We tossed and turned about covering Farrah’s service today. We finally decided that since it is a news story and as there was already a large media presence in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels that it would be OK. All of the large news organizations lined up hours in advance and our freelance photographers kept their distance out of respect. Farrah will be missed by Los Angeles and the world.
Here is a great foto that our Brad Elterman took at a 1980 at a Rolling stones concert backstage. That is Farrah Fawcett, Ryan, Griffin and Tatum O’Neal. They all posed for Brad because he asked first! Ryan said years later after seeing this photo that this was the happiest period of his life. This foto is currently appearing in this week’s People Magazine and that is the why photographers should never give up their copyright!
This foto has significance because of all the trouble Tatum O’Neal has been in lately. Tatum has recently alleged that her father Ryan exposed Tatum to his celebrity bachelor lifestyle at a young age. She has made claims in her autobiography that when she was only 13, her father took her and her friend Melanie Griffith on a trip to Europe, where she caught him having sex with Griffith in their hotel room. She also claims that when her father left for a movie shoot, she smoked opium with Griffith and then invited a male hairdresser and his girlfriend to their hotel room where the four of them participated in an orgy that Griffith had dragged her into.