Stitched Portraits: Talia Shire

Sister To Francis Ford Coppola, mother to Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire was an important women to the influential men around her. Sylvester Stallone even hand picked her to be his girlfriend in Rocky.

Yesterday, being faced with the tough choice of drawing either Edward R. Murrow or Ms. Shire, I picked the former because I kept going back to this young picture of her and just couldn't get it out of my head. Plus - she shares the same name as my wife...

In her fresh-faced youth, Talia Shire: