Madonna & Rosanna Arquette: Making the Desperately Seeking Susan Poster #madonna #rosannaarquette

In the fall of 1984, I worked as the production publicist on Susan Seidelman's "Desperately Seeking Susan." The studio asked me to set up a special photography session with Madonna and Rosanna Arquette, and photographer Herb Ritts. The photo shoot was only supposed to be about getting publicity shots for magazines to use to accompany interviews, but I decided I would try and get a poster too. This video is the first in what will be a series of videos about my wild and woolly career as a movie publicist. : ) Enjoy! 00:00 Introduction 00:13 The Magic Club 1:33 John Turturro 1:44 Ann Magnuson 2:07 Tom DiCillo 3:08 Herb Ritts Photo Session 3:51 Asking Madonna (uh oh) 5:23 My poster idea - The Jacket 7:20 Getting the Jackets from Santo Loquasto 8:26 Saturday - Day of Shoot 9:29 Rosanna and Madonna's Complicated Relationship 12:10 My Relationship With Madonna 17:24 Andre Leon Talley Arrives??? 20:10 I beg Herb to Shoot My Poster Idea 20:29 The Poster Shoot 21:48 The Results of the Photo Shoot 23:01 The Ad Meeting at Orion 25:58 Encountering the Poster in London 27:57 This is the first of many stories Photo Credits: Poster image by Herb Ritts - Poster by Orion Pictures All set photos from "Desperately Seeking Susan" by Andrew Schwartz (for Orion Pictures) http://www.andrewschwartzphoto.com/ Herb Ritts photo from Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:He... Ann Magnuson photo when she was manager at Club 57 - Robert Carrithers - CC BY-SA 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Andre Leon Talley - Photo by David Shankbone CC 3.0 Attribution Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...