Archive of posts filed under the celebrity category.
DCS: pamela jean bryant
Discovered as a student at Indiana University, Pamela Jean Bryant was selected as “Miss April,” the centerfold for that month’s issue of Playboy in 1978. Like many before and after her, she was able to use her modeling experience (and willingness to appear nude) to embark on a career in acting. Pamela Jean landed small …
inktober52: sardines
DCS: robert chesebrough
Robert Chesebrough began his career as a chemist refining and clarifying sperm whale oil. With the development of coal oil and when petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, Robert’s job suddenly became obsolete. Robert packed his bags for Titusville to see if he could use the new material for something else. He spoke with some …
inktober52: home
DCS: arthur anderson
Arthur Anderson began his career as a child. He portrayed “Buddy” on the NBC radio serial Tony and Gus. In 1936, he began his long association with the children’s radio show Let’s Pretend. As a teenager, Arthur met and began to work with fledgling impresario Orson Welles. He appeared with Welles’ Mercury Theater and took …
inktober52: cancer
DCS: james bidgood
June is Pride Month. James Bidgood was an aspiring filmmaker and an early performance artist. Under the guise of “Les Folies des Hommes,” James produced films and photographic series of a homoerotic nature. From 1963 until 1970, James filmed scenes in his Manhattan apartment for what would become Pink Narcissus. James wrote the script and …
inktober52: solstice
DCS: norah vincent
June is Pride Month. A respected columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a regular contributor to The Advocate, The Village Voice and Salon, Norah Vincent created her most ambitious work in 2006. Norah chronicled her eighteen-month “experiment” of living as a man in her book Self-Made Man. Using the name “Ned,” Norah joined an …