Pioneer paparazzo Ron Galella's tribute
A dozen photographers gathered yesterday at Nello on Madison Avenue to pay
homage to Ron Galella, 79, the pioneer paparazzo who prompted Jackie
O to get a restraining order and provoked Marlon Brando into breaking five
of his teeth. "Brando spent three days in the hospital from paparazzi
bacteria . . . I won $40,000 in that lawsuit," Galella bragged to Hampton
Sheet publisher Joan Jedell. Watching the shutterbugs devour white
truffles, restaurateur Nello Balan said, "There are more cameras in
here than J&R."