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Ritts photos hill of glamour, superstars PARIS (AP) - You could say Herb Ritts has it easy. The celebrity photogra pher’s address book would make most society hostesses weep with envy. Although his pictures helped defme the image-conscious ’80s and ’90s, his lens is more than a peephole into a world ofbig names and egos. It also dis torts celebrities, sometimes stripping them of their mystique and turning die famous into the unfamiliar. An exhibition of Ritts’ work - his first in Paris - is on view at the Fondation Cartier until March. Some 15,000 people have seen the show since it opened in December. Chance and connections propelled Ritts into the world of celebrity photog raphy in the ’70s. He got to know Richard Gere through someone who was dating the actor at the time. A drive in the desert led to a flat tire and an impromptu photo session in a service station. The result? A photo of a steamy Gere in a white vest, his arms over his head and a cigarette dangling from his mouth. “I can’t remember whether I told Richard to put his arms over his head or whether I just clicked when he stretched. And he really smoked a lot. He was like that, a handsome kid and very sexy,” die Los Angeles-based pho tographer told Francois Quintin, associ ate curator at Fondation Cartier, in an interview for the show’s catalog. At the time, Gere was an unknown. A year later he was a star, and Ritts ’ pho tos were being used as publicity shots. His access to celebrities, even at their most fragile moments, gives Ritts an edge. He has photographed Christopher Reeve, wired up and immobile in a high-tech wheelchair. In another photograph, Elizabeth Taylor is sporting a crew cut and die scar result ing from her brain surgery. • < - H Ritts sometimes uses die camera to distort. Michelle Pfeiffer is posed as Cary, Grant, almost unrecognizable with slicked-back black hair and sar donic smile. Glenn Close is pho Ritts is not someone who attacks subjects in a direct, aggressive manner, but in a very glam, sugared manner.” Francois Quintin associate curator at Fondation Cartier tographed in heavy stage makeup for her role in “Sunset Boulevard.” Demi Moore, shot with shaved head buried in outstretched arms, could be anyone. ihe 1UU black-and-white pho tographs on display include Madonna on the cover of her 1986 “True Blue” album; jazz great Dizzy Gillespie with exaggerated cheeks; and “Fred With Tires,” a 1984photo of ahunky, muscle bound man lugging heavy tires. “Ritts is not someone who attacks subjects in a direct, aggressive manner, but in a very glam, sugared manner. He deals with fundamental problems,” Quintinsaid. Supermodel Naomi Campbell is posed as a traditional pinup, her head coquettishly turned, legs outstretched. “We look at her and are happy and forget that black women were never pin ups,” Quintin said. “In taking this photo, Ritts is very conscious of die fact that he is creating an image that has virtually no precedent” Picasso name paints new autos ■ Director of Picasso Museum Criticizes selling the name of the artist. PARIS (AP) - Pots and pans in China, underwear in Southeast Asia, trucks in Chile, and now, a car from France. Hard to believe they’re all Picassos. In name only, of course. The Paris-based Picasso Estate, which represents the artist’s heirs, spends millions yearly fighting the illicit use of what is arguably the most famous name in 20th century art. Which is why many French were shocked when the estate gave its blessing - for a price it refused to reveal - to the new Citroen Xsara Picasso, a snappy, high-sitting town car billed as practical and fun to drive. Putting the name to the car “is a strategic decision designed to pre vent other companies from stealing the name and using it,” said Claudia Andrieu, the Picasso Estate’s legal adviser. “It’s the family’s approach to bat tling fakes,” she said in a telephone interview. “A do-nothing attitude leads to exploitation.” Some purists, however, are horri fied by what they see as crass com mercialism. -• “Assimilating genius with a mass-produced consumer item is scandalous,” wrote Picasso Museum director Jean Clair in the daily Liberation. Clair said he was offended by Citroen’s latest ad campaign, which depicts a tough-looking museum guard restraining a visitor from touching a nude bather in Picasso’s “Figures au bord de la Mer” (Figures At the Shore). The visitor then is presented a Picasso he can touch - the new Xsara. Clair said the ad ridiculed the Picasso Museum, belittling the guards as they try to protect its price less collection of Picasso master pieces. Comparing the museum employ ees’ meager salaries to the hefty roy alties earned by Picasso’s heirs, he went on to question the family’s motives for “selling their father’s name even though their fortune appears to have sheltered them from need.” The Picasso Estate represents the interests of Claude and Paloma Picasso, the children of Francoise Gilot; Maya Picasso, the daughter of Marie-Therese Walter; and grand children Marina and Bernard Picasso, bom to the artist’s son, Paul. Andrieu said the family was not offended by the ad and stood by its partnership with Citroen. About 15 companies manufac turing products, including candles and lighters, have bought the rights to the name, but thousands more use it illegally, Andrieu said. “There are underwear and inflat able dolls in Southeast Asia, trucks and spare parts in Chile, mobile homes in Britain and thousands of products in China alone,” she said. She said the family, with the notable exception of designer Paloma, who has developed her own line of beauty products and home furnishings, had no intention of turn ing Picasso into a brand name. Andrieu said the family chose to work with Citroen because of the company’s long-standing image of excellence in design. “We’re better off with a partner of our choice where we have a say in things,” she said. Citroen says polls showed that people associated “creativity, inven tion and modernity” with Picasso. “Our polls show that name Career Services Snapshot ^ ...see what’s developing in Career Services I UNL Career Services — 230 NE Union — 316 East Campus Union recognition for Picasso is enormous, and that’s what we wanted in launch ing the new model around the world,” said Citroen spokesman Frederic Lepeytre. The new Xsara Picasso also is more affordable than the real thing. Models cost between $19,600 $25,000. ! $7.50; Hairport Salon 4711 Hunington _ shampoo: $3 extra a exp. 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