Word: paparazzis
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...competed in a local swimsuit contest last spring because a campus drama production folded. Since her crowning in Atlantic City, where she edged out the first runner-up, Miss New Jersey, Suzette Charles, 20, who also is black, Williams has been surrounded by chaperons and sponsors and hounded by paparazzi. But she has not been stampeded. "It's difficult to develop overnight opinions on things I haven't even researched," she says levelly. "People think I should have an answer for everything. Well, I'm just human." -By J.D. Reed
...formula consists of putting the possessive form of the word star in front of another word and making it a story: star's pets, star's cars, star's hairdressers. Linking the main stories are short takes like a celebrity birthday register or a "Paparazzi" section in which stills are flashed on the screen of, say, Olivia De Havilland out for Sunday brunch in Beverly Hills...
...sister Ingrid were born in 1952, two years later, and their parents were married. But the scandal continued to haunt them. Says Isabella: "Every time Father came out with an unsuccessful film, the critics said he was old and crazy. We felt these assaults, and the intrusion of the paparazzi, very deeply, and we became very protective of our parents. Every time we'd see a long lens poking out from a bush, the whole gang would rush out and throw stones." Isabella still reveres her parents. "Father was an incredible man, both intellectual and emotional at the same...
...planned as a quiet trip, his first to the city since the death last year of his wife Princess Grace, but as an ever increasing pack of press photographers dogged the family's every move, the vacation soured into a series of spirited confrontations between Grimaldis and paparazzi. Outside his Park Avenue hotel with Socialite Lynn Wyatt, the wife of Texas Oilman Oscar Wyatt and an old family friend, Rainier ran up against a virtual wall of press lenses. Momentarily losing his temper, he reportedly lunged forward and hit one of the photographers, sending the fellow's glasses...
...time the corpse, covered with a brown blanket, was removed from the hotel, all elements of a Hollywood creep show were in place: stories of a mysterious woman in Belushi's room early that morning; rumors of the star's traveling with a cocaine crowd; paparazzi shouting and shoving and climbing over police cars to catch the action. Los Angeles Police Lieutenant Dan Cooke said that Belushi's death "appeared to have been from natural causes." By week's end the precise cause was still unclear...