Terry O'Neill Reflects on an Iconic Hollywood Photo
The Beverly Hills Hotel, that year's Best Actress winner and a pile of print newspapers
Remember the time the Oscars were hosted by Richard Pryor, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn and Warren Beatty? Of course you don’t.
Back in those days, the Academy liked to enlist multiple MCs and people still tended to read print newspapers. On the morning of Tuesday March 27, 1977, Best Actress winner Faye Dunaway (Network) posed for a famous photo, poolside at another LA institution, surrounded by that morning’s newspapers. From a recent New York magazine conversation with Terry O’Neill, the photographer who took the picture:
”Funny enough, I was photographing her on an assignment for People magazine at the time — they always did a piece on the girl they think is going to win.
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