LAWRENCE SCHILLER

In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller thoroughly recreates every aspect of the complex case of the death of JonBenét Ramsey. A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable family thrust under the spotlight of public suspicion and an affluent, tranquil city torn apart by a crime it couldn't handle, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town uncovers the mysteries that have bewildered the nation.

En 1970 Barbra Streisand publicó un artículo en la revista Life titulado Who Am I Anyway? (¿Quién soy yo en realidad?). Esa misma pregunta se la hicieron también Steve Schapiro y Lawrence Schiller, dos de los reporteros graficos mas destacados de la epoca que retrataron a la actriz durante sus primeros años en Hollywood mientras se esforzaban por asomarse al otro lado de la cortina y descubrir a la verdadera Barbra. Este libro, que hasta el momento solo habia estado disponible en edicion limitada y que rebosa de fotografias, anecdotas e imagenes tomadas por Schapiro y Schiller entre bastidores, es una obra imprescindible para cualquier fan de Streisand. Incluye las mejores peliculas de la primera decada de a actriz en Hollywood: Funny Girl (Una chica divertida), Vuelve a mi lado, Tal como eramos, La gatita y el buho, Casada en Nueva York, Funny Lady y Ha nacido una estrella. Sus amores, directores, confidentes y compañeros de reparto tambien quedan retratados: Elliott Gould, William Wyler, Sydney Pollack, Vincente Minnelli, Cis Corman, Omar Sharif, Kris Kristofferson y, por supuesto, Robert Redford. El conjunto cristaliza una imagen clara: mas que una cantante capaz de actuar, Streisand es una actriz capaz de cantar, escribir, dirigir, bailar y, en general, de hacer todo aquello que se propone.Edicion en ingles

“Tú ya eres famosa, el que se va a hacer famoso ahora soy yo”, le dijo el fotógrafo Lawrence Schiller mientras hablaban de las fotografías que estaba a punto de hacerle. “No seas tan arrogante”, le r

An intimate memoir recalling a young photographers relationship with Marilyn Monroe just months before her death, with extraordinary photographs, some of which have never been published."With the precision of a surgeon, Schiller slices through the façade of Marilyn Monroe in his unflinching memoir. Revealing and readable, its a book I couldnt put down." Tina BrownWhen he pulled his station wagon into the 20th Century-Fox studios parking lot in Los Angeles in 1960, twenty-three-year-old Lawrence Schiller kept telling himself that this was just another assignment, just another pretty girl. But the assignment and the girl were anything but ordinary. Schiller was a photographer for Look magazine and his subject was Marilyn Monroe, Americas sweetheart and sex symbol. In this intimate memoir, Schiller recalls the friendship that developed between him and Monroe while he photographed her in Hollywood in 1960 and 1962 on the sets of Lets Make Love and the unfinished feature Somethings Got to Give, the last film she worked on. Schiller recalls Marilyn as tough and determined, enormously insecure as an actress but totally self-assured as a photographers model. Monroe knew how to use her looks and sexuality to generate publicity, and in 1962 she allowed Schiller to publish the first nude photographs of her in over ten years, which she then used as a weapon against a studio that wanted to have her firedand ultimately succeeded. The Marilyn Schiller knew and writes about was adept at hiding deep psychological scars, but she was also warm and open, candid and disarming, a movie star who wished to be taken more seriously than she was. Accompanying the text are eighteen of the authors own photographs, some never previously published. Many writers have tried to capture her essence on the page, but as someone who was in the room, a young man Marilyn could connect with and trust, Schiller gives us a unique look at the real woman offscreen."In this short, splendid memoir, Lawrence Schiller offers us another cut on the scintillating diamond that is Marilyn Monroe. In clear honest straightforward prose, Schiller allows us to dwell in the heart of another time. He captures Marilyn, both in photographs and words, and in so doing he gives us intimate access into one of the great stories of the 20th century: the complicated cocktail of joy and sadness that goes along with both beauty and fame." Colum McCann