Breaking Baz: Hollywood Photographer Dafydd Jones On The Glamour Of Oscar Parties In Black And White
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Dafydd Jones first went to Hollywood in the 1980s to take photographs for Vanity Fair. He would lurk, unfailingly polite and unobtrusive, and take pictures of the rich and famous.
The parties were truly glamorous then. Wall to wall megawatt stars. Jack Nicholson and Elizabeth Taylor (never ‘Liz!’) at Swifty Lazar’s last hurrah at Spago in 1993 is what I’m talking about.
The hoards of advertisers and folk who had zero affinity with movies except to rub up against film stars and Hollywood players came later.
It somehow feels strange to be raving on about swell parties in Hollywood at a time when so many people we’ve known for decades have had their lives upended by the fires that scorched Los Angeles County, leaving thousands homeless, and at least 29 people dead.
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