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...million in royalties on his books?money that he had earmarked for "humanitarian purposes." Part of this could justifiably be used to ensure his family's future. Ironically, a new life of freedom might expose Solzhenitsyn to a hazard he never faced in Moscow: the constant, distracting attention of paparazzi and other celebrity seekers. So far he seems to be tolerating, if not actually enjoying the novelty. On arriving in Zurich, he smilingly acknowledged cheers from the waiting crowds...
...ranked third from last, topping only Princess Margaret (who has a special haughty flair for alienating the public) and her cousin the Duke of Kent (who is known in court circles as "the chinless wonder"). Like her father, Prince Philip, Anne has always enjoyed needling reporters and the English paparazzi. Unlike her father, she seems to have no saving wit. When she fell off her horse during a jumping competition in Kiev last August, she angrily turned on the watching reporters: "Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not seriously hurt...
Arriving for the showing of his new film, O Lucky Man!, at the Cannes Film Festival last May, Director Lindsay Anderson was incensed by the typical Cannes display of bared bosoms and battling paparazzi clamoring in front of the theater. He confronted one giggling "starlet" posing for photographers in the doorway and slapped her resoundingly on the bottom. "Get on inside and see the film," he told her, and then turned his wrath on Cannes' organizer. "This is a degenerate festival," he said. "I remember when it was fine. Now it's cheap and disgusting...
...week, the show biz season was off to a walloping start. Marlon Brando's hand was no sooner on the mend after an encounter with a persistent Manhattan photographer than some of the staff of Designer Pierre Cardin's Paris theater took on a passel of paparazzi. They wanted to catch Marlene Dietrich, a camera-shy 68, during her curtain calls. When Dietrich said no, French fists flew. Critics remembered Dietrich's last appearance 11 years before-with some of the same songs...
What has Gina Lollobrigida been doing the past 2½ years? Traveling incognito all over Italy, she says, hiding from the paparazzi by wearing a wide variety of wigs and stuffing her cheeks with prune pits. "After a while I changed the pits for two buttons," she adds. "My mouth was getting sore." The purpose of all this was to take photographs for a picture book called Italia Mia. A perfectionist, she says she made 2,628 shots of Venice before she picked the three she wanted. All in all, the effort has worn out two cameras...