H E A T

Heat, also known as Andy Warhol's Heat, is an American film released in 1972. Directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol, it starred Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles and Andrea Feldman. Joe Dallesandro plays Joey Davis, an unemployed former child star who supports himself as a hustler in Los Angeles. Joey uses sex to get his landlady to reduce his rent, then seduces Sally Todd (Sylvia Miles), a former Hollywood starlet. Sally tries to help Joey revive his career but her status as a mediocre ex-actress proves to be quite useless. Sally's psychotic daughter Jessica (Andrea Feldman) further complicates the relationship between Sally and the cynical, emotionally-numb Joey.

The film was conceived by Warhol as a parody of some sort of Sunset Boulevard.

Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett has lived a life surrounded by extraordinary people, and witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wall came down; and in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the age of 17 he was friends with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and since then he has been up close and personal with some of the most famous women in the world: Julia Roberts, Madonna, Sharon Stone and Donatella Versace.

His latest memoir swoops from the eccentricities of the British upper classes to the madness of Hollywood, from the Russian steppes to an Easter egg hunt in Elizabeth Taylor's garden.

Ashton Kutcher

Ben Affleck

B R A N D O

Ross & Warhol

Billboard named Diana Ross “Entertainer of the Century” in 1976.

Edie & Andy

Mick & Keith

Sophia

Rudolph Nureyev

Nureyev's influence on the world of ballet changed especially the perception of male dancers; in his own productions of the classics the male roles got much more choreography than in earlier productions. The second very important influence was his crossing the borders between classical ballet and modern dance by dancing both, although having been trained as a classical dancer. Today it is absolutely normal for dancers to get training in both styles but Nureyev was the one who started this and it was a sensation and even much criticized in his days.

When AIDS appeared in France in about 1982, Nureyev, like many homosexual men, took little notice. He presumably contracted HIV at some point in the early 1980s. For several years he simply denied that anything was wrong with his health: when, in about 1990, he became undeniably ill, he pretended he had several other ailments. He tried several experimental treatments but they did not stop the inevitable decline of his body. Towards the end of his life, as dancing became more and more agonizing for him, he resigned himself to small non-dancing roles, and dabbled with the idea of becoming a conductor. At the urging of Fonteyn, he had a short but successful conducting career, which was unfortunately cut short due to his declining health.

Eventually, however, he had to face the fact that he was dying. He won back the admiration of many of his detractors by his courage during this period. The loss of his looks pained him, but he continued to struggle through public appearances. At his last appearance, at a 1992 production of La Bayadère at the Palais Garnier, Nureyev received an emotional standing ovation from the audience. The French Culture Minister, Jack Lang, presented him with France's highest cultural award, the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. He died in Paris, France, a few months later, aged 54. His grave, at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois near Paris, is featured in this photograph with an oriental Turkic-style carpet.

Troy Donahue

M A D O N N A

Madonna has cited her Catholic background is a major influence in her life and career. She has also noted on various occasions that her mother's premature death left a lasting emotional impression throughout her adolescence and adulthood.

The name "Madonna" is Catholic and references The Virgin Mary, who in the Roman Catholic Church is often referred to as "The Madonna". She has described the name as being "very Italian", despite the fact that she was named after her French Canadian mother. The name "Madonna" is a combination of the two Italian words "ma", a variation on the Italian "mia" (the contextual form for the adjective "my"), and "donna", which literally translates to "my lady".

1970 Raquel Welch

Her professional name, Raquel Welch, served as protection against discrimination in Hollywood. Many other stars did the same in times prior to the 1990s. The names included people like Rita Hayworth and Lynda Carter. With the recent attention and acceptance of the American public on people of Latin descent, she has been coming out and reminding people of her Hispanic heritage.

Raquel 1967

Paul Walker

Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor of English heritage. His career spanned from the 1920s until the year of his death, and saw him make one hundred films. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited for the many Westerns he made.

Audrey Hepburn

She won the 1953 Academy Award for Best Actress for Roman Holiday. She was nominated for Best Actress four more times; for Sabrina, The Nun's Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Wait Until Dark. She was not nominated for her performance as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, one of her most acclaimed performances.

For her 1967 nomination, the Academy chose her performance in Wait Until Dark over her critically acclaimed performance in Two for the Road. She lost to Katharine Hepburn (in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner).

Audrey Hepburn was one of the few people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.

Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, Mimi Farina

Retrospective appraisals of Mitchell's work have labeled her the "female Bob Dylan," but Mitchell has sometimes objected to the way her legacy is described by critics, singling out in particular the "female Bob Dylan" moniker: "Being female creates a new category in some people's minds. No one would say that Dylan is the 'male Joni Mitchell.'"

Mitchell is also an accomplished visual artist. She has, through photography or painting, created the artwork for each of her albums and has described herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance." A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell had stopped recording over the last several years, focusing mainly on her visual art, but in October 2006 she announced that she is working on material for a new album.

Charlton

H E S T O N

He enrolled in the school's drama program, where he performed with such outstanding results that he earned a drama scholarship to Northwestern University from the Winnetka Community Theatre in which he was also active. While still in high school, he played in the silent 16 mm amateur film adaptation of Peer Gynt made by David Bradley. Several years later the same team produced the first sound version of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, in which Heston played Marc Antony.

Linda Ronstadt

According to Amazon.com, Linda Ronstadt became the American female rock superstar of the Me Decade as the 1970s were known. (People during the Me Decade concentrated on their own leisure and happiness). Dirty Linen magazine describes her as the "first true woman rock 'n' roll superstar.....(selling) out stadiums with a string of mega-successful albums."As author Gerri Hirshey explains in her book We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock, Linda Ronstadt was the first "arena-class rock diva," with "hugely anticipated tours."

Joni Mitchell

Hejira (1976) continued Mitchell's trend toward jazz. The instrumentation is very intimate, consisting only of Mitchell's acoustic guitar, the electric guitar of Larry Carlton, and Jaco Pastorius's fretless bass guitar (on one track, Mitchell and Carlton reverse roles.) The songs themselves, however, featured densely metaphorical lyrics and swooping vocal melodies providing contrast and counterpoint to the jazz rhythms of the arrangements. This album also highlighted as never before the unusual "open" guitar tunings that Mitchell used. While Hejira "did not sell as briskly as [Mitchell's earlier] more accessible albums," its stature in her catalogue has grown over the years. Joni herself believes the album to be unique; in 2006, she said, "I suppose a lot of people could have written a lot of my other songs, but I feel the songs on Hejira could only have come from me."

Laura Nyro

Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro) (October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was born in the The Bronx, New York, of Italian-American and Jewish-American parents.

She was an American composer, lyricist, singer, and pianist, one of the most influential musicians to emerge in the 1960s. Her style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, and rock. She blazed the trail for – and directly influenced – future composers including Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Donald Fagen, Todd Rundgren, and Rickie Lee Jones, among many others.
Bob Dylan reportedly startled a young Laura Nyro when he approached her at a party and declared "I love your chords!"
Nyro died of ovarian cancer in Danbury, Connecticut on April 8 1997 at the age of 49. The same disease had claimed the life of her mother, Gilda Mirsky Nigro, also 49 at the time of her death.

Her life partner was Maria Desiderio (d. 1999). She is survived by her son Gil Bianchini, her father Louis Nigro, and her brother Jan Nigro.

Baez & Dylan

Janis Ian

Ian currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with attorney Patricia Snyder, whom she married in Toronto, Canada on August 27, 2003.

Born Janis Eddy Fink in New York City, she was primarily raised in New Jersey and briefly attended the New York City High School of Music & Art. At 13 years old, she legally changed her name to Janis Ian, her new last name being her brother's middle name.

Prince

Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota at Mount Sinai Hospital on Saturday June 7, 1958 at 6:17pm to John L. Nelson and Mattie Shaw. John was a pianist and songwriter. Mattie was a singer. He is named Prince Rogers Nelson after the Prince Rogers Trio, his father's jazz band. As a boy, he was called Skipper. There are a number of myths regarding Prince’s ethnicity, some spread by Prince himself. The most pervasive is that he is the child of a black father and white mother, a myth later bolstered by the film Purple Rain, starring Prince himself. In fact, according to an April 28, 1983 Rolling Stone article, Prince's father is of African-American and Italian ancestry, and his mother is of African-American, Native American, and Italian lineage as noted in a 1985 Rolling Stone interview.

Aretha

She is renowned for her soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel, and even opera. She is generally regarded as one of the top vocalists ever, due to her ability to inject whatever she may be singing about with passion, soul and sheer conviction.

Lucille Ball "I Love Lucy"

The series ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on CBS (181 episodes, including the "lost" Christmas episode and pilot). At the time, most television shows were broadcast live from New York City, and a low-quality 35mm or 16mm kinescope print was made of the show to broadcast it in other time zones. But Ball was pregnant at the time, and she and Arnaz therefore insisted on filming the show in Hollywood. The duo, along with co-creator Jess Oppenheimer, then decided to shoot the show on 35 mm film in front of a studio audience, with three cameras, a technique now standard among present-day sitcoms. The result was a much sharper image than other shows of the time, and the audience reactions were far more authentic than the "canned laughter" used on most filmed sitcoms of the time. The technique was not completely new--another CBS comedy series, Amos 'n' Andy, which debuted four months earlier, was already being filmed at Hal Roach Studios with three 35mm cameras to save time and money. But I Love Lucy was the first show to use this technique with a studio audience.

Diana Ross

In late-1971, it was announced that Diana Ross was going to play jazz icon Billie Holiday in a Motown-produced biographical film loosely based on Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues. From the moment the film was announced, critics ridiculed Ross throughout the media: Ross and Holiday were miles apart from each other in style and appearance. Ross soldiered on, immersing herself into Holiday's music and life story. Diana actually knew little about Holiday, and wasn't a big fan of jazz in general. She did not attempt to imitate Holiday's voice, instead, Ross focused on adapting Holiday's vocal phrasing.

Paul Newman "Somebody Up There Likes Me"

Tina & Janis

Janis was a big fan of Tina Turner and they performed together at a Rolling Stones concert at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY November 27, 1969.


CAVETT: Janis, who do you go to see when you want to see a good concert?
JANIS: Tina Turner.
CAVETT: Beg your pardon.
JANIS: Tina Turner. Fantastic singer, fantastic dancer, fantastic show.
CAVETT: Would you be surprised if I didn't know who Tina Turner was?
JANIS: No, not many people know who she is, but that's too bad. She
tours with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Ike is the bandleader and
her...husband and Tina's the show.
CAVETT: Well, come by some night, Tina.



-- Dick Cavett Show, 1969

Ann-Margret & Tina Turner

Tina Turner

Tina Turner is noted for her energetic stage presence, and her physical trademarks, such as her long, well-proportioned legs, hair and her instantly identifiable voice.

Hendrix & Joplin "Woodstock"

Jimi Hendix, The Who and Joe Cocker give riveting performances. ... Credence Clearwater Revival and Janis Joplin performed but were not shown in the film. ...

Arnold

In a candid interview with Fortune Magazine in 2004, Schwarzenegger told how he suffered what "would now be called child abuse" at the hands of his father. "My hair was pulled. I was hit with belts. So was the kid next door. It was just the way it was. Many of the children I've seen were broken by their parents, which was the German-Austrian mentality. They didn't want to create an individual. It was all about conforming. I was one who did not conform and whose will could not be broken. Therefore I became a rebel. Every time I got hit, and every time someone said, 'you can't do this,' I said, 'this is not going to be for much longer, because I'm going to move out of here. I want to be rich. I want to be somebody'."

Warhol & Capote

In 1952, the Hugo Gallery in New York presented a show of Warhol’s illustrations for Truman Capote’s writings.
When Other Voices, Other Rooms was published in 1948, it stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks, selling more than 26,000 copies. The promotion and controversy surrounding this novel catapulted Capote to fame. A 1947 Harold Halma photograph, used to promote the book, showed a reclining Capote gazing into the camera. Gerald Clarke, in Capote: A Biography (1988), wrote, "The famous photograph: Harold Halma's picture on the dustjacket of Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) caused as much comment and controversy as the prose inside. Truman claimed that the camera had caught him off guard, but in fact he had posed himself and was responsible for both the picture and the publicity." Much of the early attention to Capote centered around different interpretations of this photograph, which was viewed as a suggestive pose by some. According to Clarke, the photo created an "uproar" and gave Capote "not only the literary, but also the public personality he had always wanted." The photo made a huge impression on the 20-year-old Andy Warhol, who often talked about the picture and wrote fan letters to Capote. When Warhol moved to New York in 1949, he made numerous attempts to meet Capote, and Warhol's fascination with the author led to his first New York one-man show, Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote at the Hugo Gallery (June 16 - July 3, 1952.).

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix. The full list of Hendrix's Woodstock performance repertoire follows:
Fire
Message to Love
Hear My Train A Comin'
Spanish Castle Magic
Red House
Mastermind
Lover Man
Foxy Lady
Jam Back At The House
Izabella
Gypsy Woman
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)/Stepping Stone
Star Spangled Banner
Purple Haze
Woodstock Improvisation/Villanova Junction
Hey Joe

WOODSTOCK

Saturday, August 16
The day opened at 12:15 pm, and featured some of the event's biggest psychedelic and guitar rock headliners.

Janis Joplin (Performed 2 encores; Piece of My Heart and Ball and Chain).
Raise Your Hand
As Good As You've Been To This World
To Love Somebody
Summertime
Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)
Kosmic Blues
Can't Turn you Loose
Work Me Lord
Piece of My Heart
Ball and Chain

Cher 1974

After her split with Sonny in 1974, Cher signed with David Geffen's new operation at Warner Bros Records. The first release, Stars, was an eclectic mix of seventies' folksy-rock tunes, written by people like Neil Young, Jimmy Cliff, Jackson Browne, Eric Clapton and Janis Ian.

Oliver Reed & Glenda Jackson

Screenwriter and producer Larry Kramer and director Ken Russell adapted the novel in the Academy Award-winning 1969 film Women in Love (for which Glenda Jackson won for Best Actress). It was one of the first theatrical movies to show male genitals, when Gerald Crich (Oliver Reed) and Rupert Birkin (Alan Bates) wrestle in the nude in front of a roaring fireplace.

Alan Bates

Bates starred in such international hit films as Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd, Zorba the Greek, The Go-Between, An Unmarried Woman and Women in Love (in which, along with Oliver Reed he became the first actor to do frontal nudity in a major studio motion picture) but he consciously decided to concentrate on a few well-defined roles, rather than to take everything that came his way.

Glenda Jackson

Fame came with Jackson's starring role in the controversial Women in Love (1970) for which she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress.

STREISAND LIVE 2007

Streisand's 2006 U.S. tour was ranked the second-highest grossing tour in North America last year, generating $92.5 million in gross sales, with the average ticket price at $298. The Rolling Stones tour ranked first.