Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Shirley gets pouty: Vintage Image of the Day

This reminds me of another set of photos I can't recall the photographer's name, a book. Actors were asked what THEY would have liked to be, actors often asked to play parts they probably often would rather not (like John Kerry defending his service record rather than discussing what's really important, or his once former opponent Governor Weld asked by President Clinton to be Ambassador to Mexico only to be "stood up" by the US Senate, roles like that sometimes nobody would want, but imposed by "directors"). Two composed close-ups I recall were one of Paul Newman, who wanted to be like Errol Flynn, so they dressed him like Robin Hood for the close-up, and Shirley MacLaine, who wanted to be the girl with a bee on her nose, her close-up quite cross-eyed forever focused on one spot, instead of having to look all over the place but in the camera I imagine.

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