Stars in My Eyes

''Despite his childhood reverence toward movie stars, Bachardy manages to see them quite unsentimentally. He notices things other artists would not, like the way Ginger Rogers's cluttered house reflected her state of mind. Even though a certain level of deference was required to get him in the door, Bachardy wrote that 'the confrontation between my sitter and me is the subject of my pictures.' Nowhere is this more evident than in an eight-hour encounter with Bette Davis. Bachardy records that she veered from hospitality to brittle resistance to self-pity, and his recollection is richer than most celebrity profiles you'll read this year."Don Bachardy is the author of 'Stars in My Eyes', published 2000 under ISBN 9780299167301 and ISBN 0299167305.