Word: paparazzis
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...might throw off the paparazzi...
...member of France's political élite, she has cultivated a populist image by canvassing the opinions of ordinary citizens, whom she calls the "legitimate experts" on France's problems. In person, she listens with the prim attentiveness of a Catholic schoolgirl. Yet she has no false modesty over paparazzi adulation, shrugging at photos of her in a bikini that caused a stir this summer. As she says in an interview aboard a train between Poitiers and Paris, her two main political bases, "Why should one have to be sad, ugly and boring to go into politics these days...
...Charles is also the one, as the public's demonstration of grief for Diana is mixed with attacks on the Crown, who asks aloud, "Why do they hate us?" Well, one reason is that the press has stoked antimonarchical feelings in readers who might otherwise blame the paparazzi posse on motorcycles that helped speed Diana to her doom. Another is that, having elevated Diana to heroine status even before her death, people needed villains, and her ex-in-laws were right out of central casting. Among hundreds of signs attached to flowers at the impromptu Diana memorial outside Buckingham Palace...
Here’s a riddle: if a baby is born to a pair of Scientologist celebrities but there’s no paparazzi to photograph it, does the baby exist? Between Mel Gibson’s drunken anti-Semitic rant and Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock’s four wedding ceremonies, Hollywood was certainly working the headlines this summer. But in case you didn’t have the time or just simply didn’t care to follow the latest round of celebrity escapades, we’ve put together a Spark’s Notes...
...signed Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2002, she was one of the first prominent celebrities to sign to a beauty brand. Now it seems stars see an opportunity [with beauty advertisements] to present themselves to the public in a more controlled way than the tabloids do. As a result, the paparazzi images become less of a commodity. In the past, there was resistance because it was viewed as overexposure. Now it's accepted...