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5 Feet of Fury

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Hey, screw you — that’s my retirement plan

June 6, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Now in his early eighties, Galella has been racking up the tributes lately, proving that annoyances who stick around long enough can eventually become cultural darlings—these days his photos hang at MoMA and are collected around the world. What is this salvage process that hoists professional vulgarians who sprout a few gray hairs up the cultural rungs into respectability, rebranding them as benign and lovable figures?

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