The whole backdrop fell off!
He was photographing Robert Mapplethorpe informally in 1980 (it was one of those indulgent "Can I photograph you? And can I photograph you back?" trade-offs that photographers like to do, he says) when the studio backdrop fell down.
Any effect the scene is able to muster relies not on the power of the work itself but on the ability of simple visual cues — spindly towers, radiant blue backdrop, falling paper — to jog the audience members' own memories.
Hawkins, 59, has said she has suffered headaches, neck and back pain since a television studio backdrop fell on her in 1982.
May's speech was a triumph compared with last year's disastrous event, when she was plagued by a cough, interrupted by a prankster and had parts of the stage backdrop fall down as she was speaking.
It is not surprising that much of the collection was written on or about a bus, as these poems gather singular yet impressionistic scenes of life as though they were backdrop falling away outside a moving window--what matters is not merely that the scenes exist, or that they matter to someone, but that they move, as we who see them must remember that we ourselves are always moving.
"The Bridge," which has a bigger budget, a cast that includes Diane Kruger ("Inglourious Basterds") and Demian Bichir ("Weeds"), and a far more combustible backdrop, somehow falls short.
The final backdrop to fall showed a minor train-stop somewhere in the snow-clad Rocky Mountains.
Gavin Darby, chief executive, said it was an achievement against a backdrop of falling food prices.
It was as though a backdrop had fallen, perhaps the wrong one," Liese tells us.
