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Happy Birthday, Marilyn Monroe. An ode, from my cover story at Playboy Magazine, published December 2012. “I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other...

“The Sturdy Citizen” – TY Wong performing Shaolin animal forms within his Kin Mon Physical Culture Studio in San Francisco’s Chinatown. TY was a local tong enforcer who had taught kung fu in San Francisco’s Chinatown for three decades. He likely spoke...

***MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9*** LOSING GROUND, Kathleen Collins The Film Society of Lincoln Center Finally receiving a long overdue theatrical run, Losing Ground is one of the first feature films written and directed by a black woman, and a groundbreaking...

It all began with dancing goats. Or so the legend says. An Ethiopian goat herder noticed his goats became frisky after eating the coffee cherries from a local shrub. He wanted to dance too, so he downed some of the berries, caught the buzz and partied...

Eve Arnold on the set of The Misfits with Marilyn Monroe. ©  Photographer unknown–perhaps Robert Penn While we are on the subject of still photographers working on images of actors and scenes while a film is being shot , (See our post below about Bob...