Express/Gossip by Ros Reines

Ono says yes

PROVING that she does have a soft side, Biennale installation artist Yoko Ono graciously posed exclusively for the lens of Sunday Telegraph snapper Robert Rosen, after the two met at a press conference last week.

It seems Rosen was determined to take a portrait of Ono for inclusion in Kelloggs' Beating the Blues a celebrity portrait auction taking place at Fox Studios to raise funds for Kids Help Line.

Publicists initially knocked him back, but he decided to ask Ono very nicely when he saw her anyway.

"I only had five minutes," Rosen revealed, "but I had my black backdrop with me, and we got along very well.

"So I had no problems taking the portrait, although I had butterflies in my stomach."

Ono was so pleased with the Polaroid that she asked Rosen for a copy of the photo and gave him her New York address.

Other celebrities whose portraits appear in next Thursday's auction are Kate Fischer, Geoffrey Rush, Toni Collette, Baz Luhrmann and Barry Humphries.

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH May 28, 2000


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