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Article: From Brando to Scavullo: 2004's Many Losses.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2005
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Byline: Rex Reed
The tree is in the trash, the New Year's hangovers are fading and the leftover Perrier-Jouet is ready for that back shelf in the fridge, but before we begin anew, it's a good time to raise a glass and drink one last toast to the friends we loved and lost in 2004. Harold Arlen and Truman Capote got it right when they wrote the song "Don't Like Goodbyes," but saying adios to the year just ending seems doubly sad.
I tend to forget obituaries when I read them, because I never want to believe them in the first place. But now the shock is justified. I mean, any year that begins its farewells with the elegant photographer Francesco Scavullo ...