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LA Cares AIDS campaign (c.1984) starring Zelda Rubinstein Zelda Rubinstein was a little person (the term she preferred) who began acting in her 40's. Her big break came in 1982 with her role as Tangina Barrons in the film Poltergeist.
In 1984, she was the the central figure in a series of advertisements, directed towards gay men specifically, promoting safer sex and AIDS awareness. Rubinstein did so at risk to her own career, especially so shortly after her rise to fame, and admitted later that she did "pay a price, career-wise." "I lost a friend to AIDS, one of the first public figures that died of AIDS," the actress said in an interview with The Advocate. "I knew it was not the kind of disease that would stay in anybody's backyard. It would climb the fences, get over the fences into all of our homes. It was not limited to one group of people." She attended the first AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Walk. (Source:Wikipedia)
“Everything ends”
SIX FEET UNDER (2001–2005) Lauren Ambrose as Claire Fisher in the final season promo
abandoned grain elevator, highway 195 through the palouse in wa. // dec. 2024
photography by tamotsu yatō, otoko (1972)
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Tenshi no harawata: Akai inga (Angel Guts: Red Porno), 1981, Toshiharu Ikeda
Modern Bride, 1992.
Model: Kathryn Edwards.
7:30 AM, May 8, 1953 - Atomic blast and mushroom cloud 75 miles away, seen from Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas Strip.
The atomic blast was real; the photo was planned promotional effort by the Las Vegas News Bureau.
Las Vegas News Bureau, the resort industry’s own PR team whose mission it was to get the name “Las Vegas” into the national media by any means possible, found the series of atomic tests in the 1950s to be a proven success. An earlier photo by Bureau photographer Don English showing an atomic cloud rising in the distance over downtown Las Vegas skyline had been his biggest success to date with his photo published in LIFE and newspapers around the world.
English planned these photos for the May 8th test blast hoping for a similar success. He was perched on a balcony at Hotel Last Frontier facing northwest, overlooking the courtyard and pool. It was early-morning on a day that wasn’t particularly hot, with the swimmers possibly also positioned for the photo.
The covered wagons in the distance are the hotel's Last Frontier Village theme park. The screen of Motor-Vu Drive-In theater is beyond the hotel. A Union Pacific train passed in the distance of the second photo.
Sheryl Lee | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
John Silver and Joe Leitel ph. Bob Mizer, c. 1950s
St Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter (Via Flickr)
The full Fall/Holiday 1995 'Sanctuary' catalog by Cher (1995)
Incredible mail-order catalog started by Cher in 1994; this is the 1995 edition. Unfortunately, it seems the venture ended after the 1995 issue. According to a 1998 article, this was due to mismanagement & order-fulfillment problems.
Luckily found a copy available online, then scanned & cleaned-up this wonderful relic of 90's Renaissance Revival & Whimsigothic fashion & design!
