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THE DATE – PART V – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

May 19, 2013 by Vickie Lester

THE DATE PART V: BECAUSE MY LOVE FOR YOU WOULD BREAK MY HEART IN TWO Who Am I? Who Will I Be Now? Rhodes Cardell or Will Makepeace? Those questions haunted him as the day of the date came closer and closer like the waters from an on-rushing river. A week and a half had seemed a more than enough time to make up his mind, to get a handle on his feelings, to calmly compose himself, but he soon […]

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THE DATE PART IV – OR, BE MY BABY – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

May 15, 2013 by Vickie Lester

THE DATE PART IV; OR, BE MY BABY Rhodes Cardell appeared, more or less, his usual self. He was working on a shoot which involved copious part-concealed nudity, and numerous insouciant and cheeky requests of the “would you mind pointing your delicious decolletage a little more to the right, Alyssa” variety spilled from his lips with their usual pep and vulgar charm. All the better to put the models (most of whom were entirely relaxed with nudity anyway) at their […]

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THE DATE PART III – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

May 8, 2013 by Vickie Lester

THE DATE PART III; OR, I’M DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN A date with Isabella Arden! Rhodes Cardell’s mask of insouciant cool cracked, and the face of Will Makepeace could be glimpsed beneath. The same face, but also not. Rhodes’s expression on hearing Isabella affirm that she would, wonder of wonders, like to go out with him was not one that was to be seen in any publicity photos or even his self-portraiture, no, this was a rare sighting […]

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LAUREN BACALL – LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE – HARRY TRUMAN

May 7, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Louise Dahl-Wolfe is credited with discovering Bacall while working for Diane Vreeland at Harper’s Bazaar. On a visit to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on February 10, 1945, Bacall’s press agent, chief of publicity at Warner Bros. Charlie Enfield, asked the 20-year-old Bacall to sit on the piano which was being played by Vice-President of the United States Harry S. Truman. The photos caused controversy and made worldwide headlines. (VIA WIKIPEDIA)

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JOAN CRAWFORD APPLIES MAKEUP – PHOTOGRAPHED BY EVE ARNOLD

May 6, 2013 by Vickie Lester

. BBC – Radio 3 – Eve Arnold Interview.

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THE DATE PART II – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

May 5, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Photograph by Herb Ritts . THE DATE PART II – BY GEORGE KAPLAN . Rhodes Cardell was used to being around women, *lots* of women; often in varying states of undress. He was, he pretended, inured to female nudity, not an eyelid did he bat at an undraped feminine form parading before his camera’s eye, any more than he did at *masculine* nakedness. In truth, that was part of his – carefully manufactured, or at least manicured – mystique. The […]

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THE DATE – A SHORT STORY BY GEORGE KAPLAN

May 1, 2013 by Vickie Lester

. The Date, by George Kaplan . Rhodes Cardell was in a quandary. As was Will Makepeace. Rhodes Cardell was in a panic. So, too, was Will Makepeace. This wasn’t too surprising, because Rhodes Cardell *was* Will Makepeace, or, rather, vice versa. . It was 1983. Rhodes Cardell was a “photographer to the stars” *and* a star photographer; his eye for beauty in both the expected and unexpected had made him a très hot property, though it was his ability to […]

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BARRY LYNDON – IN LA

February 17, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Lady Lyndon on screen in a shimmery blue gown – scenes were shot in natural light and candlelight with special lenses to capture the look of 18th Century paintings. Costumes designed by Milena Canonero and Ulla-Britt Søderlund: .

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2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY – IN LA

February 17, 2013 by Vickie Lester

This is a set model – it’s hanging just above eye level in the gallery. Shooting on the set:

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DR. STRANGELOVE IN LA – DESIGNED BY KEN ADAM (Sir Ken Adam)

February 17, 2013 by Vickie Lester

“Dr. Stangelove” designed by Ken Adam: . . . Ken Adam is a fascinating man – please do check out this link and hear about working with Kubrick – from his lips to your ears! This is the grace of the Internet… Click! Click! Click! Click below! Search results- Web of Stories.

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THE DATE PART III – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

LAUREN BACALL – LOUISE DAHL-WOLFE – HARRY TRUMAN

JOAN CRAWFORD APPLIES MAKEUP – PHOTOGRAPHED BY EVE ARNOLD

THE DATE PART II – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE DATE – A SHORT STORY BY GEORGE KAPLAN

BARRY LYNDON – IN LA

2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY – IN LA

DR. STRANGELOVE IN LA – DESIGNED BY KEN ADAM (Sir Ken Adam)

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