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Saturday, May 24, 2014
“There’s a lot of
stellar juice in The Star Shiner” -- Beneath the Paint – Warts and All
– by Liz Smith --New York Social Diary, Boston
Herald, Chicago Tribune, Huntington Post – April 17, 2014
Make-up man Evan Richardson, who flourished in the
good-old, bad-old days of the 1970/'80s has written a memoir, The
Star Shiner, about his fascinating career life, as well as his personal story.
Evan starts his life of celebrity-dom with a bang,
getting to know the likes of Tallulah Bankhead and Lucille
Ball. He moves on, working with Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. His
life and career zoom into high gear during the licentious, cocaine-laced disco
era of the '70s and '80s.
I’ve rarely read as good a wrap-up of the Studio 54 days —
its rise and fall — as Evan Richardson chronicles. It’s so incisive I tore out
those pages and sent them to a friend who is writing a history of those times. Evan does a bang-up job on the mise en
scene of that era and the people. On that level, his is a fascinating
historical document.
His entire chapter devoted to Elizabeth Taylor is the celebrity piece
de resistance of the book. Richardson wasn’t terribly
interested in Taylor
but he does credit her for her work with AIDS.
“Evan Richardson really captures the feel of
the era!” -- Liz Smith
Friday, December 27, 2013
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