Warning: Adults Only and Equus first night

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "krista7" <erikog at ...> wrote:
>
> > I know we are generally an adult group but I want to add
> > special ***ADULTS ONLY WARNING***.
> > 
> > At the link below you will find a general article about
> > Dan Radcliffe appearing nude and smoking on stage. 
> > However, there is one additional feature, and relative
> > to this one features, I must again warn *Adults Only*.
> > 
> > Scroll down below the 'Google Ads' until you see a
> > small postage stamp sized photo of Dan. Even from the
> > very small photo you can see it is one of the publicity
> > shots for 'Equus'. HOWEVER, is has NOT been crop at
> > the delicate and strategic area.
 
Krista:
> I haven't followed the link (I'm not exactly comfortable 
> with seeing Dan this way!) but my understanding is that 
> any true nude shots of Dan are Photoshops. One celeb site 
> (Oh No They Didn't) debunked at least
> one nude photo by saying either the photographer or Dan 
> had noted in an article that no full-frontal photos of 
> Dan existed--they didn'ttake a single true full nude shot,
>  because they knew it would not end up being used in the 
> sphere of just play publicity.

Geoff:
I've only just caught up on this thread not having visited the 
site for a few days. A couple of thoughts.

(1) Just to support Krista's comment with regard to the fully 
nude photo, I came across it when  I was browsing through 
some of the early newspaper reports about a fortnight ago. 
They were then coming off a German photography site (in 
Cologne IIRC) and were definitely labelled as manips created 
using Photoshop.

(2) Here, on the morning after, BBC television news programmes 
have been covering the first "official" night with interviews 
including Daniel and Richard Griffiths plus celebrity comments 
at the theatre.

There is also a pretty good review online from "The Daily 
Telegraph" at telegraph.co.uk/news.