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However, the occasion on which he was informed of Candy’s terminal cancer seems to have been the only time anyone among his associates ever saw Andy weep.

Years later, when Warhol, at the time in his early fifties, posed for photographs of himself in drag by his friend Chris Makos, he chose to style himself in the manner of Candy: an impeccable blonde coiffure, meticulous old-Hollywood makeup, a cool, screen-goddess stare. How could one not interpret this as, at least in part, a strange and touching tribute to his late friend, collaborator, and Superstar?

-- Anne Loretto

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