Celebrity

Dreaming of Celebrity?

Just in time for the Holidays, here’s just the thing for that person on your list who dreams of celebrity. Thanks to these Pappillowazzi cases from the ICP store they can sleep like a celebrity. At just 35 bucks how can you deny their celebrity dreams?

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The Other Side of Fame

Does this look fun? Fame is a funny thing. A lot of notions about fame and celebrity are based on which side of the velvet rope you find yourself. There’s a great scene in Barry Levinson’s “PoliWood” where two actors shoot down any notion that Hollywood celebrities are motivated by the desire for photo ops.

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A Lesson from Levinson

I attended the New York premiere of Barry Levinson’s film PoliWood at the Tribeca Film Festival with my friends from The Creative Coalition. The film both examines lobbying efforts by Hollywood celebrities as well as how the television media has changed since it’s origins as “profit” has overtaken “public service”. While I was working on

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Actress Anne Hathaway photographed by Brian Smith for The Creative Coalition's 'Art &Soul' project

Cupcakes from Anne Hathaway

We’re in New York shooting portraits of celebrities for the book ‘Art & Soul‘ with The Creative Coalition and Sony. Assignments this good are really rare. Even though I’ve been l blessed with more than my share of unbelievable assignments in my career, shooting portraits of so many Oscar winners, Tony winners, Grammy winners and

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Art & Soul Begins at Haven House

I’ve just wrapped a three-day shoot at Haven House in Beverly Hills photographing portraits of celebrities with The Creative Coalition during Oscar Week thanks to the generous sponsorship of Sony and Hachette Filipacchi Media. Our crew included my wife Fazia who always makes certain everyone looked fabulous on our shoots, Kayla Lindquist, Director of Sony’s

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