While relaxing in bed in Miami in the offseason, head chef Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) is far from the Overlook Hotel, but keeping his mind mentally close at hand, knowing the evils that lurk there. He is shaken from his chill state when Danny "shines" to him an S.O.S. of the trouble that is brewing. The paralyzed look on his face alone is pause-worthy, but more so is the "tasteful" art that hangs in Hallorann's bedroom, both above his TV, and his bed frame.
Kubrick was no shrinking violet when it came to sexuality in his films — from the characters on screen, to sets often decorated with erotic art (see "A Clockwork Orange"). Hallorann's two pieces of art are both stark, and stark naked, and briefly take our minds off the worries at hand. A long-running mystery has been the origin of the art, and to this day, only one of the two have been identified.
The one above Hallorann's TV, featuring a woman with both a large necklace and Afro, is a poster featuring model Azizi Johari titled "Supernatural Dream." According to Empire, Johari doesn't even own a copy of the out of print poster and had "NO clue I was even in the movie. I don't do horror." She later was introduced to Nicholson via their Kubrick connection, and said "it was funny to see the look of surprise, shock, on both our faces!"
