The Fahey/Klein Gallery played host to Lion's Gate marketing genius Tim Palen, who had a quickie week-long exhibit of his gorgeously gruesome photos (fittingly, during this past Halloween season). Tim created the posters and marketing campaigns that helped make the SAW franchise a mind-bogglingly money-making machine. Thanks to Sue Wong and the fancy dress code at the Magic Castle (where we were going after Tim's show) I made the fashion-oriented pages of last Sunday's L.A. Times IMAGE section. (Where do I send the fruit basket?)

According to the article in the Times, Tim's GUTS exhibit "drew a vast crowd as eclectic as an aquarium." I managed to snag snaps of some of the bigger fish -- Tim P. with SAW producer Oren Koules, Sylvester Stallone with his lovely wife Jennifer Flavin, former PAPER cover girl Debi Mazar with her lovely husband Gabriele Corcos, Donovan Leitch with his lovely daughter (whose mom is supermodel Kristy Hume) and, of course, a close-up of Tim Palen's GUTS.

Photo above by Ann Johansson/L.A. Times
Photos below by Ann Magnuson/L.A. Woman

Tim Palen and Oren Koules

Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin

Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corco

Donovan Leitch and daughter

Tim Palen's GUTS