New York — Bert Stern, a commercial photographer best known for his images of Marilyn Monroe in what became known as "The Last Sitting," has died in New York City. He was 83.
Stern died Wednesday at his Manhattan home, said Shannah Laumeister, 43, a filmmaker who said the two were secretly married in 2009. She said the reason for keeping it secret was private.
Stern shot thousands of pictures of Monroe at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles in 1962 for Vogue magazine just weeks before her drug overdose death. They included nude and semi-nude images.
"He was an enormously innovative photographer, both as a commercial photographer and a photographer of celebrities and fashion models. And one of the great people in his field," said Bruce Barnes, director of the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., which this summer is presenting Stern's only documentary film, "Jazz on a Summer's Day," made in...
Stern died Wednesday at his Manhattan home, said Shannah Laumeister, 43, a filmmaker who said the two were secretly married in 2009. She said the reason for keeping it secret was private.
Stern shot thousands of pictures of Monroe at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles in 1962 for Vogue magazine just weeks before her drug overdose death. They included nude and semi-nude images.
"He was an enormously innovative photographer, both as a commercial photographer and a photographer of celebrities and fashion models. And one of the great people in his field," said Bruce Barnes, director of the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., which this summer is presenting Stern's only documentary film, "Jazz on a Summer's Day," made in...
- 6/27/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Another day, another piece of Nicholas Cage casting news! This guy is signed on to star in so many film projects that I'm starting to think that he's got a Cage clone out there helping him out. He's currently in talks to star in a faith based action thriller called Left Behind. The movie is based on a series of books written by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with the End Times. It features a Christian eschatological viewpoint of the end of the world.
Apparently, this will also be a reboot of a film series already made that starred Kirk Cameron. I've never seen the original films or read the books, but from the research I've done on it it sounds like it will make for an interesting film series. It's easy to see Cage take on a project like this.
The writer and producer of the original set of films,...
Apparently, this will also be a reboot of a film series already made that starred Kirk Cameron. I've never seen the original films or read the books, but from the research I've done on it it sounds like it will make for an interesting film series. It's easy to see Cage take on a project like this.
The writer and producer of the original set of films,...
- 10/20/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Cinephiles Bruce Barnes and Ben Ziola dressed to the nines at the TCM Festival launch party at L.A.'s Roosevelt Hotel. Photograph by John Lopez. They dress in vintage formalwear instead of storm trooper costumes. When they squeal, “Robert!,” it means Osborne, not Pattinson. And forget Iron Man 2—the movie they breathlessly anticipate this spring is a new restoration of Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent masterpiece, Metropolis. Classic film lovers are as devoted as fangirls and fanboys of other genres, but until recently, they had no real place to gather and stoke their avidity outside of local revival houses. Now Bogart and Garland fans have their own Comic-Con—the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Hollywood, which the cable channel just announced will become an annual event after selling 17,000 seats in its first weekend. “I’ve got goosebumps,” said Debra Schweiss, a retail style director who had flown in from Dallas for the festival.
- 4/27/2010
- Vanity Fair
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