
Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross and the side of Norman Fell‘s head in The Graduate. Mike Nichols. 1967.

Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross and the side of Norman Fell‘s head in The Graduate. Mike Nichols. 1967.

Dirty Diana. Michael Jackson. 1987.
That other dude on the rear cover is Steve Stevens, Billy Idol‘s long time guitarist. He seems to have fit MJ’s idea of rock and roll with all of those buckles and zippers.

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Poster adverting an appearance by Claude at the Tivoli Theater, Cape Town, South Africa. Circa 1905. (And below a detail of an image similar to the one on the poster. Claude used several variations on this design to promote his stage work.)

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