Debbie Harry and Chris Stein photographed by Roberta Bayley in 1976.
Subway graffiti in 1970s/1980s New York.
What is one of the scariest movie scenes you know? For me, it has to be the subway peddler scene from THE WIZ (1978), one of my all-time favorite films. It’s a slow, wordless nightmare, with no payoff: the last time we see the clown puppets, they’re still nonchalantly roaming the subway, looking for prey.
When Dorothy and her friends flee up the stairs, the patterns on the floor look like pools of blood.
Ghost tube: haunted and abandoned London underground stations.
A dash for freedom. After abruptly leaving Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe spent a low-key year in New York, soaking up its cultural life and honing her craft at the Actors Studio—while keeping furious and confused studio bosses back in LA at bay. Photos by Ed Feingersh, 1955.
Terrifying, isn’t it? I watched the show as a kid, no wonder I had nightmares.
I often have nightmares actually: two days ago I fell out of bed while trying to ward off a giant blue bee in my dreams. I hit my head on the nightstand, which woke me up. My own worst enemy. Luckily I didn’t smash my teeth or break a finger, still, it’s always kind of unsettling: just the fact that you do these wild things in your sleep without any control over them.
Marilyn Monroe shooting the famous skirt scene for THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955).
What is one of the scariest movie scenes you know? For me, it has to be the subway peddler scene from THE WIZ (1978), one of my all-time favorite films. It’s a slow, wordless nightmare, with no payoff: the last time we see the clown puppets, they’re still nonchalantly roaming the subway, looking for prey.
When Dorothy and her friends flee up the stairs, the patterns on the floor look like pools of blood.
Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell in THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955).
Publicity photos for it were shot on the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 52nd street, NYC; the scene itself was recorded in a studio in Hollywood.
