Showing posts with label what ever happen to. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what ever happen to. Show all posts
10/2/18
5/20/10
DINNER WITH MY PAST
the other night i had dinner with KERSEN WITKIN. kersen is the son of joel-peter witkin. i worked with joel throughout the 80s as his stylist, prop master, art director, location & model scout. i helped joel create approx 12 of his most famous/infamous images.
I hadn't seen kersen since he was 10 years old, so we had a reunion of sorts here in NYC. kersen is now a strapping lad of 31 years of age. wow how time flies. we meet @ this great little restaurant just off houston called 12 CHAIRS. it was very good, in that quiet, dark, low-key NYC way. we chatted about the good ol days of the past, and the bad ol days of the present. kersen mentioned that he couldn't remember a lot from back in the day. he said he had a vague recollection of doing karate moves for richard gere.
i asked if he remembered me and he replied, " oh yah! you're exactly the same. you look the same and i remember your distinctive laugh. the boy who's now a man knows how to make this ol man feel good!
i also exhibit kersen's artwork @ antebellum from time to time.
(kersen with his father joel-peter witkin, circa 1988, photo- herb ritts)
(kersen today)
kersen & i @ my opening night
I hadn't seen kersen since he was 10 years old, so we had a reunion of sorts here in NYC. kersen is now a strapping lad of 31 years of age. wow how time flies. we meet @ this great little restaurant just off houston called 12 CHAIRS. it was very good, in that quiet, dark, low-key NYC way. we chatted about the good ol days of the past, and the bad ol days of the present. kersen mentioned that he couldn't remember a lot from back in the day. he said he had a vague recollection of doing karate moves for richard gere.
i asked if he remembered me and he replied, " oh yah! you're exactly the same. you look the same and i remember your distinctive laugh. the boy who's now a man knows how to make this ol man feel good!
i also exhibit kersen's artwork @ antebellum from time to time.
(kersen with his father joel-peter witkin, circa 1988, photo- herb ritts)
(kersen today)
kersen & i @ my opening night
12/14/09
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO?
CONRAD VEIDT
antebellum artist RENFIELD and i were chatting the other day and he brought up silent screen actor- conrad veidt. i became inspired so here is a little tribute/posting about the life of conrad veidt.
Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 - 3 April 1943)
He was born Hans Walter Conrad Weidt in a working-class district of Berlin, Germany. (Some biographies wrongly state that he was born in Potsdam, probably on the basis of an early claim on his part.) From 1916 until his death, he appeared in well over 100 movies.
He appeared in two of the most well-known films of the silent era: as a murderous somnambulist in director Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) with Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover and as a disfigured circus performer in The Man Who Laughs (1928). According to the Los Angeles Times, "Conrad Veidt starred in this semi-silent film based on Victor Hugo's novel in which the son of a lord is punished for his father's disrespect to the king by having his face carved into a permanent grin."
Veidt also appeared in Magnus Hirschfeld's pioneering gay rights film Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others 1919), in which he played what is probably the first gay character written especially for the cinema, and in Das Land ohne Frauen (1929), Germany's first talking picture.
Veidt fervently opposed the Nazi regime, motivating him to emigrate from Germany in 1933 a week after marrying Illona Prager, a Jewish woman. He settled in the United Kingdom and became a British citizen in 1938.
He continued making films in Britain, notably three with director Michael Powell: The Spy in Black (1939), Contraband (1940) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940).
In the 1940s he moved to Hollywood, California, and starred in a few films, such as Nazi Agent (1942), in which he had a dual role as a Nazi and as the Nazi's twin brother, but his best remembered role was as Major Heinrich Strasser in Casablanca (1942).
He died suddenly of a heart attack a year later while playing golf in Los Angeles. In 1998, his ashes were were interred at the Golders Green Crematorium in London.
It's been reported that Veidt identified himself as Jewish on Nazi questionnaires as an act of protest.
12/6/09
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO?
JAMES & AMANDA-
were a gay male & fag-hag female singing duo. they were fixtures in weho during the new wave 1980s. i used to see them @ every club and bar on a nightly basis. of course i also went out on a nightly basis so the chance of running into them was high.
i fondly remember greeting james on many occasions to which he would respond with his now legendary stark reply- "HI, HOW ARE YOU?"
i even saw them perform their classic remake of "i need a man," @ the spike. a leather bar on santa monica blvd that's long gone. now a trendy bridge & tunnel bar.
i even saw james & amanda perform @ daddy warbucks in palm spring in the late 80s. glen meadmore opened for J&A.
between the both of them, glen meadmore's crab dance, and jame's flat singing style, they succeeded to clear the room.
were a gay male & fag-hag female singing duo. they were fixtures in weho during the new wave 1980s. i used to see them @ every club and bar on a nightly basis. of course i also went out on a nightly basis so the chance of running into them was high.
i fondly remember greeting james on many occasions to which he would respond with his now legendary stark reply- "HI, HOW ARE YOU?"
i even saw them perform their classic remake of "i need a man," @ the spike. a leather bar on santa monica blvd that's long gone. now a trendy bridge & tunnel bar.
i even saw james & amanda perform @ daddy warbucks in palm spring in the late 80s. glen meadmore opened for J&A.
between the both of them, glen meadmore's crab dance, and jame's flat singing style, they succeeded to clear the room.
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