Saint Nadine

Micah Isaiah Handrinos

SAG at six.

Micah Isaiah Handrinos

Ford model at eight.

Cyrus David Handrinos

age 15 months.

Cyrus with skateboard

at age 4.

Jeremi Britt Handrinos

Poet, actor, singer, songwriter. 

Judith McBean

Joseph Emmanuel

Gunn Espegard

From Norway, to London, to Hollywood, Ms. Espegard is a first call make-up artist for film and advertising.

Donald William Saban

Santa Barbara 1978

My longtime photography associate.

Horst P. Horst

One of the greatest fashion and portrait photographers in the history of the medium.  Known for his work in

Vogue, Horst's neoclassical,  subtly surrealistic compositions reflected the artistic ethos of his times, the

1930's and 1940's.

James J. Kriegsman

in front of his double exposure portrait of Cab Calloway.

The premiere show business portrait photographer in New York from the 1930's through the 1980's, shown

here at his vast studio at Broadway and 46th Street, where everyone from Governor Nelson Rockefeller to

Ray Charles to Benny Goodman  to the Coasters, came for to have their publicity photos taken.  Trained in

his native Austria, when he emigrated to New York in the late 1920s, he was one of the few photographers

willing to shoot stars of color -- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerarld, and hundreds more.

Allegra Woods

Dorothy Donegan

"Empress of the Ivories"

1922-1998

A classically trained Jazz piano virtuoso, Ms. Donegan was known for her flashy technique and flamboyant

performances.  In a 1981 review, John S. Wilson, longtime Jazz critic for the New York Times, stated that

"she can be the lustiest, most exciting, hard-swinging and virtuosic jazz pianist in the world...one of the most

brilliant pianists, male or female, that jazz has ever known." 

Annie Ross

Jazz singer and actress, best known as a member of the trio Lambert, Hendricks &  Ross.

Red Callandar

Legendary bassist and a veteran of thousands of Jazz, R&B, and Pop recordings.

Ruth Brown

"Miss Rhythm"

The First Queen of Rhythm & Blues

Anita O'Day

"The Jezebel of Jazz"

Benny Carter

1907-2003

Alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, bandleader.

Ruth Olay

The singer first performed with the Benny Carter Band using the pseudonym Rachel Davis in an attempt to

pass as African-American during a time of segregation.  The daughter of a Los Angeles rabbi, she later

performed frequently on late night television and appeared with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra.

Kathleen Flanagan

Paul Lekakis

the Greek-American actor, model, filmmaker and club music artist.

Maria Quinn

Florence, Italy

Ines Mejia Folger

1907-2007

Beatrice Wood

The legendary ceramicist, known as the "Mama of Dada" for her relationship with Marcel Duchamp and his

circle, pictured amid her collection of Indian folk art at Ojai Valley, CA in 1991.   She died in 1998 at the age

of 105.

Wedding at Malibu Beach.

Self Portrait

Palazzo Doria Pamphilj

Rome