So I get a call recently from Robert Tanenbaum, the great movie poster
artist who drew the poster for the BEST Christmas movie EVER, "A Christmas
Story", and he tells me he is preparing a book showing the original
paintings of his posters, and asks if I will help him get the word out
after it is published.
I tell him I gladly will, and he says he will include in the book some
"behind the scenes" stories about the posters. I ask for an example and he
tells me that when he was assigned to draw the poster for "A Christmas
Story", the studio sent over some black and white images of the family, and
told him to use his imagination.
He naturally included the image of Ralphie in the bunny suit, but because
it was a black and white image, he of course made the bunny suit white. And
that's why, when he saw the movie, and saw it was actually pink, all he
could think of was WHY didn't they tell him it was pink either before or
after he drew the poster, so he could "get it right"!
Mr. Tanenbaum is 86 years young and sharp as a tack, and he has a website
at http://www.tanenbaumart.com/
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(and I will let you know when his book is published!).
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