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Susskind hold up a black and white picture of Jackie O - her hair blowing in the wind while walking on Madison Ave, NYC INTERVIEW: Ron Galella This is my favorite picture of Jackie. When she was walking on Madison Avenue. I sneaked a picture from a taxi window and caught her off guard it has the elements would I have paparazzi photography, David Susskind unrehearsed, am I catching her on the run? Right? Okay, here's another one, which clearly shows our famous Ron Galella hiding in a coat rack. You see him over there. He's in a club. Dining. Ron Galella This is a Chinese restaurant down Chinatown and David Susskind there's Onassis annacis deceased Ron Galella Jackie. I hid behind a coat rack because that's the only place I could hide in its very intimate restaurant. David Susskind Okay. Now, here she seems to be smiling at you. Just tell me she unlike you very much. He sued you. Right. You have to say 25 feet Ron Galella 25 feet by court order. Right. David Susskind Why is she smiling at you? Ron Galella Well, it seems like she changed and mellowed since Eris death. I believe she made a big change. And she's not only finally with me, but other photographers in the press as well. David Susskind She is smiling at you. Yes. Okay. Now they have very hazardous work these photographers and sometimes they get pictures. I had to put a bandaid across Ali McGraw. She said studio 54 with Ron Galella Larry Spangler, her boyfriend boyfriend right. This picture has gotten me in trouble with the studio 54 David Susskind I can understand it because you see under this band aid will never mind. Ron Galella The veining photoplay if she's pretty bad breast green and Playboy magazine. Yeah, another bag. David Susskind How much did you get for that picture Ron Galella $200 in the Great points like they didn't use a band aid, no band aid? No. Well, David Susskind you'll have to get a magazine or something. Here is another Kennedy. This is John Kennedy and his sister Caroline Caroline, on their way to the famous birthday party had a mutual birthday party at a club, which turned into quite a brawl. Right? Right out of that happen. Let's get the brawl scene. There's a John Kennedy. In the middle of being restrained by one of his friends. I gather Ron Galella to one of the photographers was one of the freelance paparazzi were pushed to the ground. And actually, John Kennedy here wanted to stop the fight. And others held sense of his held him back from getting more involved. David Susskind Good thing too, right. You might have been hurt. Okay, here in case you've ever dreamed of this man as a companion on a desert island. This is Bob Dylan. Ron Galella He's one of the toughest to get very elusive. David Susskind Speaking of tough stars to get there's another tough one. Ron Galella But his girlfriend's not so tough. She's peeping through the limousine. David Susskind That's Mick Jagger right here. And there's a girl peeking through saying get me get me Jerry Hall model. Yeah. Is he issuing some threat to you there? No, he's not actually Ron Galella I was asking him to pose with her. And she cooperated without him knowing it. Right. And peeping through and I got a good shot. David Susskind Now this fellow doesn't like to be photographed. Yeah, just Alpha Chino, opportunity. And this girl, Ron Galella Martha Keller And this was taken in the lobby where he lives. This was a he went to a screening went David Susskind Formal I take it in. Ron Galella Right. That's his formal outfit. And I got him in the lobby when he went to the elevator. David Susskind Here's the lady who hates being photographed. I know that firsthand. Her name is Greta Barbo Ron Galella I think she's one of the most sincere ones that don't want to be photographed. David Susskind A lot of them are faking it right. They really love it. Ron Galella That's true, I believe that, David Susskind okay. And here we have a picture that the lady should pay 1000s to have destroyed. Here is the one and only Barbra Streisand Ron Galella and Paul Williams David Susskind and Paul Williams that Ron Galella This shows with the camera. Sometimes it plays tricks on us. But David Susskind that is not a trick. That's your face. No, Ron Galella I think for the most part, what we do is we play mad. We create glamour with these celebrities. And it's just sometimes we catch them in an uncompromising shot. David Susskind And here's another such shot because here's old blue eyes, with bulging punch and thinning hair. He couldn't have been thrilled about this shot. Ron Galella Well, he was in a good mood Fortunately, that offered free golf course in Palm Springs where he lives. David Susskind Can you pull back Mr. Camera man and show a little of the little he's pulling out what good eating does for you. Now we come to a romantic duet Ron Galella Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. David Susskind Yeah, that used to be there's Woody the inimitable well dressed Woody. And there's Diane Keaton one of the beautiful, talented actresses Ron Galella Woody is one of the shy ones well pretends to be I think he's sincere. I think he is shy David Susskind And Diane Keaton has gone on to win the Academy Award for Annie Hall. There she is with her former friend. And now she's with Mr. Love. Warren Beatty, Warren vagaro man who holds the American record for volume Ron Galella is crossing the street going to the Beverly Wilshire hotel. David Susskind It is said of Warren Beatty, if it breeds nevermind. Here's a very hard to photograph man now, during first rate work and recovered from his form of problems, Richard Burton, where'd you get that? Ron Galella This was taken at the Plaza Hotel. He was actually in a good mood even though this picture shows looking like he's angry. But other times he was I got him once at the Dorchester Hotel he was really angry at me wants to suck me and lose, held him back and avoided the punch. Here's David Susskind Elvis Presley shortly before he died giving you some indication of how he'd gone to pot. He was very heavy, overweight, deeply fatigue. Those are his bodyguards Ron Galella yes. A few of them. He has about 15 of them. David Susskind Here's a favorite fellow, he punched you This is Marlon Brando and the man in the mask. The man in the headgear is our own Ron Galella hiding as a football player gun a monk Ron Galella This is after he blasted me with a punch and knocked out what teeth David Susskind you see that 140 1000 bucks Ron Galella at a court settlement David Susskind That's, that's a 10,000 a tooth Ron Galella Rifht, he shook my hand about a couple of years later recently. David Susskind Here's a fella that would be president. His name is Jerry Brown. He's governor of California. And he's often rumored to be with this lady that he is in fact with in this photograph. Yeah. Ron Galella Linda Rondstat. It's definitely a romance. With them. David Susskind You promise? Would you vote for this fellow for President? Ron Galella Well, you see, we can't base it on his on his private life. No. I don't know enough about him. Okay, Judge. David Susskind Well, we've got a born again, Christian, we can have a reconstructed Jesuit, I mean, anyway, let's go on now to some other photographs. Yes.