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...Staff writer Alexander B. Cohn can be reached at abcohn@fas.harvard.edu...
...shot even the sitting figures from below, with the tops of rooms pressing down on them; he loved ceiling shots more than Japanese tourists in the Sistine Chapel. This perspective not only enhanced a doomsday mood, it kept the costs down on low-budget productions. According to Joe Cohn, his boss at MGM, Alton "saved a lot of time by lighting only from the floor...
DIED. Helen Cohn, 92, who helped her husband and business partner Nudie create garish, rhinestone-studded garb favored by glittery entertainers from the 1940s to the '80s; in Valencia, Calif. Among their most famous creations was a $10,000 gold lamé suit for Elvis Presley (the profit for Nudie's Rodeo Tailors: $9,950). The ensembles were most popular among country stars like Roy Rogers and Buck Owens, who wore Nudies to their graves. The Cohns' motto: "It's better to be looked over than overlooked...
...curators of the exhibit began planning the show roughly a year ago, prompted by the availability of space and the retirement of people familiar with Harvard’s Degas holdings, including Cohn and Jean Sutherland Boggs...
...Both Cohn and Boggs, who studied under Sachs in 1944 and went on to become the first female director of the National Gallery of Canada, contributed articles to the exhibit’s catalog...