• • According to a Hollywood portraitist who was one of the panelists, Mae West knew the exact light in which she wanted to be photographed.
• • Michael Childers remembered meeting Greta Garbo and Mae West at a party and asking Miss West if he could shoot her while she was filming "Myra Breckinridge."
• • Mae West agreed, said the lensman, as long as it wasn't on the set near Raquel Welch. When Childers entered her trailer, he noticed that Mae had pink spotlights lined up exactly where she wanted them.
• • "Now you can photograph me," the well-prepared actress announced.
• • These photographs are on display at the M Modern Gallery [Palm Springs, California] in the "Blow Up" show through 21 January 2007. [Information was based on current reportage by VANESSA FRANKO of The Press-Enterprise.]
• • An enormous influence on Michael Childers's career was his long-term lover John Schlesinger, an Oscar-winning director. For nearly 40 years, they were a gay couple in Hollywood from 1966 until the 77-year-old's death [in July 2003]. Naturally, they were invited everywhere together and this gave the newcomer easy access to Hollywood's best and brightest. He estimated he shot 60,000 Tinseltown photographs of cinema's most indelible icons - - including the memorable Mae West.
• • After Mae West visited the set of John Schlesinger's ill-fated The Day of the Locust, Childers screened the director's groundbreaking 1971 gay film, Sunday Bloody Sunday, for the Brooklyn bombshell. "She was in rapt attention," he observed.
• • Mae West's reaction: "Oh, my goodness, this is one of the most important breakthroughs for the gay boys I've ever seen!"
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West
• • Photo by Michael Childers: Mae West • • on the set of "Myra Breckinridge," Twentieth Century Fox Studios, Hollywood • • 1969 • •
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