Word: paparazzis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebrity-obsessed Paparazzo would be shocked at what some of his spiritual and nomenclatural descendants are doing nowadays. Updated with video cameras, they lie in wait, they stalk, they prod, they provoke--all in the hope of selling embarrassing footage to the tabloid-TV shows. They are not paparazzi but an aggressive new breed of videorazzi--or, as Los Angeles-based celebrity photographer Phil Ramey proudly dubs himself and his colleagues, "scummerazzi"--and they have been very active lately...
Baldwin was able to make light of his set-to on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week, but it does raise a serious question: Are the stars becoming more testy, or have the paparazzi become provocateurs? Says ER's George Clooney, one of their newest targets: "I'm perfectly willing to take my hits if I'm caught doing something stupid. The problem is that some of these guys aren't professional videographers; they're a bunch of kids with videocams who try and force you into a confrontation. They'll push and yell volatile things like...
...profession that is getting a black eye, in the view of some of the old-guard paparazzi. "I treat celebrities with respect, like I would like to be treated myself," says New York City photographer Gerardo Somoza. "Some of these photographers couldn't shoot their way out of a paper bag. They are carrying video cameras because they are a sure thing and shows like Hard Copy buy that stuff...
...this year, already knows enough about fashion to persuade friends NAOMI CAMPBELL, Kate Moss and Yasmin Le Bon to wear her clothes in a student show for parents and industry types. Her collection, described by one critic as "part Penny Lane, part Rita, Meter Maid," must have satisfied the paparazzi, who stomped out as soon as her segment was over...
...sung prayer, achieved the nearest thing to a record-industry miracle: it ascended to No. 3 on the pop music charts, lodging next to hits by Snoop Doggy Dogg and Nine Inch Nails. Soon the ancient walls of their remote monastery in northern Spain were besieged by tourists and paparazzi. Even more troubling, the monks came to feel that their record company had given them a raw deal...