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...know now is: Who gets whacked this season? People die in the Mob, and Chase has killed off major characters before (including Vincent Pastore's "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero and Tony's mother Livia, after the death of actress Nancy Marchand, who played her). When HBO released an Annie Leibovitz promotional photo of the cast (see opening spread), the New York Post scrutinized it for clues as if it were the cover of Abbey Road. (Why is Paulie wearing a white suit? Is he with the angels?) But when it comes to secrets--down to admitting whether they appear...
Asked by the audience how she decided whom to photograph, Leibovitz said "it all came down to reading The New York Times." She said she tracked down people she read about in the newspaper and sought to photograph them...
...some cases, Leibovitz said, her ideas conflicted with the model's. She cited the example of Yoko Ono, who Leibovitz thought could take a "strong" head shot, under hard light, with enlarged details. To Leibovitz's surprise, Ono was dissatisfied with the final product and had to be appeased with a softer portrait...
...While Leibovitz denied any intention in this respect, she discussed the circumstances surrounding the making of the book--many of which contributed to the tone...
...Leibovitz said she was profoundly influenced by Sontag's chemotherapy sessions, a time during which she said Sontag was "obsessed with death...