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are you getting anybody Jessica the

through the magazine said that

after cup fill another it's a really

weird scary feeling disoriented you

can't see in front of you it's like it's

false imprisonment I can't get away I

can't get out I can't get out of a store

because these guys are blocking the door

can't get to my car when I'm in my car

they're surrounding me I can't see the

flashlight box it's nighttime I can't my

vision is impaired

it's high-stress

I've been shooting since the eighties

and celebrity photography has changed a

lot what big award shows there are about

50 60 guys in the pen and they're all

fighting for the same image they're

trying to get a head shot or a

full-length fashion shot they're

screaming at the celebrities trying to

get eye contact into their camera I on

the other hand though I'm outside the

pen I'm on the red carpet where I go

right up to them I can make them pose

for me give me high contact what set up

a shot you'll talk to the PR people and

they'll even tell you flat out we don't

need all these guitars it's just for

Cameron Show basically all we need is

like five or six guys but no we want all

these photographers here because it

looks great on camera and it makes it

look more glamorous Hollywood if you

look in the magazines and on all these

websites and TV shows you've seen all

these celebrities where does it really

come from the red carpet is just one

piece of what's become a billion dollar

a year industry

I'm saying I think you're I adore it I

think you will do in the days of Hedda

Hopper at the premiere of something you

know the studios would hire

photographers but it was faithfully

waiting may I take a picture it was all

agreed upon client walking room say hey

how'd you get all these photographers

here you know nobody bought that anybody

I didn't force your friends you didn't

force my face now it's become something

totally different someone jumping over

your wall okay your wall you know how is

that not a clear line you can't do that

right example mark and I getting married

we took every precaution in every

measure so we can have a private moment

we decided to do it in the backyard

invite 20 people they thought they were

coming to a barbecue so some of them are

not even that dressed out in shorts

issue mark built the runway barely wet

hammer and nails to get a contract trust

anybody we had to do it ourselves was

just fine it was actually a beautiful

experience in its own way but even with

that they found a way helicopter comes

over right as I'm walking down the aisle

we couldn't hear each other making the

bow say yes because they do you did

right we don't take technically you can

get out of it I never but that place

wasn't even sacred like we should in our

home at least be sacred

here at Getty Images we're selling an

image every single second and within the

news or editorial area about 40% of all

those images are entertainment images I

get the same names thrown at me oh do

you work with any words do you work

Patrick Demarchelier but the most

published photographers in the world are

the entertainment photographers a lot of

people may not have heard of them

but these folks are being published in

the thousands and thousands every week

photographers the difference in

photographers well I guess there's three

kinds we got the guys that you regularly

see in a scene like Kevin and guys from

wire image but you see him at all the

show he kind of become friends and you

know they're not looking for a bad shot

you know they're looking for something

interesting cool no problem

then he got the stalker Otzi's you know

go through anything to get a shot and

sit there like you're eating lunch with

a bag with a big camera in it and flip

it out it on you like a moment's notice

and then some of the worst offenders are

just the creepos with the cell phones

they're acting like they're looking for

a number you know I'm buying a bulk of

burger which I don't want anybody to

know about you know I mean I eat steaks

and medium badass you know I'm thinking

in the bulk of burger section I go Huck

you know something like that no those

people suck people with mobile phones

I'm fine okay picture them you know you

can't go anywhere without being

photographed basically now you have to

be very care of it and you have to

behave accordingly

now the regular citizens have become

paparazzi's you're not save anywhere

anyone can sell you anyone can sell a

piece of you the kind of fascination

that we have with celebrities changed

over time we used to go and see movies

in these amazing movie houses many of

which were not only built to look like

palaces record palaces and we would sit

in the dark and we would watch these

huge larger-than-life people idols that

were literally like deities the first

people who appeared in movies their

names weren't used the audience had to

make up their own names for these people

Mary Pickford for instance became known

as the girl with the curls because as

the studios didn't promote them they

knew if they promoted them that they

would have to pay them more Pickford

really changed that personally she and

her mother invented stardom and the

percentage deal the movie makes so much

money I make so much money

unheard of unsinkable and she married

Douglas Fairbanks who on the male side

did the same thing back when Hollywood

was in its golden age it was glamorous

and beautiful and mysterious and you

wondered how they live and if they did a

spread in somebody's house was just so

special and now it's we're so exposed

there's no mystery today celebrity is an

industry and in every industry you have

raw material and the raw material in the

celebrity industry is an actual body an

actual flesh-and-blood person who has

feelings has emotions as a family that

raw material is shaped you have to look

a certain way so they have a stylist and

a publicist and a manager and an agent

that helped form the raw material into

the finished product

second of all if you have authorized

Felicity things that was celebrity and

his or her publicist have decided will

become part of this person's image

interviews magazine covers the actual

films the products in which the star

appears and then you have unauthorized

publicity such as paparazzi photography

and gossip unsanctioned but at the same

time it still contributes to the

formation of image next media takes this

image and gives it to the consumer as

far as outlets there's print there's

television and there's online so some of

the authorized outlets would be people

Entertainment Tonight

extra Access Hollywood and then it

starts website or a source fanclub

unauthorized and print we have in touch

and life in style there's gossip blogs

like TMZ Perez Hilton delisted and

Gawker so bottom line all these

different players they're all

interconnected and symbiotic on one

another

watch the cars behind you guys have a

great day and she sells Oh usually they

run white to 5,500 truthfully usually

they're $5,250 it's as much as 250,000

you may get nothing today but you may

come today or tomorrow and make more in

one day than most making a year the

problem is it has to be the most

audacious the most outrageous the most

intrusive behavior may get the most

saleable shot the agencies are trying to

get that to sell them to magazines or

video outlets that will pay money for it

and the public buys the magazines or

watches the show so it's that whole

cycle

what a game is to provoke a reaction

best thing that happened is somebody

think you swing at them you know or

start pushing with screaming that's a

better shot it's more money they usually

bring up thanks girlfriend's ex-wife's

they say stuff not Pam or it's not too

much they can really say to get my goat

it's more invading your space getting in

your face you're like wait a minute I

don't know you do you gonna come at me

and try to get a reaction

there's my reaction we're all good I've

given them one or two of those in my

time but now you just have to know that

that's the photograph that they want and

it's you know you just have to not give

it to them Oh worse this or that and if

they do provoke you they have one and

you have lost me on the other hand yeah

mark doesn't have as much of a tolerance

for that stuff so we try not to put them

in those situations they kind of want

Lindsay Lohan to have meltdown in public

so they've got their photograph this

week in a celebrity spotlight we view

Lohan is Yael Balan I mean oh no half

the time she gives them the thing they

want and it's very sad because it's like

this guy was a good actress she had

talent she made records you know and now

it's kind of she's become their toy and

it's frightening

there is a uniquely American sport

called grandest side we build someone up

to spectacular heights in order to tear

them down it's a vicious cycle they you

build up you break it down next to this

person coming back again let's break

them down again they don't need to sit

back and watch I know it's only a couple

days in but they say it's gonna go

number one

that moment of her just looking in the

camera shaving her head was such an

powerful moment it was like fuck you guy

there was something about it but that

was just fuck you you know I mean she

had enough she broke in front of us all

of our eyes and then they that people

captured that but it was really sad to

me people used to be able to develop

kind of quietly and if they made

mistakes the whole world didn't know

about them Nicky we don't know how lucky

we are that snot the way it is anymore

now really horrible behavior and people

who are definitely in trouble and need

help are often just seen as people who

are supposed to entertain you

our celebrity images are supposed to be

seamless but when those cracks open I

mean it's kind of dirty but it's also

fascinating I don't want a dragon skull

miss Charlie Sheen but then you know if

the Crocs open too wide there's nothing

left you borrow my marine for five

seconds and just be like dude handling

the treatment he's an absolute madness

okay you know you shouldn't look but

you're just curious

come on mr. P I'm Darrin lions mr.

pepper RT and this is my mini-me mr. P

I've started as a news photographer on a

local paper but my passion was certainly

gita' graffiti a lot of the world

looking from the outside in live really

this interesting lives and I think that

is what's captured the culture of

celebrity today I'm a true believer in

the image you know I've been to Bosnia

on the front line getting shot out in

Full Metal Jacket

I've won Press photographer for the year

in the United Kingdom two years in a row

I won all the awards you could imagine

being a photographer the fact that

matter is you know awards don't pay the

mortgage I sought celebrity as being the

huge moment of the future we've missed

the paparazzi calm I embraced it and i'm

still embracing it celebrity isn't going

to go away it's been around since time

began

he don't Julius Caesar was famous and

Napoleon was famous but they were famous

in different ways Yuki's the mass media

it had taken Napoleon a lifetime to

become famous it took Charlie Chaplin a

month one day he was nobody and months

later he was known in the deepest

jungles of Africa

he couldn't appear in public without a

mob coming around him and he had to

invent strategies to deal with that

celebrity today means anyone who's

famous now you can be famous young guy

who was in a balloon and floated across

the country is it that a star is Jeffrey

Dahmer a star historically the American

Dream meant that anyone could come to

America and through hard work could own

a home and provide for their family

now if the American Dream is really

transformed into anyone can become a

celebrity say something with that great

radio voice when you're listening to

nothing but the best of oldies the way

that people talk about YouTube is that

anyone who puts a video on YouTube can

become famous

everyone can deny Justin Bieber a

contract but then because enough people

are interested in him he can still

become famous it's this idea that if you

have talent and if you make that tell

invisible and you can be voted in our

democratic society to be a star I think

a recent survey of British children

under 15 said they were they want to be

a doctor or a nurse or an architect or a

photographer no they just wanted to be

either rich or famous

because we're not jobs and we don't care

what people think about it I think

that's why everybody loves us in general

a reality celebrity is like a one you

celebrity you pay a little for them but

then you can exploit them until they

disintegrate there are people out there

now there are completely celebrities and

absolutely famous who don't work who

don't even wore them doesn't sell

they have no but there's so scary

I hate reality television I think it's

the lowest common denominator it's mind

rot to me it numbs my brain and the

people being called celebrities and have

their own reality shows I'll kill them

tell me you won't regret it I think what

people misunderstand is that we're in

the entertainment industry we're not

these serious people and everyone's just

gotten so used to all these actors

taking themselves so seriously when it's

really just a joke industry is mostly

fun there's nothing wrong with the Kevin

Garnett all of those people if that's

how they choose to make a living more

power to them it's not my my my line of

work is is different I wanted to

entertain people reality TV is in a way

the new vaudeville there's nothing real

about reality TV people are led to

believe that it's real and it's it's the

big lie there's nothing real about it

I'll tell you the first time it bothered

me I walked out of my house I wanted to

go and get my mother-in-law a birthday

present and I walked out and for the

first time ever there were all these

photographers outside and I my first

instinct curiously enough because we're

kind of all animals basically it was to

run but then I got scared to run because

I was pregnant and I didn't trust the

streets of New York to like be my ally

and I started crying and I said to the

photographer's please don't chase me I'm

pregnant

please don't chase me and they kept

following me and I went into a building

I saw a doorman and a building and I

said to him he said okay can can I come

in your building and he took me down to

the garage and there was a couple and

they were on a motorcycle and they saw

me crying and she and I traded clothing

everything from head to toe and I got on

the back of her her boyfriend's

motorcycle and she walked out of my

clothes and he took me elsewhere and

dropped me off but it's just gotten

exponentially worse ever since then

out of my way that's all waiting for

somewhere

the Bob brought to you life is like the

lottery you might want to take a day off

but that might be the day when something

major happens then put your powers away

I start off very early in the morning

and I go late at night and I try to do

it six days a week if not seven days a

week it would be that a celebrity

reindeer come on bring him in free of

embryo man I love what I do because I

get to drive up and down the streets of

my favorite city in the world miss

Angeles California interrupts with

celebrities tourists I can take a day

off I want I'm my own boss I've no

answer to

you know made you better Bellucci so no

not aroma multi amoeba universal mr.

photographer chinko dr. BM o KR don't go

see Tamara photography the South though

they would work together in teams of two

one of the photographer's would

aggravate the celebrity that they were

shooting start some kind of

confrontation so that the other one

could take the photo came under

paparazzi you know mean been Dada you

can go CDs and other

to Tennessee she's India ramekin Fellini

much anniversary on Isabella goes away a

de facto ology not even send at the

brain very good in everything they are

denoted wonderful support la dolce vita

inlay product Lisa photographer female

for that you know me parapodia come on

Roberto

Antonio Franco like yo Chris oh no me

paparazzi the advent of the paparazzi

took on a whole different nastiness

paparazzi were I'll get you at any cost

and I'll get it if it means killing you

and the competition among them was so

fierce

Ron Coelho was probably the first

well-known paparazzi who everyday woke

up and decided to focus his lens on

Jackie Kennedy no matter what she was

doing or where she was

hey you just been good to run because he

got a lot of very bad press he was seen

to be you know parasite his photography

is now being collected by serious

photography collectors but you know when

Rob was working it was completely

different from the way it is now getting

a picture taken

went from something where you felt that

somebody was honoring you a part of you

your work your beauty your youth

something to a hunt

and most of the time instead of

celebrating something about you a lot of

the times trying to find something wrong

with you a bad shot of Lindsey doe Anna

I must to get a shot she's doing good

I'm taking a good shot if she's doing

bad well in her eyes I'm taking a bad

shot to meet still the shot

you're not the Brutus people I've ever

met thank you no wonder people come up

you know they use this as it goes

Oh paparazzi bad well you take the

picture and they wrote about it but you

shouldn't take the picture well okay but

they still sold magazines and you still

read it yeah I got a question do you

think the people hate more than fucking

important for the paparazzi I think it's

really easy to blame the paparazzi

because their actual bodies right there

that we can pinpoint eyes the cause

there are photos of the paparazzi

getting in the celebrities faces whereas

the writers and editors completely

unseen you certainly don't want to blame

ourselves

I think the paparazzi has a place 40% of

many of the magazines have paparazzi

photos they're an important part of the

industry I'm in a doctor's office and

they're all there and there's no men

around me that's the one I'll go for a

first either ok or us before Sports

Illustrated there's a controversy like

an argument between people and I know

it's gonna be like ongoing that's a good

gossip basically

confidential those behind the headlines

for its stories stories early feel I

feel the public should know Robert

Harrison published kind of topics in

magazines out of his apartment in the

1940s and then he started confidential

in the 1950s

confidential basically made what had to

that point than unspeakable speakable so

women's sexuality having relationships

between races even homosexuality

confidential was operating entirely

outside of the system and had no qualms

about reporting on these sorts of things

some of the stories were outrageous I

you know I boiled my baby in the oven

this morning and things like that I mean

terrible things and there were people

who believed it and all damage control

was just ignored just it'll go away and

most of the time it did the outlaw

magazines took advantage of the fact

that they were secrets that they could

basically use as blackmail the classic

story of course was the story about rock

Hudson's homosexuality which

confidential had absolute evidence of

and they said give us an exclusive story

and we won't print it so the studio took

a much lesser actor who was also gay and

they sacrificed him pretty sleazy stuff

but it was business confidential

became extremely popular in a very short

amount of time I mean upwards of five

million copies a month out of sight but

all of these stars including Maureen

O'Hara and Liberace and Dorothy

Dandridge filed suit against

confidential for the various things that

were said about them Robert Harrison

agreed to basically stop covering the

Stars and then the stars in the studios

would stop suing him so he sold it off I

think it's a part of Americana I think

it's gonna live long after I'm gone

they're so funny I mean you know you're

never gonna get the ball looking at ya

looking for all those sort of fun little

behind-the-scenes kind of images that

are gonna make a reader feel like that

they were really there someone's

stepping on someone's trained someone

greeting someone saying hi

nicole kidman Keith Urban going out on

their date night things like that from

this we pick a few hundred pictures and

I would say in terms of our space in the

magazine we have room for six

consecutive pages of award show coverage

now something really juicy happens at

the show never know I could get a cover

story out of it or it could go to the

hot stuff section and be a gossip item

Mila Kunis looked amazing so he might

write a full-length dress shot of her in

which case we can't necessarily run

another picture of her inside with

Natalie Portman even though it's really

cute so it's really just a giant puzzle

it was launched in the 1970s to compete

with people who a magazine was first

published in 1974 one of the first

issues had Gerald Ford not like in his

suit in the White House he's in a pool

and his shirt is off so it's really

trying to give this intimate look into

these different personalities lives it

was a tremendous success immediately

last week it was actually published by

the New York Times company originally

and eventually sold it to young Grenier

the founders are rolling stone it has

been a monthly a bi-weekly and weekly

they have changed its format its tone

who they're covering he tried everything

and none of it worked but seems like

people was invincible

around 2002 Bonnie fuller took over Us

Weekly and she changed the face of

celebrity reporting a lot of the

magazines would feature these glamorous

shots of celebrities and at the time

Us Weekly wasn't doing that well and so

the only photos that Us Weekly could

afford were those shots that magazines

wouldn't print I was interested in

celebrities being glamorous but then I

also wanted to see the human side of

them too and so we created a section

called stars are just like us lovey was

picking out their garbage picking up

their kids it was a home run for us I

guess I was a pioneer because it was the

first time if that paparazzi photos had

been presented that way she definitely

has the good hair and then the pretty

and hello know who it is

and you know kind of become the expert

and the insider so we want to always

give that that's one of the reasons why

they come here to Us Weekly the way that

we lay it out it always does feel like

you were like a member of the party

there and they loved it

you know if this thing is elite possible

didn't I'll take it it's not it's to

keep in a hole is that nowhere well then

I'm using it probably there I'm against

humanity not sore throat right anyways

when Bonnie and I work together as

editors at Us Weekly I broke the story

of that Britney Spears and Justin

Timberlake had broken up and then the

next week we had a follow up to that

story and we created these soap operas

there was a time when I was on the

tabloids every week for maybe two years

straight to everything in a soap opera

if you're in a relationship and you're

in the tabloids all the time it's like

well maybe that part was true maybe it

wasn't then all of a sudden you're a

victim too believing what they're saying

and what they're writing gossip is

itself just as much of a product as a

movie is actual people's lives are

turned into a story for us to consume

for example with a love triangle pose

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and

Jennifer Aniston and also with Liz

Taylor and Eddie Fisher and Debbie

Reynolds in 1958 each of the people in

both of these situations was given a

role to play the temptress the innocent

man in the middle and then the victim

and once Jennifer Aniston was made the

victim it's very difficult for her to

become something else which is the

reason why they're still magazine covers

now years later saying Jennifer Aniston

can't find love Jennifer Aniston can't

get over him because that is still her

role as victim when really she's of

course found happiness and she's dated

other people and whatever but that has

been the role in which she has been

slotted in the early days of Us Weekly

becoming successful People magazine

began to feature more of these breakups

and who's dating whom on us wanted to

scoop people at whatever cost so that

they could claim the exclusive and thus

attract bigger newsstand sales there was

this great photo of Jennifer Lopez

reading Us Weekly and we wanted that

shot but People magazine outbid us all

day I kept going up and up and up and up

and people never published those photos

but they paid tens of thousands of

dollars just so that we couldn't publish

her what happened is that series of

bidding wars for photos under bun fuller

and Janice men after her there really

escalated the photo price for all photos

even small photos inside the magazine

they still wanted to be the only ones

who hadn't it Bonnie fuller flipped the

demand so instead of just tracking the

moments when a star was either doing

something scandalous or doing something

that was absolutely glamorous really on

the paparazzi now needed photos of the

stars doing everything in between which

meant you know near 24 hours

surveillance

once you spot a car you look at the last

three numbers of the license plate to

match with the car Nicky Hilton black

Range Rover oh six nine paparazzi know

all the license-plate numbers they know

all the tailplane numbers of their

planes find out and they call me or take

me back they pay people off valet

Parkers the doorman at hot restaurants

and clubs they have a network of

informants

Laporte preventability

pull out of that website you know you

see one years to get a deal with one guy

in you hope and pray it doesn't start

calling all their friends you know

within 15 minutes there are five other

people through there

let the two guys get the shot and be

done with it but why there has to be 50

people getting the same shot if I saw

someone I want to photograph walk out of

the house I sure as hell wouldn't call

my buddies why not enjoy the entire

piece of steak

why I don't get the whole call friends

and relatives and

it's literally being pursued like prey

like an animal there's no kind of

structure there's no type of regulations

it's just just get that bitch get that

shot I don't care what it takes

they don't care about breaking the law

they'll climb a wall take pictures over

the gate they've done it at my office in

my backyard they do it the helicopter

you're in your backyard and the

helicopters coming that low and you

running in and it's like a stupid game

of have ice tried to reason oh my god

have I tried to reason I have tried to

reason with them I have had talks about

come on new there's better things that

you can do you could you can have you

can achieve your dream I mean it's

stupid it's just gotten out of control

there's certain instances where the

paparazzi's are gonna just over excite

themselves cameras get broken

couldn't get her depression they hit the

elbows but this is what it's all about

get that shot no matter what

I had a very public relationship that

fell apart and I was diagnosed with

breast cancer and I had never been an

a-list celebrity for I pretty much was

just photographed on red carpets and

maybe the occasional lunch at the ivy

aware but once that happened once I was

diagnosed and I was going through such

unhappiness in such real dark chaos in

my life I couldn't leave my house and it

really made me I guess start to dissect

what it is that would make that's such

an interesting thing to photograph and

is that what sells magazines is seeing

somebody at their lowest a word that has

become absolutely meaningless today is

unspeakable there's nothing that

unspeakable anymore you know starters

cellulite they pump gas too they are

still love triangles it's degrading to

women especially the way they showed you

to show women celebrities it's just like

I was in Hawaii I wasn't and you know I

have this horrible bikini shot that a

paparazzi got and crap light in a weird

angle and it just it look it's terrible

and and and it was everywhere and they

did everything to just make me look like

I was just this peach droid with

cellulite fine it was just so bad and I

was like oh my god do I look like this I

have a little girl I don't read this in

front of her I don't really read any of

my magazines and find my daughter

because I'm I don't want her to get that

bad body image at such a young age and

it happens really young like I've had

little girls as a teacher so I mean have

fed at four years old where are you

getting this from I think the magazines

and the media are the catechol that's

the the breeding ground for them whether

it be people us InStyle glamour both

they all portray women as this

untouchable

goal

you can create the illusion that someone

is a normal ordinary person in other

words you don't Crawford vacuums their

own house or she has the perfect family

or you can create the illusion that

their aloof aristocratic goddesses but

control was the name of the game and the

whole apparatus grew up around that need

the studio system determined which

movies the stars would appear in it also

determined where they would live what

cars they would drive and in certain

cases who they would marry it also

provided them with protection all of the

images came through the studio's

publicity Department so if you were

running a fan magazine and you ran a

photograph which was unflattering that

was it you didn't get another photograph

not only at that star but of all of the

other stars that were working for that

particular studio if one of their stars

was involved in a scandal the studio

would wash right in and do damage

control it could be hushed up so the

control that that time was firmly

meeting she's not the case anymore the

mainstream media can say we won't report

about X Y or Z and it's still going to

be widely known because so many are

reporting it on the Internet so the kind

of control that celebrities and their

managers and their Studios used to have

over their images simply does not exist

anymore

TMZ is not about getting the next Tom

Cruise interview it's just not and so I

don't think there's as much leverage

Harvey Levin

got his start as a lawyer and

correspondent covering the Rhoda Simpson

trial in 1990s police are banking on

blood in the Ford Bronco to started TMZ

in 2004 and what TMZ is doing is taking

the tactics to form the colors that the

general ethos of confidential and just

transferring it to new medium a little

over half past the hour now here's a

look at the stories that you may have

missed Lindsay Lohan Cable News push the

network news to be faster and more

immediate

and now the network news and cable news

are in many ways responding to what

happens on the Internet media habits

have totally changed ways of getting

information people go online they don't

wait for weekly don't wait for a monthly

magazine anymore when some news breaks

they want to know now what's going on

whenever something happens it doesn't be

very like his birthday was yesterday

Google sent my phone right pass and got

new haircut sent to my phone TMZ just

fasting I'm obsessed with TMZ calm in

2006 TMZ broke the story of Mel Gibson's

arrest which drove a tremendous amount

of traffic to the site since then TMZ

has grown into an incredibly well-read

site

he then went on to use the base product

this raw footage from the website and

then came up with a way that he could

repackage it on television

finally Snooki is good Nicole you are

amazing in WrestleMania if you asked

around and you say why do you come to

TMZ increasingly which you're gonna hear

people say is they seem to get the

stories first when I was running MSNBC

we would do our best to make sure source

was credible but these news operations

simply don't have the time or the

ability to fact-check some of what

they're reporting and it's very good

that you brought that out I never said

that in that context he never talked to

those people and I never talked to those

people either they make up things yeah

they do it's very tough unfortunately

for a celebrity to sue a publication you

have to prove malice you have to prove

negligence also a lot of celebrities

don't want to draw attention to a story

that is completely wrong or defamatory

or give publicity to some blogger who's

working out of his garage if you sue

that person suddenly you make their site

relevant I have a big famous lawsuit

against the Sun newspaper in Britain a

long time ago in the eighties which

wrote me crazy went on for a year and a

half that said that I slept with

underage Rent Boys gave them drugs

urinated on them I mean it made my life

hell but I got a front-page apology

which was the most important thing for

me we were wrong we're sorry now people

can just make up what they want on the

internet and as soon as I put it on the

internet it goes worldwide so you're

forever denying things nobody's gonna

care about the story tomorrow and they

convinced you to just deal with it when

don't a sudden you're hearing rumors

that are not true on a CNN crawl that's

sort of go this is CNN beautiful I don't

take it personally at this point but if

there was something about the outlet of

CNN that felt like that's a prestigious

you know channel if you respond to

certain things you're right in the

sandbox with them if you don't respond

the story now grows because of the viral

world and because of 24-hour news cycle

so we're constantly trying to figure out

how to put out a fire

perfect example is Tiger Woods he didn't

say anything he issued a statement that

he had quote transgressions and then he

disappeared for months women came out of

the woodwork and it ended up being a

giant scandal because he let it blow up

I think of this as a system anything

that happens here also you know has a

chain reaction throughout the rest of

the industry like Tiger Woods who we

were being served a very tightly

controlled image as soon as the scandal

broke you know a watch company or Nike

doesn't want their name affiliated with

this sort of behavior this morning TMZ

reports KMZ is saying

TMZ has learned until very recently

major news organizations wouldn't have

cited it a TMZ as a source and now they

do there's something beyond just

reporting who's making out with whom

therein lies the love-hate relationship

that we have with someone like lemon

he's illuminating things that we maybe

don't want to know about that we also

feel we should know about but then on

the flip side there's a lot of sagging

flesh and giving the camera the finger

so a blog will have unauthorized content

that may or may not be false maybe in a

post right above or below journalistic

content its dictating that we learn how

to do our homework not believe

everything we were reading in blogs

because everybody has an angle we're at

a really dangerous spot as far as our

inability to discern what is fact and

what is fiction

believe what you read yeah no trace but

believe what you read

got this one yeah that is shot yeah yeah

but it's probably even true and we'll

read it still read it yeah you can't

beat the truth of a camera and this is

what the celebrities are paranoid about

the camera doesn't lie it doesn't stop

the Botox it doesn't stop the surgery

and it doesn't stop you're having sex

with a co-star this is real no one can

lie about this picture it's there and

that's one of the great historical

significance --is that photography and

the media bring today

the problem is with the celebrities it's

instantaneous they have no control even

when we're talking about authorized

photos there's still a lot the

celebrities can control

this is pretty much how we receive

things out here pretty much their entire

body gets retouched well you can kind of

see here or it asks to cut in we cut in

we have to make sure that's all the red

carpets match and it doesn't so we're

gonna have to fix that

some other time the people in the

background that you see are not really

there or duplicated and get rid of

stains on her dress and try to get rid

of the wrinkles paparazzi shots need a

lot more TLC than a better photo that we

get from a you know a great photographer

that's definitely a lot less work and

let's help her a little bit because she

looks a little tired sometimes we get

photos that are you know green yeah but

we can fix that

the idea that a picture never lies is

simply not true

a picture captures somebody at a

particular moment in time celebrity can

tell a joke and pull a face or something

and then when that person's in trouble

that image will appear and it'll look

like it was shot at the same time in

reaction to something that they've done

so and images don't always tell the

truth it's the context the context is

very important so I think people need to

be more discerning when they're looking

at images we need Zellweger is probably

one of the toughest shots to get because

she doesn't really come out and be seen

as often as we'd like her to be seen

exhilirating mean Joey I'm making her

smile and laugh and uh making her feel

good you know their life is about you

know stay in the public eye because you

forgotten then my camera goes down and

then the world doesn't know where you

didn't want to care about moving all

morning you'll be gone in a flash it's

called Hollywood who makes them famous

well actually I do

they reliant on the paparazzi to

photograph them to make the money that's

delusional

that is absolutely delusional

paparazzi's do not keep your career

alive you know we're not saying don't

take our pictures we understand there's

a market here but a photograph of you in

your back you know backyard sunbathing

topless cuz you can and you should be

able to that's a violation and the

photograph it's in a magazine there's an

agreement that this is my job and I'm to

be photographed one is like having

someone rob your house and go into your

panty drawer and the other is something

artistic and beautiful and both are in

agreement that this is going to take

place there's a difference vitaminwater

zero hot line this is Ellen how can I

help you as long as you're famous

you've become an enormous commodity in

this country my guest tonight is

somebody's been the scent of a huge

scandal rocking American and news is a

business newspaper entities need to sell

papers websites want traffic television

networks want ratings Lindsay Lohan

increasingly the way to get that is to

have an entertainment component

record-setting weekend the tune of 30

million more than a hundred and fifty

five million dollars this opening

weekend every Sunday night what's the

first item you see on the news how much

money a movie made over the weekend

avatar is the number one spot I mean

avatar hit a billion and it's bigger

than the security breach at the airport

it's bigger news why Nick Paton Walsh

donning his life from Kabul Afghanistan

many thanks she made sure he got the

message wait until you hear about

Charlie Sheen's the concept of hard news

has really changed Charlie Sheen

insisted a lot of what used to be

considered tabloid is now mainstream

frankly they stopped telling important

news about the world and they just tell

gossip

sometimes you can only watch so many

things there's somebody that stabbed

like all day long and you know me like

there's a flood here or there's an

earthquake there like who doesn't like a

good Hollywood escape from time to time

there's an argument that celebrities act

as infotainment Parkinson's Awareness

Month

Michael Joffe are actually often helping

issues have real concerned getting into

the public domain

so for instance if tragically a

celebrity is ill with breast cancer or

something like that it does raise

awareness speak to the importance of

screening but there's concern on the

other hand but focusing so much on the

my news shy of how famous people live

their lives is just diverting attention

from issues which the press should be

filling their pages with Sarah Palin

entertainment or journalism Sarah Palin

is a very good example of the way in

which celebrity culture has influenced

the politics I cross my fingers hoping

it wasn't a mistake I mean say what you

will about Sarah Palin she has been

brilliant and manipulating her image I

think there's real indecision over

whether or not Sarah Palin really wants

to be President or she just wants to be

a celebrity

I think it's unclear it certainly is the

question that's United Hollywood and

Washington you know democracy becomes

another reality show is Trump actually

serious about running for president

that's not good for anyone

if the mainstream media were to fold and

celebrity tabloids were the only people

out there publishing it would mean that

our entire system of democracy has

collapsed democracy relies on an

informed electorate to make educated

decisions at the ballot box you can only

do that if you have access to truthful

timely information the public has a lot

of responsibility here the paparazzi

doesn't get away with this in a vacuum

so I think citizens need to step up and

start valuing that information they're

getting from their local news gatherers

all right yeah I'm done with the Paris

Authority what do you have against the

Paris Hilton I have nothing against

Paris Hilton that was not the issue

she's very in whether or not it was

worthy as elite

I think at this point is getting to be

supply leading demand because I mean

look at how many magazines there are now

like do I really need that but picking

them up now walked in Airport and it'll

be three or four people buried in this

magazine and I'll walk through and no

one will notice me which is great but it

is it's there's some irony there and I

understand it cuz I can get sucked into

it I can spend twenty minutes on an

airplane and flip through that stuff and

I can be in that world reading about

who's dating who or looking at

somebody's cellulite on a beach or

whatever and it makes me feel awful

you know the celebrities are famous

people they know that they work hard I

think to become a celebrity in the first

place and then you got their picture all

over the magazine so I don't feel guilty

at all plus not buying the magazine's it

costs me a little bit of money to even

buy the magazine itself it comes with

your job you've asked for this life you

wanted to be in the limelight in the

spotlight so deal with it yeah you know

I kind of asked for this life and kind

of knew that this is part of it that

comes with it but I mean the same way

you know the magazines make money they

make money for me you know they get the

word out that I have a record out there

and put me in some light that hopefully

shines and people connect to make them

wanna hear my record there's a price to

fame now are you willing to pay it

yes that's part of your job is promoting

your work but not I don't think it's

your job when you're going to a yoga

class that's not your job

that's an invasion of privacy and they

need to stop look I have a great life I

wouldn't trade myself even with the

paparazzi following me but not because I

have a great life they should feel like

they own it we represent the Bombers

rights in for many many years and I got

into the habit of carrying a large black

umbrella whether the weather calls for

it or not and if I saw a photographer's

coming towards us I would open the

umbrella and like two fools we would

walk down the street with the umbrella

in front of me

so the photographers would not take a

picture she did not want her picture

taken on the other hand Frank Sinatra

who we represented controlled that part

of his celebrity but never appearing in

public Sinatra would walk down the

street if you had to go from here to

there we took a car do you remember when

we were like in the trunk of somebody's

car trying to get away in Gina's car who

is laying in the trunk I'm like what

women when did this happen

I wanted to go shopping you know I'm

like I'm in the trunk with my girlfriend

and I'm like this is your life what is

nothing you can do about it whatever I

was like I beg to differ I beg to differ

you feel out of control like you have no

control over this and then you realize I

have to actually changed my life

we've moved out of Miami we've taken

measures to just

you know sort of concentrated quality of

life there's a lot of places where you

can live whether or not paparazzi you

don't have to be in the public eye

there's ways to avoid the cameras and

then they'll say well she's isolated she

lives a rarefied life she doesn't know

she does have the human touch she's not

well I'm desperate to be like you and

you and you the problem always is that

certain celebrities invite in the

attention and so the response of the

media is well we're getting cold they

should have an agreement you know the

reality that whether it's the Paris

Hilton's or the girls that don't have an

issue with it

the Jersey Shore's all of those

television shows there should be an

agreement but that doesn't mean that

everybody else is a free-for-all a lot

of the time they're told where to be and

when it becomes kind of a game

tip you for don't give an information

out indirectly what the client won't

even know just to build more - there's

supposed to that's their job you know

Twitter has become another source

one time we had a source that was giving

us specific incredible information it

was almost if it was coming from

Angelina Jolie's mouth herself on when

Pete flew into Africa private little

resort we had three or four minutes to

get the picture that was bought in an

auction overnight by US magazine

unauthorized publicity definitely has a

role in maintaining the star's

visibility and I think that today

celebrities have learned to allow just

enough coverage so as to make it seem

like you are you know giving some of

yourself but at the same time

maintaining some ones of privacy

I mean someone like Brad and Angelina

have a really meticulously maintained

star image but they also allow slight

moments of authenticity that make them

interesting Angelina Jolie knows exactly

the moment that you need to have this

particular part of her persona exposed

to the world this particular part of her

life exposed to the world and she's

brilliant at it you have to constantly

be able to reinvent yourself and the

ones who stay before us really are the

ones who one way or another managed to

do something that keeps us interested in

fascinated that to me

smells celebrity double standards I

don't agree with it I think it's

completely not only wrong like Angelina

Abed Pizza under my terms I'll put my

children on the front of a magazine for

15 million bucks but when you're

photographing me in a public place oh

that's not on I don't understand that

that was a very interesting case we

worked with them for free they wanted

all the money to go to charities that

worked perfectly the value of an

exclusive image is very high because

that baby or that wedding hasn't been

photographed before so if we can work

with the celebrities and get those

pictures out first it is a massive

disincentive to the paparazzi to chase

after them because they're not going to

get a lot of money for the third picture

of the baby when the first pictures have

been published everywhere

publicity you know it's a game played

for the benefit of everyone involved up

to a certain point and that certain

point is where it gets dangerous

drive out the garage a couple yards down

the street 1 2 3 4 cars they've all be

smokin cigarettes waiting for you to

come out jump in their cars and then

you're off the main car runs a yellow

light everybody behind that person with

ten cars running lights until it turns

green again then you find yourself

driving kind of like crazy just to get

away from them

one in the front one in the back one on

the side you feel like a trapped rat

it's a matter of playing chicken either

you're gonna stop or you're gonna crash

into the car

Nicole Richie's Gina was chased by

paparazzi and got in a car accident

thank God her children are in the car

it can get really dangerous look what

happened to Diana reports say a vehicle

carrying the princess and her entourage

was being chased by photographers

several hours after the accident

French emergency services were still at

the scene cutting people from the

wreckage this is not a time for

recriminations but for sadness however I

would say that I always believed the

press would kill her in the end but not

even I could imagine if there takes such

a direct hand and had that seems to be

the case it would appear that every

proprietor and editor of every

publication that has paid for intrusive

and exploited photographs of her

encouraging greedy and ruthless

individuals to risk everything in

pursuit of Diana's image has blood on

his hands today well if the publishers

had blood on their hands today so do the

readers of those magazines after the

whole shock of her death people started

putting flowers outside Buckingham

Palace and several legitimate news

photographers were assaulted because

they were taking photographs of people

putting the flowers down the people who

assaulted them were the same people who

had bought the magazines that made her

image for valuable commodity

photographers would not have chased her

if they couldn't have got good money for

those photographs and it was the people

who were buying the magazines that was

ultimately supplying that money when

Princess Diana died it was a sense of

wow this is gonna change everything what

was sort of the immediate impact in

England

I think media interest in Princess Diana

and specifically her death led to a

change of culture the commercial demands

for those kind of photos fell but

unfortunately in the last few years as

for younger Royals sources joined the

family the media interest in them and

the intrusion is escalating again

only maybe we party on Monday iconic

shops where the world was waiting for

what I love about teaching history is to

say well this isn't the first time this

has happened

you can go back then show how it all

happened before Connie rich abundance of

antenna in Instagram Oh check the boon

to Sochi before it Estrada which is a

more firm article about sushi grade

salmon delirium are you daughter Sheila

$40 machina boy no avail photography I

presume on dopa if I'd the the Diana

train perimeter substantial Rd great

monuments of paparazzi

Ross was pretty stubborn

I am a photojournalist it's an art you

know they're not journalists paparazzi

are people with a camera anyone can get

a camera you can go to the drugstore and

buy a disposable camera now you're

taking pictures all of a sudden that's

journalism no way are they a journalist

if they're allowed to do it if they're

allowed to chase you if they're allowed

if they're allowed to invade your

privacy and they know they're gonna make

money off of it they're not gonna stop I

just feel a photographer take a decent

photograph gonna learn your trade make

some beautiful photographs like you know

Irving Penn or some other now what you

do is just it's just crap it's crap it

must be frustrating it must be

frustrating what I think might be even

more frustrating is to never see a

photographer again

paparazzi are doing journalism they are

gathering information they are telling a

story of some sort and disseminating it

to an audience

the First Amendment protects artists in

their ability to be creative and

sometimes risque and it also protects

the paparazzi but it doesn't necessarily

mean that it protects against each and

every action there definitely are limits

to free speech you don't get to publish

false things about somebody you don't

get to publish obscenity child

pornography you do not get to invade

someone's privacy by shooting with the

long telephoto lens into somebody's

bedroom the Supreme Court has said you

don't get to do those things you tell me

this kind of behavior is covered by what

journalism should be covered ollie

that's just bull

these people are behaving terribly it's

beyond rude and crude and unacceptable

but it's very hard to legislate good

behavior I'm not somebody for more laws

and more laws and more laws to say who

can shoot a picture and who can't and

where they can put in what they can do I

mean that's part of the beauty of our

society is the freedoms but there's got

to be something that we can stand up

morally as a culture and say hey that's

not cool taking picture that kid over

there cut it up

I love to walk my son to school because

it's the time of day that he's very open

the whole world is interesting to him

and to have long lenses aimed at you

purposefully getting in your never mind

your physical path but your emotional

path it's actually a scary feeling like

having sharpshooters aimed at you the

more intimate shots are the ones that

people criticize or why don't you leave

them alone and but there is a demand for

it we just shoot and submit them into

the library it's up to the agencies the

publication the TV networks the websites

and blogs wherever you read it or saw it

ask to them why do they publish it cute

kids are popular and celebrities have a

lot of cute kids a lot of women love to

look at you babies

now they're having covers of these

magazines it's like who's the cutest

Hollywood baby they haven't decided to

become a famous person so you can't you

can't do that to them there are so many

outlets now to sell pictures of

celebrity kids and there's so much money

to be made and it it's you can't even

argue with somebody about the ethics of

it you know I can't explain to somebody

I'm a high profile person but my son

isn't and just because he's with me it's

not like a handbag you know he's a

person and it's worrisome yeah it's

really worrisome how's it going Britney

whoever flashed these lights my kid

again the thought is devastating to me

it's frightening it's terribly

frightening to me um well really just

may be really upset to think about that

right I mean have someone following your

children is it's entering a place that

just no one should be leave children out

of it they didn't ask to be famous and

they have their rights too you know the

kids ought to be doing the suing and

that might be way legally to get some

traction on this

there are very different laws of privacy

by the English courts than the American

courts JKRowling port proceedings on

behalf of her very young son and it was

held that her son had a reasonable

expectation of privacy that he wouldn't

be followed around by photographers on

the street in the same way that any

ordinary child wouldn't be photographed

by the paparazzi there was a landmark

case because it established that the

children of famous people should be

treated in the same way as the children

of Ottoman parents a three-year-old

suing me in court I think is wrong I

mean I think it's absolutely ridiculous

the fact the matter is the JK rowling

case the only reason why I didn't lose

the case she was just given the right to

go to a trial but it was you know you

take of the world's richest woman and

you know was David Nicolai in France

they can't take a picture of my child

it's real it's night and day if you

compare Paris to the Sanjana Soni year

here in the United States probably any

judge under the law is going to say hey

no you don't get to follow them wherever

you know the very first case out there

Jacqueline Kennedy had a lawsuit against

wrangle Ella because she was concerned

for the safety of Caroline and young

John and she was able to get it declared

in New York that he had to stay a

certain distance away from those

children since then there's pretty much

been a truce around presidential

children but I think it's a little bit

different from what children of

celebrities experience

I remember it was night and it was

really cold so my thing that flash is

gonna fail that's like two months three

months old so I I told my nan take take

her and when they were taking my picture

they were all over they didn't care they

pushed the baby they put another sheet

nearly went to the floor and then of

course I charged after the photographer

I made sure the baby was okay and I was

just so angry my child could have had a

really serious accident I mean when

you're 2 or 3 on the street they think

he could have stepped on her that just

ought to be illegal it's a little

criminal there should be certain rules I

think I just feel like it's an invasion

of privacy and that these kids really

don't need that kind of attention at

this point in their lives even if their

mom or their dad is the famous one it

doesn't give them the paparazzi know

right that you want nothing to do with

it that's what if I was to say Evan

wants to see their kids don't do it hmm

it's kind of sad but it's like it makes

me more interested in what the kids are

doing because like that's the new

generation of celebrities coming up

the public has to take some degree of

responsibility and demand that these

sort of photographs not be published

that they put pressure economic

political social pressure on media

entities to say we don't want this we

won't have it

I took a total of 289

here at Us Weekly we get about 750,000

four million images a month the images

are coming at us from all different

angles and anybody whose eyes are

working will see about a thousand images

a day we should be asking ourselves

what's happening in this photo where was

taken when it was taken context is

everything

we are drenched and piled over with

media coverage I'm not gonna say it's

good for us or bad for us it is what it

is and we're going to have to make the

best of it I mean we watch tabloid

magazine television shows and we buy the

magazines and we're invested in reality

TV but we don't we don't have an

interconnectedness that is personal you

know that where we're sitting in front

of each other it's become the disease of

our culture celebrity

we are complicit in the driving of this

industry it's something that we should

think about we should analyze and what

we need to actually enact change is

action be aware

don't be naive about where these

pictures are coming from they sell it

because there's a market for it

consider where are you going to place

value we don't have to watch it never

have to read it

I think I'll deal with myself I'm trying

to be a little more conscious 17 have

fun and you know see what's going on in

the celebrity world she needs to be a

little more conscious about what's going

on in real world

somebody in the army reads a celebrity

doctors that save lives teachers cops

firefighters you know that's a celebrity

they want to really get down to it

all I wanted when I got into this

industry was make some money make a lot

of money make history

Bart wake up get out they're gonna get

she's

a member of the paparazzi for 150

dollars two people can hang out with

paparazzo Rick Mendoza he's hungry that

goes between

after she allegedly ran over his flat

like Jesus Christ could come back a few

thousand years to give us a Polish and

somebody to get a picture and put it on

TMZ the first comment would be Jesus is

a fucking douchebag you know by me now

is that against the law

they get your points for that you have I

took three or four miles specially to

take that I got to get like

my wife got path to JFK last night well

I see a blonde with a Louis Vuitton bags

they were right in her face she was

right in my face

I just walked away like nothing happened

you