Aretha Franklin
"Don't call me 'Aretha,' " Johnny Rozsa remembers the Queen of Soul snapping at him on the set of The Merv Griffin Show, one of his first big gigs in the U.S. "Call me Miss Franklin," she said.
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The Jackson 5
Image Credit: Photo Credit: The Jackson Five, Photograph by Johnny Rozsa Rozsa recalled the time when he and his friend Marsha Hunt went to interview Michael Jackson and explained how "she thought he was an idiot savant because he was so mesmerizing on stage, while every time we spoke to him during the shoot, one of his brothers would have to answer for him."
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Kiefer Sutherland
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Kiefer Sutherland, Photograph by Johnny Rozsa A young Sutherland looks pleased after hitting it big at the box office in Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys (1987).
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Mariah Carey
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Mariah Carey, Photograph by Johnny Rozsa Although Rozsa is emphatic about Carey's mega-talent, he mentioned that she gave him the full diva treatment when they met for their first shoot. "She made me wait for two days," recalled Rozsa. "And then she gave me five minutes."
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Nicolas Cage
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Nicolas Cage, Photograph by Johnny Rozsa What's the trick to capturing that star quality in his subjects? "It’s eye-to-eye," said Rozsa. "It’s all in the eye. It’s all that connection."
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Susan Sarandon
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Susan Sarandon, Photograph by Johnny Rozsa Sarandon, whom Rozsa has photographed several times over the years, wrote the foreword for Untouched, stating, "I've never really liked to do this part of the job, but Johnny made it pretty painless."
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Whitney Houston
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Whitney Houston, Photograph by Johnny Rozsa Rozsa shot Houston on the set of her music video for "How Will I Know." When the young singer had a painful wardrobe malfunction, she called on her photographer to help. "It was so intimate. I’m not really a nurse," he explained of the situation.
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Daryl Hannah
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Daryl Hannah, Photograph by Johnny Rozsa Rozsa calls Hannah "a great beauty and talent" whose level of fame he couldn't have anticipated during these early shoots. He also laments the star's recent (presumed) plastic surgery, noting, "What's wrong with getting older? I don't think it's that bad."