Crazy, Sexy, Cool

by U.S. Weekly Magazine

Book Overview

Featuring performers such as Jennifer Aniston, Johnny Depp, Alicia Silverstone and Michael Stipe, this is a collection of photographs of pop culture icons. Designed by Rolling Stone's art director, it... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316553530
• ISBN13: 9780316553537
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.8" x 13.9"

Customer Reviews

Great book for the celebrity hound

I love this book! Great as a gift or just to feast your eyes on celebrities. Top Quality Book - and I know what's sexy! - Kristy Welsh, Author of "Good Credit is Sexy"

Gorgeous Good-Humored Celebrity Fun!

I cannot remember ever seeing a book of photography as filled with fun as this collection of images from Us Magazine. The humor is solid and clean, something that comedians have a hard time duplicating. The book is greatly enhanced by the special genius of Mark Seliger for this type of work. Before going further, let me caution you that some images are of partially undressed women that would earn this material an R rating (on the soft side) if it were contained in a motion picture. The photographs are reproduced in both color and black-and-white. The reproduction quality is very high, and the editors have chosen well where to use two-page spreads and where not to. Although not every image displays good-humored fun, about two-thirds of them do. The book probably would have worked even better if every image had followed that theme. In most cases, the image itself is a happy one that also contains a joke about the celebrity involved . . . creating two ways to have a fun with the image. Here are my favorite images in the book: Drew Barrymore (cover shot) holding boxing globes up as a visual bra as she stands in a sparring pose in a boxing ring by Mark Seliger;Elizabeth Shue nude holding a dog by Mark Seliger;Patrick Swayze in a slip by Mary Ellen Mark;Emma Thompson undressed but covered by the bottom of a stage curtain wrapped around her by Neil Davenport;A puckish looking Hugh Grant by Jon Ragel;Kato Kaelin in a swimming pool that magnifies the size of his torso by Mary Ellen Mark;Jodie Foster laughing by Mark Seliger;Ashley Judd as Marilyn Monroe wrapped in a sheet in bed by Mark Seliger;Jason Priestley as an urban cowboy tough guy by Lance Staedler;Whoopi Goldberg looking alarmed by Mark Seliger;Helen Hunt half-wearing a man's white shirt with a wistful smile by Mark Seliger;Sharon Stone looking like a 40's pinup or a 50's Playboy model with lots of fluff by Andrew MacPherson;Julie Louis-Dreyfus spitting water like a fountain statue by Jon Ragel;Garry Shandling seriously sitting in business attire in front of a burning desk he cannot see behind him by Mark Seliger;Leonardo DiCaprio thinking in mismatched, outrageous clothing by Mark Seliger;Kennedy wearing a veil, and using an arm and a hand to create modesty over an otherwise nude body in a take-off on the classic ways to pose nude women without being too revealing by Mark Seliger;Smiling Rosie Perez by Dewey Nicks;Sting in a bathtub with rubber duckies by Max Vadukul;Siegfried and Roy doing an illusion by Mark Seliger;Juliette Lewis featuring her face and the soles of her feet by Peggy Sirota;Smiling Lisa Kudrow by Davis Factor;Matthew Perry by Andrew D. Berstein;Gamine-like Sandra Bullock by Kate Garner;a funny, foreshortened Paul Hartman by Mark Seliger; andDavid Schwimmer curtseying in a t-shirt and khakis. "You are a vision of nowness" is the description of this book written inside. I personally found the images more timeless than that. You get a sense of what is universally app

A great book with great pictures

In this book, there are lots of pictures of celebrities. There is also a selection of quotes from celebrities. It is worth the money.

Excellent 'coffee table' book...and for autographing

Actually, I have two favorite celebrity photography books: this one and Rolling Stone: Photographers. I am an avid autograph collector; so, I use these books whenever I hear about a celebrity being in the area. At the moment, I have this book signed by Denis Leary and Stephen Dorf..with more to come, I hope. About the only photograph I didn't like was the two-pager of Alicia Silverstone. It doesn't really look like her. This is definitely a great book to have on the coffee table for company while you're still getting ready. :)

Very snappy, cool, and up-to-date collection of photography

Crazy, Sexy, Cool is one of the best books one can buy if you like stars/celebrities. The collection of photographs, from the pages of US magazine show celebrities in intimate, off-guard circumstances, and many of the shots are either funny, sexy (the title gives it away), or really telling of the personality. I think US really delivers on letting you "inside" to get to know people --- not like most magazines do, but better. This book shows you the best of the past couple years of the magazine, and its a great book to have to see the stars you like: Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson, Nicholas Cage, Mira SOrvino, Cindy Crawford.... Lots of babes, men and women. Its gonna be a stocking stuffer for a couple of my friends this year!