Word: paparazzi
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...wife, the actress Lauren Holly. Their divorce, and her rumored affair with actor-director Edward Burns, made Carrey tabloid fodder--fishbowl living being another level on which he can relate to Truman Burbank. "I got in a fender bender on Sunset, and before I knew it there were paparazzi, because someone used his cell phone and made 300 bucks." He worries about media snoops planting recording devices in his hotel rooms--"So then you can't masturbate"--and worse. "Am I going to be combing my beard some day," he wonders, "and a little transmitter falls...
When Princess Diana died, remember how angry we were at the paparazzi -- those shutterbugs who make a living out of stalking, skulking and intruding? Seems like a long time ago. But America's concerned members of Congress aren't so mercurial. Elton Gallegly, a Republican out of California, has just introduced an anti-papparazzi bill that would cap the lenses of aggressive photographers by making it a crime to threaten or injure someone in the pursuit of pictures. The celebs couldn't be happier...
...strongly disagree with those who would argue that some sort of Faustian bargain has been struck whereby public figures are fair game, any time, any place," Michael J. Fox said at a congressional hearing Thursday. It's hard to sympathize with the singleminded paparazzi who, Fox testified, "chased me on foot and in my car, yelled obscene comments at my entire family, and literally staked out my home." But opponents say villains could use the restrictions to keep their crimes from photojournalists' cameras. Peace of mind for Hollywood celebrities or an unfettered press -- take your pick...
...mention that the press attention has become ever more threatening: Ginsburg told late Wednesday of a "Princess Di-style" incident on the way to Dulles airport, when a car containing himself and Lewinsky was buffeted on all sides by high-speed paparazzi...
...friend, he has turned into your D.C. dad. Your time in lockup has been relieved only by the week you spent with your real father in Los Angeles. Though you sided with Mom in the divorce, you and he are getting closer, thanks to this mess. But the California paparazzi are even worse than the ones in Washington. They crushed you and your dad in Santa Monica one night, and they ruined his lawn. Being famous, you've discovered, isn't all it's cracked...