woman, sporting some truly stunning bell bottoms and boots, in the style that he frequently wore onstage during his rock phase of the early-to-mid 1970s.
The exhibit will initially be posted online starting at 12 p.m. Et Monday at https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/, with events at the Morrison Hotels in...
The photos presented to Variety date are circa the late 1960s/ early 1970s, and include shots of Jim Morrison with model Donna Mitchell, one of Cher sporting a truly stunning pair of period sunglasses, a young and shirtless Iggy Pop, Barbra Streisand in some lace finery from the era, and Miles Davis with an unidentified young woman, sporting some truly stunning bell bottoms and boots, in the style that he frequently wore onstage during his rock phase of the early-to-mid 1970s.
The exhibit will initially be posted online starting at 12 p.m. Et Monday at https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/, with events at the Morrison Hotels in...
- 10/7/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Elton John was about two-thirds of the way though his set on the opening night of his farewell tour at Allentown, Pennsylvania’s Ppl Center when he paused the tell the audience why he’s calling it quits. “I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you’ve given to me these past 50 years,” he said. “But I have the most beautiful family and I really need to spend more time with them. I know you understand since a lot of you have children of your own.
- 9/9/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Eric Hughes is known for creating colorful, one-of-a-kind spaces for his celeb clients, but the interior designer takes a more neutral approach to his own New York City home.
“This is my idea of a quintessential New York apartment,” he says of his Manhattan pad. “I used gray flannel everywhere.”
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A black-and-white print he found at an art fair and had enlarged adds drama in the living room. “I think it’s a really powerful, beautiful image,” explains Hughes, who counts Andy Cohen,...
“This is my idea of a quintessential New York apartment,” he says of his Manhattan pad. “I used gray flannel everywhere.”
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A black-and-white print he found at an art fair and had enlarged adds drama in the living room. “I think it’s a really powerful, beautiful image,” explains Hughes, who counts Andy Cohen,...
- 10/25/2017
- by Megan Stein
- PEOPLE.com
It’s not even Christmas yet, and already Khloé Kardashian has fans feeling major gift envy.
The 32-year-old Keeping Up with the Kardashians star took to Snapchat on Friday to show off some stunning gifts she received from mom Kris Jenner and friends Jennifer Lopez, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend.
Jennifer, 61, gifted her middle girl two original photographs of icon Marilyn Monroe.
“If anyone knows me they know I have a true obsession with Marilyn Monroe,” Kardashian gushed on Snapchat, showing off the pictures. “I mean, can you not die?”
“They’re both signed by the photographers,” she continued. “This...
The 32-year-old Keeping Up with the Kardashians star took to Snapchat on Friday to show off some stunning gifts she received from mom Kris Jenner and friends Jennifer Lopez, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend.
Jennifer, 61, gifted her middle girl two original photographs of icon Marilyn Monroe.
“If anyone knows me they know I have a true obsession with Marilyn Monroe,” Kardashian gushed on Snapchat, showing off the pictures. “I mean, can you not die?”
“They’re both signed by the photographers,” she continued. “This...
- 12/24/2016
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
A famous celebrity photographer and Marilyn Monroe are just two of the many roles available now in Backstage’s casting notices! “The Bert Stern Story”Writer-director Sam Thorn of Star Productions is casting a docudrama based on a true story. Celebrity photographer Bert Stern was, as the notice says, “a brooding introspective artist with flashes of manic energy”; that role and several others—including Marilyn Monroe!—are available now for a New York City shoot in August. “Dancers In Public Space”Calling all NYC-based dancers! This gig needs contemporary and pointe dancers for a photo shoot, which will involve posing in public spaces. Warm up those limbs and get ready for photographer Sharmila Narwani’s shoot, to take place July 9–13 in the Big Apple. Independent Psychedelic Musical MELODRAMAThis musical melodrama from Tapedeck Productions follows a man, newly arrived in New York, in pursuit of his former love. “As he tries...
- 5/25/2016
- backstage.com
Whether intentionally or not, Paul Thomas Anderson seems to have spent the last 15 or so years doing his darnedest to avoid being pigeonholed as “the next such-and-such,” to the point that the bulk of his career could probably be plotted out as a series of evasive and flanking maneuvers. What used to be most identifiable characteristics of his style—whip pans, Scorsese-isms, extended Steadicam and handheld shots—are now a thing of the past; the only things that have remained consistent are his superb direction of actors, attentiveness to the craft of making celluloid images, and tendency to tackle themes that are generally described as “big” and “American.” It makes sense, then, that Anderson’s latest should be a documentary, shot digitally in India on equipment small enough to fit in a carry-on bag, where five minutes will pass without as much as a spoken word. Running under an hour...
- 10/27/2015
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- MUBI
Paul Thomas Anderson‘s new documentary, Junun, premiered last night at the New York Film Festival and has already debuted on Mubi globally, but for those looking for a preview, today we have the first trailer. The film follows his trek with Jonny Greenwood to Rajasthan in northwest India, where he and a group of musicians recorded an album (out on November 13th via Nonesuch) and were hosted by the Maharaja of Jodhpur.
While the director’s post-screening at Alice Tully Hall was quite brief, he did provide a few new details related to the project. Revealing the film was shot on the same Jodhpur location as in The Dark Knight Rises, he also said he attempted to shoot it with “newfangled, sexy camera gear” that got caught up in customs “and never made it out.” So, as one can see in the film, he just used what he had in his bag,...
While the director’s post-screening at Alice Tully Hall was quite brief, he did provide a few new details related to the project. Revealing the film was shot on the same Jodhpur location as in The Dark Knight Rises, he also said he attempted to shoot it with “newfangled, sexy camera gear” that got caught up in customs “and never made it out.” So, as one can see in the film, he just used what he had in his bag,...
- 10/9/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, Finding Vivian Maier documents Maloof’s journey to discover more about Vivian Maier after purchasing a box of her negatives in 2007. He began the search a few years later, after he realized the negatives consisted of some of the best undeveloped street photography of the 20th century. After some searching, it was revealed that Maier was a career-nanny who had died in 2009.
Since the documentary is in serious contention for a best documentary feature Oscar, we thought we’d check to see how many other photography-related films have managed to resonate with the Academy’s documentary branch and land a nomination in the same category. We found six.
The Naked Eye (1956)
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Louis Clyde Stoumen, this documentary celebrates photography through history by looking at pioneers in the field, such as Margaret Bourke-White. Though he covers works by multiple photographers,...
Managing Editor
Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, Finding Vivian Maier documents Maloof’s journey to discover more about Vivian Maier after purchasing a box of her negatives in 2007. He began the search a few years later, after he realized the negatives consisted of some of the best undeveloped street photography of the 20th century. After some searching, it was revealed that Maier was a career-nanny who had died in 2009.
Since the documentary is in serious contention for a best documentary feature Oscar, we thought we’d check to see how many other photography-related films have managed to resonate with the Academy’s documentary branch and land a nomination in the same category. We found six.
The Naked Eye (1956)
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Louis Clyde Stoumen, this documentary celebrates photography through history by looking at pioneers in the field, such as Margaret Bourke-White. Though he covers works by multiple photographers,...
- 11/7/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Behind the camera of Bert Stern lies a heated family feud. The photographer died in 2013 at the age of 83 and left behind some iconic images of Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, and some of the most famous ones of Marilyn Monroe. His work has been featured in the Museum of Modern Art, and as a contemporary of such masters as Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Stern's life and work were profiled in the documentary, Bert Stern: Original Madman, which is now at the center of a great legal controversy. The filmmaker behind that film is Shannah Laumeister, who
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- 10/31/2014
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
John Malkovich photos: How to look like a model, from Marilyn Monroe to Albert Einstein (image: John Malkovich as Marilyn Monroe in Bert Stern's 1962 portrait 'Marilyn in Pink Roses') Whether you found Spike Jonze's 1999 mind-invading comedy Being John Malkovich a pretentious bore or the most innovative motion picture since Georges Méliès' The Man with the India-Rubber Head, you'll probably enjoy Sandro Miller's series of John Malkovich photos, in which the two-time Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nominee becomes the real-life characters in some of the most celebrated (and mostly pop, U.S.-made) photographs ever taken. Malkovich's various guises will be featured in the exhibit "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters," which runs from November 7, 2014, to January 31, 2015, at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago. In Being John Malkovich, the likes of John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener discover an escape from their drab lives...
- 9/25/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
John Malkovich as Marilyn Monroe is perhaps a confounding image to think about, but the eccentric actor inhabits her persona, as well as a variety of others, in a new body of work from photographer Sandro Miller.
In Miller’s series Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich, the actor poses for Miller, who faithfully recreates some of history’s most iconic photographs, using Malkovich as the sole subject. In some cases that means Malkovich’s playing another celebrity, for instance, John Lennon nakedly cradling Yoko Ono in Miller’s take on Annie Leibovitz. In other instances he becomes the more anonymous figures who are nonetheless instantly recognizable,...
In Miller’s series Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich, the actor poses for Miller, who faithfully recreates some of history’s most iconic photographs, using Malkovich as the sole subject. In some cases that means Malkovich’s playing another celebrity, for instance, John Lennon nakedly cradling Yoko Ono in Miller’s take on Annie Leibovitz. In other instances he becomes the more anonymous figures who are nonetheless instantly recognizable,...
- 9/22/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW.com - PopWatch
Jessica Chastain has been cast as Marilyn Monroe in director Andrew Dominik's upcoming biopic Blonde.
Brad Pitt's Plan B and Worldview Entertainment will produce the adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's 2001 novel of the same title, which Naomi Watts originally signed up to star in.
From Michelle Williams to Kerry Katona, we compile 12 other actresses who have portrayed or paid tribute to Hollywood's original blonde bombshell below.
Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams was Oscar-nominated for her critically-acclaimed performance as Monroe in Simon Curtis's My Week with Marilyn (2011). The movie centered on Monroe's fraught relationship with her then co-star Laurence Olivier, played by Kenneth Branagh, during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl in Britain.
Reflecting upon the role, Williams said: "Gosh, sometimes I can't even believe I did it because the challenges were just...
"In a way, you had to remove the fact that she was an...
Brad Pitt's Plan B and Worldview Entertainment will produce the adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's 2001 novel of the same title, which Naomi Watts originally signed up to star in.
From Michelle Williams to Kerry Katona, we compile 12 other actresses who have portrayed or paid tribute to Hollywood's original blonde bombshell below.
Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams was Oscar-nominated for her critically-acclaimed performance as Monroe in Simon Curtis's My Week with Marilyn (2011). The movie centered on Monroe's fraught relationship with her then co-star Laurence Olivier, played by Kenneth Branagh, during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl in Britain.
Reflecting upon the role, Williams said: "Gosh, sometimes I can't even believe I did it because the challenges were just...
"In a way, you had to remove the fact that she was an...
- 4/23/2014
- Digital Spy
Highly individual American drummer, bandleader and jazz visionary who toured with Lena Horne in the 1950s
A hundred years into its evolution, jazz incorporates ethnic and European classical instruments, drum machines and DJs spinning decks. A half-century or so ago, hardware habits were more cut and dried. A jazz big band had trumpets, trombones, saxes and a rhythm section. A small band had a rhythm section, a sax and trumpet, with maybe a guitar or a vibraphone. One that featured a (very quiet) guitarist, a flute or clarinet, a cellist, and a drummer who preferred mallets to sticks seemed like a strange beast in the jazz forest.
But the groups of the American drummer Chico Hamilton, who has died aged 92, did feature such instrumentation and, contrary to the jazz orthodoxies of the 1950s, they were for a time runaway successes. Hamilton led West Coast bands in that decade that came...
A hundred years into its evolution, jazz incorporates ethnic and European classical instruments, drum machines and DJs spinning decks. A half-century or so ago, hardware habits were more cut and dried. A jazz big band had trumpets, trombones, saxes and a rhythm section. A small band had a rhythm section, a sax and trumpet, with maybe a guitar or a vibraphone. One that featured a (very quiet) guitarist, a flute or clarinet, a cellist, and a drummer who preferred mallets to sticks seemed like a strange beast in the jazz forest.
But the groups of the American drummer Chico Hamilton, who has died aged 92, did feature such instrumentation and, contrary to the jazz orthodoxies of the 1950s, they were for a time runaway successes. Hamilton led West Coast bands in that decade that came...
- 11/26/2013
- by John Fordham
- The Guardian - Film News
Washington, Sep 23: Late celebrity photographer Bert Stern's three adult children are fighting for his wealth with his young wife.
Stern came into limelight after famously clicking provocative, nude photos of Marilyn Monroe just six weeks before her death.
Two competing wills, which were signed 13 years apart, are in the middle of the legal spat in Manhattan Surrogate's Court over Stern's 10-million-dollar-fortune, the New York Post reported.
Stern's first will, which was signed by him in 1997, said that 50 percent of his wealth should be divided equally between his two daughters and son, and the rest, about 5.
Stern came into limelight after famously clicking provocative, nude photos of Marilyn Monroe just six weeks before her death.
Two competing wills, which were signed 13 years apart, are in the middle of the legal spat in Manhattan Surrogate's Court over Stern's 10-million-dollar-fortune, the New York Post reported.
Stern's first will, which was signed by him in 1997, said that 50 percent of his wealth should be divided equally between his two daughters and son, and the rest, about 5.
- 9/23/2013
- by Arun Pandit
- RealBollywood.com
Title: Bert Stern: Original Mad Man Directed by: Shannah Laumeister Starring: Bert Stern, Shannah Laumeister, Twiggy, Allegra Kent, Marilyn Monroe Running time: 89 Minutes, Unrated Special Features: Photo Gallery, Iconic Images, Director Bio Even if you’ve never heard of Bert Stern, you’ve probably seen one of his photographs. Shannah Laumeister directs a love letter to the man who calls her his muse and love of her life by capturing in his own words his thoughts behind the lens. His legal woes involving his photo session with Marilyn Monroe, his techniques to find inspiration for his iconic photographs and history behind them. Bert Stern is one of the most interesting men [ Read More ]
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- 8/13/2013
- by juliana
- ShockYa
Fifty-one years ago this week, on August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe passed away. But the world hasn't lost her, even more than a half-century after her death. Need proof? Here are 5 reasons her legacy continues to endure:
1. Marilyn Monroe is the new face of Sexy Hair.
The star embodies the ad campaign's slogan -- "Style changes. Sexy is forever" -- better than anyone else.
2. Marilyn Monroe influences today's celebrities.
Lindsay Lohan, for one, has often been compared to Marilyn Monroe. Featured here in a photo shoot by photographer Bert Stern for New York Magazine, Lohan is a caricature of Marilyn Monroe. Other contemporary stars who imitated Marilyn Monroe include Madonna in the music video for "Material Girl" and Drew Barrymore in many red carpet appearances.
3. She has a Twitter account.
Marilyn Monroe's estate maintains a Twitter account in her name. She has more followers than many celebrities that are alive and tweeting for themselves these days.
1. Marilyn Monroe is the new face of Sexy Hair.
The star embodies the ad campaign's slogan -- "Style changes. Sexy is forever" -- better than anyone else.
2. Marilyn Monroe influences today's celebrities.
Lindsay Lohan, for one, has often been compared to Marilyn Monroe. Featured here in a photo shoot by photographer Bert Stern for New York Magazine, Lohan is a caricature of Marilyn Monroe. Other contemporary stars who imitated Marilyn Monroe include Madonna in the music video for "Material Girl" and Drew Barrymore in many red carpet appearances.
3. She has a Twitter account.
Marilyn Monroe's estate maintains a Twitter account in her name. She has more followers than many celebrities that are alive and tweeting for themselves these days.
- 8/6/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Philadelphia — A rare portfolio of photographs from Marilyn Monroe's last sitting is up for grabs to the highest bidder.
Freeman's auction house in Philadelphia estimates the limited-edition portfolio of 10 photos, made from fashion photographer Bert Stern's original negatives from his June 1962 assignment for Vogue, could fetch $10,000 to $15,000 when it goes on the block Sept. 10.
The photos will be on view to the public starting Sept. 6, said Aimee Pflieger, head of the century-old auction house's photography division.
Stern, who died in June at age 83, took more than 2,500 photos of the Hollywood icon over three days at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. The 20-by-20-inch portfolio photos are from the first day, when Stern and Monroe were alone before the arrival of a cadre of Vogue staffers, and project a feeling of spontaneity and playfulness that stands out from the others.
"He brought a turntable and speakers and three cases of champagne,...
Freeman's auction house in Philadelphia estimates the limited-edition portfolio of 10 photos, made from fashion photographer Bert Stern's original negatives from his June 1962 assignment for Vogue, could fetch $10,000 to $15,000 when it goes on the block Sept. 10.
The photos will be on view to the public starting Sept. 6, said Aimee Pflieger, head of the century-old auction house's photography division.
Stern, who died in June at age 83, took more than 2,500 photos of the Hollywood icon over three days at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. The 20-by-20-inch portfolio photos are from the first day, when Stern and Monroe were alone before the arrival of a cadre of Vogue staffers, and project a feeling of spontaneity and playfulness that stands out from the others.
"He brought a turntable and speakers and three cases of champagne,...
- 8/4/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
If you lived in New York City or anywhere else along the East Coast in the 1950s, the place to go to fix your "jazz jones" was the funereal old-money resort town of Newport, Rhode Island. Started in 1954 by socialites Elaine and Louis Lorillard, the Newport Jazz Festival had grown by 1958 into a four-day event attracting 60,000 music lovers ready to snap their fingers and bob their heads to the sounds of America's top jazz artists. Fortunately, that same summer Bert Stern and a small filmmaking crew captured the essence of those performances on 35mm color film accompanied by impeccable sound recordings.
In the 1950s, Bert Stern was best known as the photographer who combined art with advertising, as seen in the recent Austin FIlm Society Doc Nights presentation: Bert Stern: Original Mad Man. The gifted artist also created TV commercials, took fashion photos for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and...
In the 1950s, Bert Stern was best known as the photographer who combined art with advertising, as seen in the recent Austin FIlm Society Doc Nights presentation: Bert Stern: Original Mad Man. The gifted artist also created TV commercials, took fashion photos for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and...
- 7/30/2013
- by Chale Nafus
- Slackerwood
DVD Release Date: July 16, 2013
Price: DVD $27.95
Studio: First Run Features
Bert Stern puts things into focus in Original Mad Man.
Bert Stern: Original Mad Man is a 2012 documentary film on the life and work of the iconic American photographer, who died two weeks ago on June 26 at the age of 83.
After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Stern became an original Madison Avenue “mad man,” his images helping to create modern advertising. Groundbreaking photos of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe, Twiggy and the infamous Lolita image from Kubrick’s film, coupled with his astonishing success in advertising, minted Stern – along with Irving Penn and Richard Avedon – as a celebrity in his own right; indeed, Stern’s photographs of Monroe in her last sitting– taken for Vogue six weeks before her death—are considered to be the ultimate images of the 20th century icon.
The film was...
Price: DVD $27.95
Studio: First Run Features
Bert Stern puts things into focus in Original Mad Man.
Bert Stern: Original Mad Man is a 2012 documentary film on the life and work of the iconic American photographer, who died two weeks ago on June 26 at the age of 83.
After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Stern became an original Madison Avenue “mad man,” his images helping to create modern advertising. Groundbreaking photos of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe, Twiggy and the infamous Lolita image from Kubrick’s film, coupled with his astonishing success in advertising, minted Stern – along with Irving Penn and Richard Avedon – as a celebrity in his own right; indeed, Stern’s photographs of Monroe in her last sitting– taken for Vogue six weeks before her death—are considered to be the ultimate images of the 20th century icon.
The film was...
- 7/8/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The Czech poster for Robert Bresson’s Une femme douce by Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová is one of my favorite posters of all-time: an extraordinarily arresting, beautifully executed piece of Czech surrealism that yet has a strong thematic and visual connection to the film itself. (The girl wrapped in her own hair could be the isolated and suicidal character played by Dominique Sanda.) So I was taken aback when a friend pointed out this photograph recently.
The photograph is apparently by the great fashion and celebrity photographer Bert Stern, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 83. Stern, who was the subject of the documentary Bert Stern: Original Mad Man that was released earlier this year, is best known for his hundreds of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken weeks before her death. But his most famous connection to movie posters is that he took the photographs of Sue Lyons wearing...
The photograph is apparently by the great fashion and celebrity photographer Bert Stern, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 83. Stern, who was the subject of the documentary Bert Stern: Original Mad Man that was released earlier this year, is best known for his hundreds of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken weeks before her death. But his most famous connection to movie posters is that he took the photographs of Sue Lyons wearing...
- 6/28/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
This beautiful poster for Xan Cassavetes’s vampire yarn Kiss of the Damned, which opens in theaters today, was designed and illustrated by Akiko Stehrenberger, whom I interviewed in 2010 after having selected her Funny Games poster as my favorite movie poster of the last decade.
I asked Akiko recently if she would choose ten of her all-time favorite posters to share with us, to give us an idea of her influences and aesthetic leanings, but first of all we spoke about the inspiration behind this delightfully retro poster. She told me how she was definitely inspired by the work of the great American poster illustrator Bob Peak (1927-1992).
“I took notes from his Petulia and Funny Girl, where things fall away to white and become a simplified graphic element. This falling away to white technique, I also incorporate into my own personal portrait work.”
“I also took a big lead...
I asked Akiko recently if she would choose ten of her all-time favorite posters to share with us, to give us an idea of her influences and aesthetic leanings, but first of all we spoke about the inspiration behind this delightfully retro poster. She told me how she was definitely inspired by the work of the great American poster illustrator Bob Peak (1927-1992).
“I took notes from his Petulia and Funny Girl, where things fall away to white and become a simplified graphic element. This falling away to white technique, I also incorporate into my own personal portrait work.”
“I also took a big lead...
- 5/3/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
We've seen an explosion in fashion world documentaries over the past years with "The September Issue," "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel," "Bill Cunningham New York," "In Vogue: The Editor's Eye" and so much more all casting various perspectives on an industry that has seen haute couture fall right into the mainstream. But fashion photography, and even contemporary advertising, wouldn't be the same without the contributions of Bert Stern, and it's the central premise of "Bert Stern: The Original Mad Man." While the now 83-year-old undoubtedly has his own insights and perceptions on where fashion has gone and where it is going, as he says in the documentary, he's reached a "dead end" and needs "something to do," and that feeling of listlessness pervades director Shannah Laumeister's effort despite her best intentions. The curious thing is, Laumeister is actually Stern's (much younger) partner, and if anyone would seem capable of opening him up,...
- 4/3/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Madonna has had many reincarnations throughout her life, but her racy sex phase throughout the 90s was arguably her most prolific period. One iconic photograph of the singer/actress/performer shot in 1990 and printed in 1991 sums up her transformation to come in the following decade. Fashion photographer Steven Meisel captured this in one black-and-white photograph titled "Madonna," now up for auction at Bonhams along with 169 other famous images. The photograph is estimated to fetch $5,000 to $7,000.
"Madonna" features the pop icon lying on her back, naked on a bed with a sheet loosely covering her nether regions. Her platinum blonde hair is in a mess of curls on her head, her eyes heavily doused with makeup. She stares directly into the camera while smoking a cigarette. It's provocative, it's sexy, it's direct -- everything Madonna was going for at the time. Despite the many evolutions of Madonna then and since, her...
"Madonna" features the pop icon lying on her back, naked on a bed with a sheet loosely covering her nether regions. Her platinum blonde hair is in a mess of curls on her head, her eyes heavily doused with makeup. She stares directly into the camera while smoking a cigarette. It's provocative, it's sexy, it's direct -- everything Madonna was going for at the time. Despite the many evolutions of Madonna then and since, her...
- 4/30/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
London, Apr 28: Rare nude photographs of screen siren Marilyn Monroe is to go under the hammer and is expected to fetch more than 15,000 pounds.
A complete set of rare vintage chromogenic prints from her last ever photo shoot, in which she posed topless, were taken by photographer Bert Stern in 1962 just six weeks before Monroe was found dead at the age of 36.
Original shots taken from the session, called The Last Sitting, are in huge demand across the world and were originally taken for Vogue magazine.
Because these have.
A complete set of rare vintage chromogenic prints from her last ever photo shoot, in which she posed topless, were taken by photographer Bert Stern in 1962 just six weeks before Monroe was found dead at the age of 36.
Original shots taken from the session, called The Last Sitting, are in huge demand across the world and were originally taken for Vogue magazine.
Because these have.
- 4/28/2012
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
Interest in Marilyn Monroe has surged recently, no doubt thanks to "My Week With Marilyn," and now Taschen has the ultimate Monroe-themed gift for any major fans of the late, great star: "Norman Mailer, Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe."
Priced at $1,000, the limited-edition tome brings together Norman Mailer's 1973 biography of Monroe with Bert Stern's now-legendary photos. Only 1,962 books have been printed and all are signed by Stern. If you're feeling particularly generous, there is an even more limited and exclusive edition priced at $2,500.
Stern's photos, known as "The Last Sitting," were shot over three days at the Bel Air Hotel for Vogue magazine, and include the iconic images of Monroe provocatively lolling about, clad only in a scarf and ones of her donning a black wig, imitating Jackie Kennedy.
Just six weeks later, Monroe was found dead.
At the time, Stern didn't see anything controversial about his Monroe photos...
Priced at $1,000, the limited-edition tome brings together Norman Mailer's 1973 biography of Monroe with Bert Stern's now-legendary photos. Only 1,962 books have been printed and all are signed by Stern. If you're feeling particularly generous, there is an even more limited and exclusive edition priced at $2,500.
Stern's photos, known as "The Last Sitting," were shot over three days at the Bel Air Hotel for Vogue magazine, and include the iconic images of Monroe provocatively lolling about, clad only in a scarf and ones of her donning a black wig, imitating Jackie Kennedy.
Just six weeks later, Monroe was found dead.
At the time, Stern didn't see anything controversial about his Monroe photos...
- 12/7/2011
- by Nicki Gostin
- Huffington Post
In mid-December, Taschen Books releases what is perhaps the most weighty tribute to Marilyn Monroe ever produced: an 18-pound limited-edition art book titled Norman Mailer, Bert Stern: Marilyn Monroe. Each book, clocking in at almost two feet tall and wide, is signed by Bert Stern, who shot sessions with Monroe on assignment with Vogue magazine over the course of two weekends just six weeks before her death in 1962. The intimate portraits, which ranged from nude to fashion shots, are paired with Norman Mailer's 1973 biography Marilyn in this gorgeously executed book. The $1,000 book runs
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- 12/7/2011
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"In 1976," notes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times, "the year that Marilyn Monroe would have turned 50, Larry McMurtry wrote that she 'is right in there with our major ghosts: Hemingway, the Kennedy brothers — people who finished with American life before America had time to finish with them.' Almost a half-century after her death, the world, or at least its necrophiliac fantasists, still haven't finished with Monroe and try to resurrect her again and again in movies, books, songs and glamour layouts featuring dewy and ruined ingénues. Maybe it's because it's so difficult to imagine her as Old Marilyn that she has become a Ghost of Hollywood Past, a phantom that periodically materializes to show us things that have been. The latest attempt at resurrection occurs in My Week With Marilyn, with Michelle Williams as the Ghost."
"The 'my' is Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), a wet-eared assistant director on...
"The 'my' is Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), a wet-eared assistant director on...
- 11/26/2011
- MUBI
Hollywood screen goddess Marilyn Monroe is not only brought back to life in upcoming film, "My Week with Marilyn," starring Michelle Williams, she's also remembered in a "Picturing Marilyn" an exhibit at NYC's Milk Gallery, which features never-before-seen photos of the blonde beauty.
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Some photos include images from photographer Bert Stern's shoot with Monroe at the Bel-Air hotel in June 1962, now known as "The Last Sitting.
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Some photos include images from photographer Bert Stern's shoot with Monroe at the Bel-Air hotel in June 1962, now known as "The Last Sitting.
- 11/11/2011
- Extra
Courtesy Staley-Wise Gallery Bert Stern’s Monroe in the black Dior dress
Marilyn Monroe was photographed hundreds of thousands of times throughout her life, but only one nude portrait exists, according to Taki Wise, co-director of the Staley Wise Gallery. It was taken by Leif-Erik Nygards, assistant to photographer Bert Stern in 1962 and is part of “Picturing Marilyn,” a photography exhibition on view through Sunday at Milk Studios.
Outfitted in matching matte black frames, 56 photographs by the likes of Andre De Dienes,...
Marilyn Monroe was photographed hundreds of thousands of times throughout her life, but only one nude portrait exists, according to Taki Wise, co-director of the Staley Wise Gallery. It was taken by Leif-Erik Nygards, assistant to photographer Bert Stern in 1962 and is part of “Picturing Marilyn,” a photography exhibition on view through Sunday at Milk Studios.
Outfitted in matching matte black frames, 56 photographs by the likes of Andre De Dienes,...
- 11/10/2011
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Reports are circulating -- and mom Dina Lohan has confirmed -- that beleaguered actress Lindsay Lohan is making plans to try to pose for Playboy in a bid to revive her sputtering brand. Since her last nude photo shoot didn't reinvent her as a Hollywood darling, baring her breasts a second time probably won't win her any more points.
Nudity is a funny thing in Hollywood. The Kate Winslets and Julianne Moores of the world can bare all in the name of art and everyone applauds. But for a celebrity on the brink of a professional and personal crisis, the decision to pose nude is often little more than a desperate Hail Mary pass to stay relevant.
Cases in point: Over-augmented "Hills" reality star Heidi Montag negotiated a reported six-figure deal to pose for Playboy when she was closing in on the end of her 15 minutes of fame. This was...
Nudity is a funny thing in Hollywood. The Kate Winslets and Julianne Moores of the world can bare all in the name of art and everyone applauds. But for a celebrity on the brink of a professional and personal crisis, the decision to pose nude is often little more than a desperate Hail Mary pass to stay relevant.
Cases in point: Over-augmented "Hills" reality star Heidi Montag negotiated a reported six-figure deal to pose for Playboy when she was closing in on the end of her 15 minutes of fame. This was...
- 10/25/2011
- by Jo Piazza
- Huffington Post
Lindsay Lohan may not have had a workday performing community service at the Los Angeles County morgue on Monday - but she's working overtime on her behalf. The troubled actress posed for the pages of Playboy magazine. "The photo shoot went well," her mother Dina Lohan tells X17 Online.According to reports, Lindsay will be appearing on the cover, though the magazine wouldn't discuss it. "We are not commenting," a spokesperson for Playboy told People early Tuesday. Lohan's rep, Steve Honig, adds, "I cannot confirm." But earlier this month Honig told People, "We get requests every week wanting to do...
- 10/25/2011
- by Ken Lee and Liz Raftery
- PEOPLE.com
The troubled actress - who was last week told she had to clean morgues for 16 hours a week as part of a court order until a probation hearing on November 2 – will reportedly earn almost $1 million for baring all in the adult magazine.
According to TMZ.com, the 25-year-old star originally turned down a $750,000 offer from Playboy boss Hugh Hefner to pose nude, demanding that the figure should be closer to $1 million.
It is believed the shoot started over the weekend, with Lindsay – who could face up to 18 months in prison if she is found guilty of violating the terms of her probation for a 2007 DUI (driving under the influence) conviction – having to fit it in around her court-ordered morgue duties.
However, this isn't the first time the star has posed naked.
In 2008, the 'Mean Girls' actress stripped off to recreate the infamous 'Last Sitting' shots of Marilyn Monroe,...
According to TMZ.com, the 25-year-old star originally turned down a $750,000 offer from Playboy boss Hugh Hefner to pose nude, demanding that the figure should be closer to $1 million.
It is believed the shoot started over the weekend, with Lindsay – who could face up to 18 months in prison if she is found guilty of violating the terms of her probation for a 2007 DUI (driving under the influence) conviction – having to fit it in around her court-ordered morgue duties.
However, this isn't the first time the star has posed naked.
In 2008, the 'Mean Girls' actress stripped off to recreate the infamous 'Last Sitting' shots of Marilyn Monroe,...
- 10/25/2011
London, Oct 21: A nude photograph of Marilyn Monroe is on sale for 5,000 pounds.hristie's will hold a specialist sale in November to sell the 1962 photograph of Monroe, taken shortly before she died.
The provocative shot is part of a series called The Last Sitting, which catapulted American photographer Bert Stern to fame, the Sun reported.
Bert Stern clicked 2,500 photographs of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 for Vogue magazine, six weeks before the iconic beauty died of a drug overdose.
The celebrity photographer published a book about the sexy shoot, 'Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting', in 1992 and recreated.
The provocative shot is part of a series called The Last Sitting, which catapulted American photographer Bert Stern to fame, the Sun reported.
Bert Stern clicked 2,500 photographs of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 for Vogue magazine, six weeks before the iconic beauty died of a drug overdose.
The celebrity photographer published a book about the sexy shoot, 'Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting', in 1992 and recreated.
- 10/21/2011
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
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