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Learn about the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits, nudes, and BDSM images. Find out how his art sparked controversy and debate in the US, and how he founded the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to fight AIDS.
The Perfect Moment was the most comprehensive retrospective of works by New York photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.The show spanned twenty-five years of his career, featuring celebrity portraits, self-portraits, interracial figure studies, floral still lifes, homoerotic images, and collages.
Jim Thorpe was a versatile athlete who won two Olympic gold medals in 1912, played professional football, baseball, and basketball, and was the first president of the NFL. He was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and faced hardships after his sports career ended.
Laurie David is an American environmental activist, producer, and writer who produced An Inconvenient Truth and co-wrote Imagine It! A Handbook for a Happier Planet. She is also a former talent coordinator for Late Night with David Letterman and a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Jeremy Thorpe was a British politician who led the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. He was tried for conspiracy and incitement to murder his ex-boyfriend Norman Scott, but was acquitted in 1979.
Michael Zaslow (1942-1998) was an American actor who played Roger Thorpe on Guiding Light and other roles on Star Trek, One Life to Live and Broadway. He died of ALS and his wife founded a charity to fight the disease.
Lieutenant Robert Thorpe (1838–1868 [1]) was an officer of the British Indian Army. [2] He visited Kashmir during the reign of Maharaja Ranbir Singh and wrote about the sufferings of the Kashmiri people .
The Thorpe affair was a British political and sex scandal that ended the career of Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal Party. Norman Scott, a former friend and lover of Thorpe, accused him of trying to murder him and exposed their homosexual relationship in the 1970s.