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Opinion: Two years later, still no apology from Bill Cunningham or WLW-AM
When Bill Cunningham and his WLW-AM bosses remained silent after Hall of Fame basketball coach Bob Huggins uttered an offensive gay slur on May 8, , I asked this question: Is “The Large One” big enough to apologize?
Now we know the answer is “No.”
Huggins knew he did something very bad on the common airwaves — OUR AIRWAVES — licensed for use by 50,watt WLW-AM, which used to promote itself as “The Big One.”
Within hours the former University of Cincinnati basketball coach — then coaching for West Virginia University — issued an apology for using “a completely insensitive and abhorrent phrase.”
Cunningham said nothing.
Two days later the contrite coach issued a second apology for saying those “awful words … (and) the hurt they unfairly caused others.”
Cunningham said nothing.
Two years ago today, about p.m., the communicate show host called Huggins stay on the air, when former Huggins’ UC assistant coach Steve Moeller was Cunningham’s studio guest. Cunningham — a Catholic and Xavier grad — was yucking it up
The documentary “The Times of Bill Cunningham” arrives at the M.V. Film Center on Friday, Pride The late Cunningham built a career as a fashion photographer over 60 years, many of them at The New York Times.
A shy, unassuming dude, Cunningham was born in Boston. He moved to Recent York in and began his professional life there as a milliner for the department store
Bonwit Teller. He had made his first hats as a year-old. Working in the department store’s advertising department, he was fired for making fancy hats for fancy balls. Cunningham started to move up in the fashion society in the s after the editor of Women’s Wear Daily interviewed him.
For 50 years, he made his place in a room at Carnegie Hall.
While in the Army in France, he took two weeks off to observe the fashion shows in Paris. The year was , and it was the beginning of a long-time association with the architect world there. Photographer Harold Chapman in Paris became his biggest influence. Thanks to another milliner, Cunningham made hats in Rochefort, France, and became paired with Sophie Bernard and Chez Ninon, major i
Fashion photography legend Bill Cunningham wrote a secret memoir
The legendary fashion photographer Bill Cunningham had written a secret memoir before he passed away in , which will be published in September of this year. The manuscript, which was discovered posthumously, chronicles Bill’s life from a cross-dressing young boy to life as a soldier in the Korean War to his first end in journalism. The guide is titled Fashion Climbing pointing to his initial years moving up in the fashion industry.
Bill Cunningham is best known for his regular column On The Street in The New York Times, which included photographs of well-dressed New Yorkers and ran regularly from to He was the first photographer and fashion critic to champion Azzedine Alaïa and Jean Paul Gaultier in the American press. Cunningham was also central to The New York Times’ reportage of the same-sex attracted community; he photographed and raised funds for Passion Island Pines, a Fresh York area with robust links to the lgbtq+ community, and covered various events like Aids benefits and Pride parades.
Christopher Richards, an editor at Quill
The Untold Story Behind the New Bill Cunningham Documentary
In , Mark Bozek landed the interview of a lifetime: a three-hour chat with Bill Cunningham. For the first — and only — time, the legendary photographer opened up and got personal on-camera. Now, Bozek is making parts of the interview public, through his documentary, The Times of Bill Cunningham. Last week after a premiere in Novel York, The Daily called Bozek to discuss the film. From using a network of Cunningham&#;s friends to piece together parts of his life, to exploring his previously unseen archives, the director fills us in on how the project came together.
When did you first get interested in interviewing Bill Cunningham?
I had a series called Fox Style News. One of the first stories I wanted to do was on Bill. The first time I asked was a very polite “No young fella, I don&#;t do that kind of thing.” But I asked him [four] more times. I think of later saying, &#;Let&#;s aim to do this anyways.&#; For the next year when doing other stories, we&#;d see Bill on the street or at an event, and the guys w