Word: paparazzi
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...career of Brigitte Bardot, 28, began to look more and more like a Hall of Mirrors. Her new vehicle, Contempt, is all about a film troupe shooting a movie in Italy-and there she was in Rome, inspiring those shutterbug paparazzi to ruses yet untried. One even hired a helicopter to map aerial views of her epic epidermis; another, on location, succeeded only in scaring Bardot and the boy friend, French Actor Sami Frey, out of a bush. Well, the paparazzi might enjoy her, but many Italians decided that Brigitte was not their piece of pasta. Said Rome...
...There she plops into the none-too-reluctant arms of Marcello Mastroianni, takes up residence in his apartment, tries suicide in his bathroom, follows him to Spoleto. Director Malle's somewhat awkward purpose in getting her to Italy is to expose her to the flashbulb-popping paparazzi, who destroy her with cameras. The scenery is beautiful, but audiences unaccustomed to BB in a bitter-dregs role may yearn for the bubbly vintage Bardot that used to be one of France's most delicious exports...
...daughter nosedived into the water. An afternoon's outing to swim at a public beach drew an escort of a navy cutter and two police launches, which tried futilely to keep the omnipresent photographers at a distance. "We have never failed." trumpeted the leader of the long-lensed paparazzi pack; and Jackie graciously consented to pose, hoping they would take it a little easier in the future. As the picture-snappers closed in, Caroline snapped right back with a toy camera -from the shutter popped a juicy red tongue emitting an unmistakable Bronx cheer...
Photographers' stools clattered to the floor, women screamed, and Japan's pocket paparazzi crawled all over one another for a better shot. In the eye of the storm at Tokyo International Airport, the dapper figure stood unruffled, not even clenching a tiny fist. "Too much has been written about me being difficult and obstinate," crooned a newly mellow Frank Sinatra, 46, on the first stop in a two-month world tour to raise money for children's charities. "There's no new Sinatra. The difficulty has been on the other side." To prove it, Frankie actually...
Doors opened. The big apartment began filling like a leaky boat. Sophia pirouetted around wildly in a white nightie and green peignoir, kissing Ponti, kissing her mother, her sister, her director Vittorio De Sica,* even one or two paparazzi. Back in Hollywood, M.C. Bob Hope curled a lip slightly and said: "It must be wonderful to have talent enough to just send...