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| World's biggest
scandals were mostly matters of the flesh. Photofeature » |
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Few lives have run through
such a varied gamut in so short a time and been so eventful. Protima
Bedi. The almost-show-all model to the show-all streaker whose bare-dare
blitz on the Bombay roads and the Juhu beach remains unmatched till
date. No wonder then that the mere mention of her name brings salacious
smiles on faces.
India's original flower child, she flaunted an I-care-a-damn attitude
and sluiced through double standards and pseudo-morality in society.
For the teen gang, she became an icon of the 1970s.
There was practically nothing she did not try in just 39 years - an
open marriage with Kabir Bedi, relationships with artists, politicians,
fought off ugly memories of a childhood rape and the hurt of being
the unwanted child. Then the immediate and extreme switch to an Odissi
danseuse who toiled with her own hands to create Nrityagram.
In her own words: "I did what I bloody well felt like doing."
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| HTTabloid
» DareBareIndians »
Dressing Down |
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| Thu, Dec 19, 2002 |
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A glam ma'am to Gaurima - Protima
has done it all. India's original flower child... |
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| Fri, Dec 20, 2002 |
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| A navy officer, a playboy &
an English beauty and ... three deadly shots. Nanavati files. |
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| Sat, Dec 21, 2002 |
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It was sex, lies and videotape,
oops! polaroid pics flashed by the Gandhi bahu, Maneka. |
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| Dressing Down!!! |
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| When John F Kennedy Jr got married, the
editor of the US tabloid Star sent a posse of reporters and photographers to scoop
the event. On Bunton's command, photographers and reporters swarmed to Georgia
to break through the Kennedy family's security ring. Boats were chartered and
set sail on the mission. A braveheart even tried to swim across. But they failed
to breach the cover. Bunton said later: "It was a total disaster."
The big breaks
Setbacks, however, have never deterred the hounds in pursuit.
Their persistence yielded few of the most mind-blowing photos in the early '90s.
A memorable one was a Daily News photo of an explosion in a horse carriage.
A staff photographer who happened to be there snapped the picture before the
police could cordon the area. The paper was the only one with the photo and
it made a historical contribution to the tabloid press.
Another famous Daily News photo in the 1920s was that
of Ruth Snyder's death on the electric chair. Snyder had been convicted along
with Judd Gray for the murder of her husband Albert Snyder. No camera had ever
been permitted in the death chamber.
Tom Howard from the Washington Bureau of P&A. Photographs was chosen to
capture the impossible. To get his photo he strapped a camera to his ankle and
ran a long cable release up his leg and through a hole in his pants pocket.
When all was set, Howard hitched up his trousers just far enough to clear the
lens, placed his leg in a position which he hoped would aim the camera at the
chair, and pushed the release.
And the Daily News ran the picture of Ruth Snyder slumped in the electric chair
with the headline in bold: "Dead".
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