Walter Cronkite

Michael Jackson and Caroline Kennedy

When I first met Michael Jackson at a New Jersey amusement park this unassuming sweet kid was so humble that I thought he was the boyfriend of the gal who played Alice in The Wiz on Broadway. When he told me sweetly and without rancour "I am not her boyfriend" i later learned he was playing the role of The Tin Man and he was part of The Jackson Five. A few months later, he approached me and asked me to photograph him with Caroline Kennedy and her Mom, Jackie O. I told him it wasn't a good picture and I would ask them to pose with him. He declined shyly and assured me that the photo I took was fine. Years later Jackie had approached him when she was working for Doubleday for a book she wanted to edit sbout his life story. At this time at the Rainbow Room she may not have been aware of his existence.

Always Remembered

A pensive Michael Jackson at the press conference announcing his entrance into Ripley's Believe It Or Not as the highest grossing singer in recorded history circa 1988.

John Kennedy, Jr.

He was a very charismatic young bachelor at a dinner honoring Desmond Tutu at the Windows on the World on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center before he launched George Magazine. A good natured guy, blessed with looks, money, charm, humor, and built in fame who never got a chance to achieve most of his dreams.

Always remembered

It was about 6 a,m, in Calcutta, India when I waited behind an undyed muslim curtain. Peeping my camera through its side panel, i shot this photo of Mother Theresa talking to and praying with her volunteer nuns over a sea of their heads. The young and eager nuns were about to start their long day caring for orphans and the dieing, after having pounded the bed sheets clean as they sang hymns an hour before her arrival.

There were a couple of novice volunteers fresh from Galway, Ireland who were with me, waiting to meet with her.

Christopher Reeve at Softball Game

I photographed Chris Reeve running with the sun creating a halo around his head in the 1970's at a softball game in Easthampton

kurt vonnegut

I photographed Kurt Vonnegut at a PEN Conference circa 1970's

This photo was published in New York Magazine. When I told him about an outrageously contrived harrassment i was experiencing, he asked me if i thought about having my harrassers assassinated. i laughed in amazement at his audacious remark. "After all," he said "they deserve it."

Always Remembered

Rudolph Nureyev was happy to receive congratulatory praise from the great Leonard Bernstein at a dinner party at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall