"Go!" "Go!" "Jessica, are you dating anybody?" "Jessica, is it true?" "The magazine says that you're still in love with Nick." "Jessica, who are you dating?" "I love you, Jessica!" "Jessica?" "Jessica, is it true that you're still in love with Nick?" "Jessica..." "It's a really, weird, scary feeling." " Jessica, is it true..." " You're disoriented." "You can't see in front of you." "It's false imprisonment." "I can't get away." "I can't get out." "I can't get out of a store because these guys are blocking the door." "Can't get to my car." "When I'm in my car, they're surrounding me." "I can't see." "They flash light bulbs." "It's nighttime." "My vision is impaired." "Back off." "Back off!" "Jessica?" "Jessica?" "Jessica..." "It's high stress." "♪ Bright lights, big city going to my head ♪" "♪ bright lights, big city going to my head ♪" "♪ I don't care, no, 'cause you don't care, no ♪" "♪ as long as you know my name ♪" "♪ oh, yeah ♪" "♪ you're gonna know my name ♪" "♪ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪" "I've been shooting since the '80s, and celebrity photography has changed a lot." "With big award shows, there are about 50, 60 guys in the pen, and they're all fighting for the same image." "They're trying to get a head shot or a full-length fashion shot." "They're screaming at the celebrities, trying to get eye contact into their camera." "Rihanna, you didn't look..." " I, on the other hand, I'm outside the pen." "I'm on the red carpet, where I go right up to them." "I can make them pose for me, give me eye contact, or set up a shot." "You'll talk to the p.R. People." "They'll even tell you, flat-out, "we don't need all these photographers." "It's just for camera and show." "Basically, all we need is, like, five or six guys." "But no, we want all these photographers here because it looks great on camera, and it makes it look more glamorous."" "It's Hollywood." "If you look in the magazines and on all these websites and" "TV shows and seen all these celebrities, where does it really come from?" "The red carpet is just one piece of what's become a billion-dollar-a-year industry." "This is the second time I've seen this picture." "I adore it." "I think you will, too." "In the days of hedda hopper, at the premiere of something, the studios would hire photographers, but it was gracefully waiting." ""May I take a picture?"" "It was all agreed upon." "Client would walk in a room and say, "hey, how'd you get all these photographers here?" "!"" " You know?" " Nobody bothered anybody." "I didn't cross your fence." "You didn't cross my fence." "Now it's become something totally different." "I'm getting a shot!" "Someone jumping over your wall, okay?" "Your wall." "You know, how is that not a clear line?" "You can't do that, right?" "This is a perfect example ...Marc and I getting married." "We took every precaution and every measure so we could have a private moment." "Decided to do it in the backyard, invite 20 people." "They thought they were coming to a barbecue." "So, some of them are not even that dressed up." "Wearing shorts." "Marc built the runway." "Literally... hammer and nails, 'cause to get a contractor to do that, it would have been..." "We couldn't trust anybody." "We had to do it all ourselves, which is fine." "It was actually a beautiful experience in its own way." "But even with that, they found a way." "Helicopter comes over, right as I'm walking down the aisle." "We couldn't hear each other making the vows." "The people who were there couldn't hear our vows." "Till this day, I'm not sure if she said yes, because..." "Did you?" "You did, right?" "You know, technically, you can get out of this, because I never heard it." "But that place wasn't even sacred." "Shouldn't our home, at least, be sacred?" "Yeah, at getty images, we're selling an image every single second." "And within the news or editorial area, about 40% of all those images are entertainment images." "I get the same names thrown at me." ""Oh, do you work with Annie leibovitz?" "Do you work with Patrick demarchelier?"" "But the most published photographers in the world are the entertainment photographers." "A lot of people may not have heard of them, but these folks are being published in the thousands and thousands every week." "Photographers... the difference in photographers." "Well, I guess there's three kinds." "You got the guys that you regularly see on the scene, like" "Kevin and guys from wire image, where you see them at all the shows." "You kind of become friends with them." "They're not looking for a bad shot." "They're looking for something interesting." "Cool... no problem." "Then, you got the "stalkerazzis," you know, who go through anything to get a shot and who sit there like you're eating lunch with a bag with a big camera in it and whip it out" "on you, like, a moment's notice." "And then some of the worst offenders are just the creepos with the cellphones." "They're acting like they're looking for a number when I'm buying a Boca burger, which I don't want anybody to know about." "You know what I mean?" "I eat steaks and meat." "I'm a badass." "I'm in the Boca burger section, like... "Fuck!"" "You know?" "So, I'm like that." "Those people suck." "People with mobile phones." "You can't go anywhere without being photographed, basically, now." "You have to be very careful." "You have to accept it, you have to be aware of it, and you have to behave accordingly." "Now, the regular citizens have become paparazzis." "You're not safe anywhere." "Anyone can sell you." "Anyone can sell a piece of you." "The kind of fascination that we have with celebrities changed over time." "We used to go and see movies in these amazing movie houses, many of which were not only built to look like palaces but were called palaces." "And we would sit in the dark, and we would watch these huge, larger-than-life people... idols that were literally like deities." "The first people who appeared in movies, their names weren't used." "The audience had to make up their own names for these people." "Mary pickford, for instance, became known as "the girl with the curls," because the studios didn't promote them." "They knew if they promoted them that they would have to pay them more." "Pickford really changed that, personally." "She and her mother invented stardom and the percentage deal." ""The movie makes so much money, I make so much money."" "Unheard of, unthinkable." "And she married Douglas Fairbanks, who, on the male side, did the same thing." "Back when Hollywood was in its golden age, it was glamorous and beautiful and mysterious, and you wondered how they lived." "And if they did a spread in somebody's house, it was just so special." "And now we're so exposed." "There's no mystery." "Today, celebrity is an industry, and in every industry, you have raw material." "And the raw material in the celebrity industry is an actual body, an actual flesh-and-blood person, who has feelings, has emotions, has a family." "That raw material is shaped." "You have to look a certain way." "So, they have a stylist and ay." "Publicist and a manager and an agent that help form the raw material into the finished product." "Second of all, you have authorized publicity, things that the celebrity and his or her publicist have decided will become part of this person's image... interviews, magazine covers, the actual films, the products in which the star appears." "And then you have the unauthorized publicity, which is paparazzi photography and gossip, unsanctioned." "But, at the same time, it still contributes to the formation of the image." "Next, media takes this image and gives it to the consumer." "As far as outlets, there's print, there's television, and there's online." "So, some of the authorized outlets would be people," ""entertainment tonight,"" ""extra," "access Hollywood," and then a star's website or a star's fan club." "Unauthorized?" "In print, we have in touch and life  style." "There's gossip blogs, like tmz, Perez Hilton, dlisted, gawker." "So, bottom line, all these different players... they're all interconnected and symbiotic on one another." "Watch the cars behind you guys." "Have a great day." "I don't know who that was." "Do you know?" "No." "Pretty hot." "There she is." "Look." "And she sells?" "Oh, fuck, yeah, she sells!" "Yeah, yeah, she sells, for sure." "Usually, they run, what, $250, $500." "Truthfully." "Usually, they're $50, $250, to as much as $250,000." "Oh, there's keyshawn Johnson." "Because here's the deal." "You may get nothing today, but you may come today or tomorrow and make more in one day than most make in a year." "For the love of the game." "The problem is, it has to be the most audacious, the most outrageous, the most intrusive behavior may get the most saleable shot." "The agencies are trying to get that to sell them to magazines or video outlets that will pay money for it." "And the public buys the magazines and watches the shows." "So, it's that whole cycle." "Hey, guys!" "Get back!" "Guys, guys!" "Mike, right here." "Part of the game is to provoke a reaction." "Get back, guys." "Best thing that will happen is somebody will take a swing at them, you know, or start pushing or screaming." "That's a better shot." "It's more money." "Who are you dating?" "!" "They usually bring up ex-girlfriends, ex-wives." "They say stuff about Pam." "There's not too much they can really say to get my goat." "It's more invading your space, getting in your face." "You're like, "wait a minute." "I don't know you, dude." "You're gonna come at me and try to get a reaction?"" "There's my reaction." "We're all good." "I've given them one or two of those in my time." "But now you just have to know that that's the photograph that they want, and you just have to not give it to them." "What they're trying to do is provoke you." "Like, "oh, you were voted worst 'this' or 'that.'"" "and if they do provoke you, they have won, and you have lost." " Me, on the other hand..." " Yeah." "Marc doesn't have as much of a tolerance for that stuff." "So, we try not to put him in those situations too often." "Lindsay, big smile!" "They kind of want Lindsay Lohan to melt down in public so they've got their photograph." "This week in the celebrity spotlight, Lindsay Lohan is jail-bound..." "And, you know, half the time she gives them the thing they want, and it's very sad, because it's like, this girl was a good actress." "She had talent." "She made records, you know?" "And now it's kind of she's become their toy." "It's frightening." "There is a uniquely American sport called "grandicide."" "We build someone up to spectacular heights in order to tear them down." "It's a vicious cycle." "You build up." "You break her down." "The next famous person comes back again." "Next thing, you have to break them down again." "So, you just sit back and watch." "I know it's only a couple days in, but they say it's gonna go number one." "...superstar whose shocking private life became an international soap opera." "...questioning whether she can be a good mother." "...self-destructive cocktail of courtrooms, psych wards, and paparazzi." "That moment of her just looking in the camera shaving her head was such a powerful moment." "It was like, "fuck you, guys."" "I mean, there was something about it that was just "fuck you."" "You know?" "She had enough." "She broke in front of all of our eyes, and then people captured that." "But it was really sad to me." "People used to be able to develop kind of quietly, and if they made mistakes, the whole world didn't know about them." "Gee, Mickey, we don't know how lucky we are." "But that's not the way it is anymore." "Now, really horrible behavior and people who are definitely in trouble and need help are often just seen as people who are supposed to entertain you." "This is a mess." "Our celebrity images are supposed to be seamless." "But when those cracks open, it's kind of dirty, but it's also fascinating." "I am on a drug." "It's called "Charlie sheen."" "But then, you know, if it cracks open too wide, there's nothing left." "You borrow my brain for five seconds and just be like," ""dude, can't handle it!"" "He's a train wreck." "He's an absolute train wreck, which is fabulous." "It's great." "You know you shouldn't look, but you're just curious." "Come on, Mr. "p."" "I'm darryn lyons, "Mr. paparazzi," and this is my mini-me, Mr. "p."" "I started as a news photographer on a local paper, but my passion was certainly photography." "A lot of the world, looking from the outside in, live really disinteresting lives, and I think that is what's captured the culture of celebrity today." "I'm a true believer in the image." "I've been to Bosnia on the frontline getting shot at in full metal jacket." "I've won press photographer for the year in the United Kingdom two years in a row." "I've won all the awards you can imagine being a photographer." "The fact of the matter is, awards don't pay the mortgage." "I saw celebrity as being the huge moment of the future." "Celebrity isn't gonna go away." "It's been around since time began." "You know, Julius Caesar was famous." "Napoleon was famous." "They were famous in different ways." "Your key is mass media." "It had taken Napoleon a lifetime to become famous." "It took Charlie chaplin a month." "One day he was nobody, and a month later he was known in the deepest jungles of Africa." "He couldn't appear in public without a mob coming around him." "And he had to invent strategies to deal with that." "♪ Fame, fame ♪" "♪ fame, fame ♪" "♪ is it any wonder you're too cool to fool?" "♪" "♪ fame, fame ♪" "♪ fame ♪" "♪ bully for you, chilly for me ♪" "♪ got to get a rain check on fame ♪" "Celebrity today means anyone who's famous." "Now, you can be famous... you know, guy who was in a balloon who floated across the country." "Is that a star?" "You know..." "Is Jeffrey dahmer a star?" "The real name of the game is fame." "♪ Oh, fame ♪" "♪ oh, fame ♪" "♪ fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame ♪" "♪ fame ♪" "♪ what's your name?" "♪" "♪ what's your name?" "♪" "♪ what's your name?" "♪" "♪ what's your name?" "♪" "Historically, the American dream meant that anyone could come to America and through hard work could own a home and provide for their family." "Now, the American dream has really transformed into anyone can become a celebrity." "Say something with that great radio voice." "When you're listening to nothing but the best of oldies... ♪ So hold your head up, and you'll go far ♪" "The way that people talk about YouTube is that anyone who puts a video on YouTube can become famous." "Everyone can deny Justin bieber a contract, but then because enough people are interested him, he can still become famous." "It's this idea that if you have talent, and if you make that talent visible, then you can be voted, in our Democratic society, to be a star." "I think a recent survey of British children under 15 said they wanted to be a doctor or a nurse or an architect or a photographer." "No, they just wanted to be either rich or famous." "I want to be famous, but, like, the "Jersey shore" people, like on a reality show or something." "I had sex with Vinny." "You had sex with Vinny." "Bring it on!" "You know, "Jersey shore's" a huge success because we're nutjobs, and we don't care what people think about us." "So, I think that's why everybody loves us." "In general, a reality celebrity is like a one-use celebrity." "You pay a little for them, but then you can exploit them until they disintegrate." "There are people out there now that are completely celebrities and absolutely famous who don't work..." "Who don't even work." "They have nothing to sell." "They have no product." " There's..." " It's so scary." "I hate reality television." "I think it's the lowest common denominator." "It's mind rot to me." "It numbs my brain." "And the people being called celebrities and have their own reality shows, I want to kill them." "Told you you wouldn't regret it." "I think what people misunderstand is that we're in the entertainment industry." "We're not these serious people, and everyone's just gotten so used to all these actors taking themselves so seriously, when it's really just a joke industry." "It's supposed to be fun." "You need a keg." "There's nothing wrong with the Kim kard... all of those people." "If that's how they choose to make a living, more power to them." "It's not my... my line of work is different." "I want to entertain people." "Reality TV is, in a way, the new vaudeville." "There's nothing real about reality TV." "People are led to believe that it's real, and it's the big lie." "There's nothing real about it." "I'll tell you the first time it bothered me." "I walked out of my house." "I wanted to go and get my mother-in-law a birthday present." "And I walked out, and, for the first time ever, there were all these photographers outside." "And my first instinct, curiously enough, because we're kind of all animals, basically, was to run." "But then I got scared to run, because I was pregnant, and I didn't trust the streets of New York to be my ally." "And I started crying, and I said to the photographers, "please don't chase me." "I'm pregnant." "Please don't chase me."" "And they kept following me." "And I went into a building." "I saw a doorman in a building, and I said to him, "is it okay?" "Can I come in your building?"" "And he took me down to the garage." "And there was a couple, and they were on a motorcycle." "And they saw me crying." "And she and I traded clothing, everything... from head to toe... and I got on the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle." "And she walked out in my clothes, and he took me elsewhere and dropped me off." "But it's just gotten exponentially worse ever since then." "Sarah!" "Sarah!" "Get out of my way, asshole." "♪ Ooh-whee ♪" "♪ talkin' 'bout a party ♪" "♪ waiting for celebrities ♪" "The paparazzi life is like the lottery." "You might want to take a day off, but that might be the day when something major happens." "Oh, he just gave up." "He gave up... quitter." "You're hours away." "I start off very early in the morning, and I go late at night." "And I try to do it six days a week, if not seven days a week." "Got to do that celebrity rain dance." "Come on!" "Bring them in." "Bring them in." "Bring them in." "I love what I do because I get to drive up and down the streets of my favorite city in the world, Los Angeles, California..." " How are you?" " ...interact with celebrities..." " It was awesome!" "...meet the tourists." "I can take a day off when I want." "I'm my own boss." "I have no one to answer to." "Loving life, man." "Loving life." "They would work together in teams of two." "One of the photographers would aggravate the celebrity they were shooting, start some kind of confrontation, so that the other one could take the photograph." "The advent of the paparazzi took on a whole different nastiness." "Paparazzi were "I'll get you at any cost." "And I'll get it if it means killing you."" "And the competition among them was so fierce." "♪ I can't stop this feeling deep inside of me ♪" "Ron galella was probably the first well-known paparazzi, who every day woke up and decided to focus his lens on" "Jackie Kennedy no matter what she was doing or where she was." "♪ I..." "I'm hooked on a feeling ♪" "♪ high on believing that you're in love... ♪" "Age has been good to Ron, because he got a lot of very bad press." "He was seen to be a parasite." "His photography's now being collected by serious photography collectors." "But, you know, when Ron was working, it was completely different from the way it is now." "Getting your picture taken went from something where you felt that somebody was honoring you, a part of you... your work," "your beauty, your youth, something... to a hunt." "And most of the time, instead of celebrating something about you, a lot of the time is trying to find something wrong with you." "I'm not out to get a bad shot of Lindsay Lohan." "I'm out to get a shot." "Now, if she's doing good, well, I'm taking a good shot." "If she's doing bad, well, in her eyes, I'm taking a bad shot." "To me, it's still the shot." "No, no, no, no, no, no." "You're about the rudest people I've ever run into." "Thank you." "No wonder people come up and slap you." "He threw the finger at me." "I don't blame him!" "You're an asshole!" "They use us as a scapegoat." ""Oh, paparazzi... bad." "Well, you took the picture, and they wrote about it, but you shouldn't have took the picture."" "Well, okay, but they still sold magazines, and you still read it." "Hey, I got a question." "Who do you think people hate more, the parking enforcement or the paparazzi?" "You guys." "Really?" "Yeah." "I think it's really easy to blame the paparazzi because they're actual bodies right there that we can pinpoint as the cause." "There are photos of the paparazzi getting in celebrities' faces, whereas the writers and editors, completely unseen." "And we certainly don't want to blame ourselves." "I think the paparazzi has a place." "40% of many of the magazines have paparazzi photos." "They're an important part of the industry." "♪ Whoo-ooh ♪" "♪ I want to get away, get away ♪" "♪ whoo-ooh ♪" "♪ to our sweet escape, sweet escape ♪" "♪ whoo-ooh ♪" "♪ I want to get away, get away ♪" "If I'm in a doctor's office, and they're all there, and there's no men around me, that's the one I'll go for first." "Either ok or us." "I'll pick that up before a sports illustrated." "Perez Hilton and tmz andok magazine... yes, I do read them all." "If someone I know is on the cover and it has the big headline, I want to know what's happening." "If there's a controversy, like, an argument between people, and I know it's gonna be, like, ongoing, that's when I buy." "Good gossip, basically." "Confidentialgoes behind the headlines for its stories... stories that we feel, that I feel, the public should know." "Robert Harrison published kind of pulpy skin magazines out of his apartment in the 1940s, and then he started confidential in the 1950s." "Confidential basically made what had to that point been unspeakable speakable." "So, women's sexuality, having relationships between races, even homosexuality." "Confidential was operating entirely outside of the system and had no qualms about reporting on these sorts of things." "Some of the stories were outrageous, like, "I boiled my baby in the oven this morning"" "and things like that, terrible things." "And there were people who believed it." "And our damage control was just ignore it, 'cause it will go away." "And most of the time, it did." "The outlaw magazines took advantage of the fact that there were secrets that they could basically use as blackmail." "The classic story, of course, was the story about rock Hudson's homosexuality, which confidential had absolute evidence of, and they said," ""give us an exclusive story, and we won't print it."" "So, the studio took a much lesser actor, who was also gay, and they sacrificed him Pretty sleazy stuff." "But it was business." "Confidentialbecame extremely popular in a very short amount of time." "I mean, upwards of 5 million copies of month at its height." "But all of these stars, including Maureen O'Hara, liberace, and Dorothy dandridge, filed suit against confidential for the various things that were said about them." " If they don't feel it, evidently..." " Robert Harrison agreed to basically stop covering the stars, and then the stars and the studios would stop suing him." "So, he sold it off." "I think it's a part of americana." "I think it's gonna live long after I'm gone." "You're so funny." "I mean, you're never gonna get the ball..." "Yeah, yeah." "Looking for all those sort of fun, little, behind-the-scenes kind of images that are gonna make a reader feel like that they were really there..." "someone stepping on someone's train, someone greeting someone, saying, "hi," Nicole Kidman," "Keith urban going out on their date night, things like that." " We can do a wide shot of the cast..." " From this we pick a few hundred pictures, and I would say, in terms of our space in the magazine, we have room for six consecutive pages of award-show coverage." "Now, something really juicy happens at the show, you never know." "You could get a cover story out of it, or it could go in the" ""hot stuff" section and be a gossip item." "Mila kunis looked amazing." "So, we might run a full-length dress shot of her, in which case we can't necessarily run another picture of her inside with" "Natalie Portman, even though it's really cute." "So, it's really just a giant puzzle." "...whether or not that runs in a different section of the magazine." "Right." "Us weeklywas launched in the 1970s to compete with people." "People magazine was first published in 1974." "One of the first issues had Gerald Ford not, like, in a suit, in the white house." "He's in a pool, and his shirt is off." "So, it's really trying to give this intimate look into these different personalities' lives." "And it was a tremendous success immediately." "Us weekly was actually published by the New York times company originally and eventually sold it to jann wenner, the founder of rolling stone." "It has been a monthly, a biweekly, and a weekly." "They have changed its format, its tone, who they're covering." "He tried everything, and none of it worked." "It seemed like people was invincible." "Around 2002, Bonnie Fuller took overus weekly, and she changed the face of celebrity reporting." "A lot of the magazines would feature these glamorous shots of celebrities, and at the time us weekly wasn't doing that well." "And so the only photos that us weekly could afford were those shots that magazines wouldn't print." "I was interested in celebrities being glamorous, but then I also wanted to see the human side of them, too." "And so, we created a section called "stars are just like us."" "♪ Whoo-ooh ♪" "♪ if I could escape ♪" "♪ whoo-ooh ♪" "♪ if I could escape ♪" "♪ whoo-ooh ♪" "Bonnie snapped up those shots of celebrities taking out their garbage, picking up their kids." "It was a home run for us." "I guess I was a pioneer, because that was the first time that paparazzi photos had been presented that way." "She definitely has the good hair and then the pretty... hello." "Yeah." "She's so gorgeous." "Everybody wants to know who it is and kind of become the expert and the insider." "So, we want to always give that." "That's one of the reasons why they come here, to us weekly." "The way that we lay it out, it always does feel like you were like a member of the party there." "And they love it." " Do you know if this thing..." " 'Cause if not, I'll take it." "It's not." "It's Keith and Nicole." "Is that nowhere?" "Well, then I'm using it." "All right." "Let me just check..." "Can't not use Halle Berry." "It's a crime against humanity not to run..." "All right." "All right." "Everybody wins." "When Bonnie and I worked together as editors at us weekly, I broke the story that Britney Spears and" "Justin Timberlake had broken up." "And then the next week, we had a follow-up to that story, and we created these soap operas." "There was a time when I was on the tabloids every week for maybe two year straight..." "Try every day." "...and a soap opera." "[ "The young and the restless"" "If you're in a relationship, and you're in the tabloids all the time, it's like, "well, maybe that part was true." "Maybe it wasn't."" "Then, all the sudden, you're a victim to believing what they're saying and what they're writing." "Gossip is itself just as much of a product as a movie is." "Actual people's lives are turned into a story for us to consume." "For example, with the love triangle of Brad pitt and Angelina jolie and" "Jennifer Aniston and also with Liz Taylor and Eddie fisher and" "Debbie Reynolds in the 1950s, each of the people in both of these situations was given a role to play... the temptress, the innocent man in the middle, and then the victim." "And once Jennifer Aniston was made the victim, it's very difficult for her to become something else, which is the reason why there are still magazine covers now, years later, saying Jennifer Aniston can't find love, Jennifer Aniston can't get over" "him, because that is still her role is victim, when, really, she's of course found happiness, and she's dated other people and whatever." "But that has been the role in which she has been slotted." "In the early days ofus weeklybecoming successful, people magazine began to feature more of these breakups and who's dating whom." "Whenuswanted to scoop people, at whatever cost, so that they could claim the exclusive and thus attract bigger newsstand sales." "There was this great photo of Jennifer Lopez reading us weekly, and we wanted that shot." "But people magazine outbid us all day." "It kept going up and up and up and up." "And people never published those photos, but they paid tens of thousands of dollars just so that we couldn't publish them." "What happened is a series of bidding wars for photos under" "Bonnie Fuller and Janice min after her that really escalated the photo price for all photos." "Even small photos inside the magazine, they still wanted to be the only ones who had them." "Bonnie Fuller flipped the demand." "So, instead of just tracking the moments when a star was either doing something scandalous or doing something that was absolutely glamorous, really on, the paparazzi now needed photos of the stars doing everything in between, which meant near 24-hour surveillance." "Once you spot a car, you look at the last three numbers of the license plate that you match with the car." "Nicky Hilton... black range rover, 069." "Paparazzi know all the license-plate numbers." "They know all the tail-plane numbers of their planes." "Find out and then call me or text me back." "They pay people off... valet Parkers, the doormen at hot restaurants and clubs." "Whoo!" "We got Paris Hilton." "They have a network of informants." "Check out what's happening." "Want to see if our crowd's moving across the street right now." "There's a lot of paparazzis and their cars." "You see the guy's got the trunk open." "There's a path." "Get down in position ourselves." "So, nobody's talking about..." "When you know you see one, you just got to deal with one guy, and you hope and pray that he doesn't start calling all his friends, you know?" "Go, go!" "Within 15 minutes, there are 5 other people that are there." "Let the two guys get the shot and be done with it." "But why there has to be 50 people getting the same shot..." "If I saw someone I want to photograph walk out of the house, I sure as hell wouldn't call my buddies." "Why not enjoy the entire piece of steak?" "I don't get the whole call friends and relatives and..." "It's literally being pursued like prey, like an animal." "What's "the price of beauty"" "really worth?" "There's no kind of structure." "There's no type of regulations." "There's just "get that picture." "Get that shot." "I don't care what it takes."" "They don't care about breaking the law." "They'll climb a wall and take pictures over the gate." "They've done it at my office, in my backyard." "They do it, the helicopter." "You're in your backyard, and the helicopter's coming that low, and you keep running in." "And it's like a stupid game of, you know..." "Have you ever tried to reason with..." "I know that... - I've always tried to reason." "Oh, my God, have I tried to reason." "I have tried to reason with them." "I have had talks about "come on." "There's better things that you can do." "You can achieve your dreams."" "I mean, it's stupid." "It's just gotten out of control." "There are certain instances where the paparazzi are gonna just overexcite themselves." "Move!" "You got to move!" "Cameras get broken." "People get hurt... the aggression, the hits, the elbows." "You won't get no video, man." "I try to avoid it, but this is what it's all about." "Get that shot, no matter what." "I had a very public relationship that fell apart, and I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and I had never been an a-list celebrity before." "I pretty much was just photographed on red carpets and maybe the occasional lunch at the Ivy or whatever." "But once that happened... once I was diagnosed, and I was going through such unhappiness and such real dark chaos in my life..." "I couldn't leave my house." "And it really made me, I guess, start to dissect what it is that" "would make that such an interesting thing to photograph and is that what sells magazines is seeing somebody at their lowest?" "A word that has become absolutely meaningless today is "unspeakable."" "There's nothing that's unspeakable anymore." "You know, stars' cellulite." "They pump gas, too." "There are still love triangles." "It's degrading to women, especially the way they show women celebrities." "It's just, like..." " I was in Hawaii, and I have this horrible bikini shot that a paparazzi got and crap light and a weird angle, and it's terrible." "And it was everywhere." "And they did everything to just make me look like I was just this beached whale with cellulite thighs." "It was just so bad, and I was like, "oh, my God, do I look like this?"" "I have a little girl." "I don't read this in front of her." "I don't really read any of my magazines in front of my daughter because I don't want her to get that bad body image at such a young age, and it happens really young." "I've had little girls as a teacher tell me they're fat at four years old." "Where are you getting this from?" "I think the magazines and the media are the catapult." "That's the breeding ground for them." "Whether it be people, us, instyle, glamour, vogue... they all portray women as this untouchable goal." "You can create the illusion that someone is a normal, ordinary person." "In other words, Joan Crawford vacuums her own house, or she has the perfect family." "Or you can create the illusion that they're aloof and aristocratic goddesses." "But control was the name of the game." "And the whole apparatus grew up around that need." "The studio system determined which movies the stars would appear in." "It also determined where they would live, what cars they would drive, and, in certain cases, who they would marry." "It also provided them with protection." "All of the images came through the studio's publicity department." "So, if you were running a fan magazine, and you ran a photograph which was unflattering, that was it." "You didn't get another photograph not only of that star but of all the other stars that were working for that particular studio." "If one of their stars was involved in a scandal, the studio would rush right in and do damage control." "It could be hushed up." "So, the control at that time was fairly easy." "It's just not the case anymore." "The mainstream media can say, "we won't report about 'x, ' 'y, ' or 'z, '" and it's still gonna be widely known because so many are reporting it on the Internet." "So, the kind of control that celebrities and their managers and their studios used to have over their images simply does not exist anymore." "Tmz is not about getting the next tom cruise interview." "It's just not." "And so, I don't think there's as much leverage." "Harvey levin got his start as a lawyer and correspondent covering the o.J. Simpson trial in the 1990s." "Police are banking on blood in the Ford bronco..." "He started tmz in 2004, and what tmz is doing is taking the tactics, the form, the colors, the general ethos of confidential, and just transferring it to new medium." "A little over half past the hour now." "Here's a look at the stories that you may have missed." "Lindsay Lohan..." " Cable news pushed the network news to be faster and more immediate." "And now the network news and cable news are in many ways responding to what happens on the Internet." "Media habits have totally changed ways of getting information." "People go online." "They don't wait for a weekly." "They don't wait for a monthly magazine anymore." "When some news breaks, they want to know now what's going on." "Whenever something happens to Justin bieber..." "like, his birthday was yesterday..." "Google, sent to my phone." "Robert pattinson got a new haircut." "Sent to my phone." "In 2006, tmz broke the story of Mel Gibson's arrest, which drove a tremendous amount of traffic to the site." "Since then, tmz has grown into an incredibly well-read site." "They then went on to use the base product, this raw footage from the website, and then came up with a way that he could repackage it on television." "Today, on "tmz"... - Finally, snooki is good." "Nicole, you were amazing on "wrestlemania."" "You did a great job." "If you ask around, and you say, "why do you come to tmz?"" "Increasingly, what you're gonna hear people say is, "they seem to get the stories first."" "When I was running msnbc, we would do our best to make sure the source was credible." "But these news operations simply don't have the time or the ability to fact-check some of what they're reporting." "You know, that was a terrible misquote, and it's very good that you brought that up." "I never said that in that context." "He never talked to those people, and I never talked to those people, either." "They make up things!" "Yeah, they do!" "It's very tough, unfortunately, for a celebrity to sue a publication." "You have to prove malice." "You have to prove negligence." "Also, a lot of celebrities don't want to draw attention to a story that is completely wrong or defamatory or give publicity to some blogger who's working out of his garage." "If you sue that person, suddenly you make their site relevant." "I had a big, famous lawsuit againstthe sunnewspaper in britain a long time ago, in the '80s, which drove me crazy... it went on for a year and a half That said that I slept with underage rent boys, gave them drugs, urinated on them." "I mean, it made my life hell." "But I got a front-page apology, which was the most important thing for me." ""We were wrong." "We're sorry."" "Now, people can just make up what they want on the Internet, and as soon as they put it on the Internet, it goes worldwide." "So you're forever denying things." "They discourage you from going after the tabloids." "Like, a lawyer will be like, "it's gonna cost you so much money, and it's gonna take so much time, and it's not gonna make a difference, and nobody's gonna care about the story tomorrow."" "And they convince you to just deal with it." "When all the sudden you're hearing rumors that are not true on a CNN crawl, that... you sort of go, "this is CNN."" "I don't take it personally at this point, but there was something about the outlet of CNN that felt like that's a prestigious channel." "If you respond to certain things, you're right in the sandbox with them." "If you don't respond, the story now grows because of the viral world and because of 24-hour news cycle." "So, we're constantly trying to figure out how to put out a fire." "Perfect example is Tiger Woods." "He didn't say anything." "He issued a statement that he had "transgressions," and then he disappeared for months." "Women came out of the woodwork, and it ended up being a giant scandal because he let it blow up." "Think of this as a system." "Anything that happens here also has a chain reaction throughout the rest of the industry, like Tiger Woods, who, we were being served a very tightly controlled image." "As soon as the scandal broke, a watch company or nike doesn't want their name affiliated with this sort of behavior." " This morning, tmz reports..." " Tmz is saying..." " Tmz has learned..." "Until very recently, major news organizations wouldn't have cited a tmz as a source." "And now they do." "There's something beyond just reporting who's making out with whom." "Therein lies the love/hate relationship that we have with someone like levin." "He's illuminating things that we maybe don't want to know about that we also feel we should know about." "But then, on the flip side, there's a lot of sagging flesh and giving the camera the finger." "So, a blog will have unauthorized content that may or may not be false." "Maybe in a post right above or below, journalistic content." "It's dictating that we learn how to do our homework, not believe everything we're reading in blogs because everybody has an angle." "We're at a really dangerous spot as far as our inability to discern what is fact and what is fiction." "You have no choice but to believe what you read." "You have no choice but to believe what you read." " This one..." " Yeah." "...kind of shocks me." "Yeah, yeah." "But it's probably not even true." "And we'll read it." "We'll still read it." "Yeah." "You can't beat the truth of a camera, and this is what the celebrities are paranoid about." "The camera doesn't lie." "It doesn't stop the Botox, it doesn't stop the surgery, and it doesn't stop you having sex with a costar." "This is real." "No one can lie about this picture." "It's there." "And that's one of the great, historical significances that photography and the media bring today." "The problem is with the celebrities." "It's instantaneous." "They have no control." "Even when we're talking about authorized photos, there's still a lot the celebrities can't control." "♪ Take it out, baby, and show me what you really want ♪" "♪ they'll not ever see the beauty inside ♪" "This is pretty much how we receive things back here." "Pretty much their entire body gets retouched." "Well, you can kind of see." "Here, where it asks to cut in, we cut in." "We have to make sure that all the red carpets match, and it doesn't." "So, we're gonna have to fix that." "Some of the time, the people in the background that you see are not really there or are duplicated." "We get rid of stains on her dress..." "And we try to get rid of ht wrinkles." "Paparazzi shots need a lot more tlc than a photo that we get from a great photographer." "That's definitely a lot less work." "And let's help her a little bit, 'cause she looks a little tired." "Sometimes we get photos that are, you know, green." "Yeah, but we can fix that." "The idea that a picture never lies is simply not true." "A picture captures somebody at a particular moment in time." "A celebrity can tell a joke and pull a face or something." "And then, when that person is in trouble, that image will appear, and it will look like it was shot at the same time in reaction to something that they've done." "So, images don't always tell the truth." "It's the context." "The context is very important." "So, I think people need to be more discerning when they're looking at images." "Renee zellweger's probably one of the toughest shots to get because she doesn't really come out and be seen as often as we'd like her to be seen." "Haven't seen you in a while." "You're looking great." "That was exhilarating." "I enjoy making her smile and laugh and making her feel good, you know?" "The ride is about staying in the public eye, because if you're forgotten, then my camera goes down, and then the world doesn't know or even want to care about who they are anymore." "You'll be gone in a flash." "It's called Hollywood." "Who makes them famous?" "Well, actually, I do." "They're reliant on the paparazzi to photograph them to make them money." "That's delusional." "That is absolutely delusional." "Paparazzi do not keep your career alive." "You know, we're not saying, "don't take our pictures."" "We understand there's a market here." "But a photograph of you in your backyard sunbathing topless, 'cause you can and you should be able to, that's a violation." "And a photograph that's in a magazine... there's an agreement that this is my job, and I'm to be photographed." "One is like having someone rob your house and go into your panty drawer, and the other is something artistic and beautiful, and both are in agreement that this is going to take place." "There's a difference." "Vitamin water zero hotline." "This is Ellen." "How can I help you?" "As long as you're famous, you become an enormous commodity in this country." "My guest tonight is somebody who's been in the center of a huge scandal rocking America this week." "And news is a business." "Newspaper entities need to sell papers." "Websites want traffic." "Television networks want ratings." "Developing news out of California..." "Lindsay Lohan..." "Increasingly, the way to get that is to have an entertainment component." "...record-setting weekend, to the tune of $30 million." "...and more than $155 million this opening weekend." "Every Sunday night, what's the first item we see on the news?" "How much money a movie made over the weekend." " "Avatar" is at the number-one spot..." " I mean, "avatar" hit a billion, and it's bigger than the security breach at the airport." "It's bigger news." "Why?" "Nick paton Walsh joining us live from kabul, Afghanistan." "Many thanks." "She made sure he got the message." "Wait until you hear about Charlie sheen's..." "The concept of hard news has really changed." " Charlie sheen insists..." " A lot of what used to be considered tabloid is now mainstream." "Frankly, they stopped telling important news about the world, and they just tell gossip." "Maybe you need a..." "like, sometimes, you, you know, watch so many things or somebody's gotten stabbed, like, all day long, and there was a flood here." "There's an earthquake there." "Like, maybe you kind of want to know the new shirt that Brad pitt's wearing." "Who doesn't like a good Hollywood escape from time to time?" "There's an argument that celebrities act as "info-tainment" parkinson's awareness month." "Michael j." "Fox... - ...actually often helping issues of real concern getting into the public domain." "So, for instance, if tragically, a celebrity is ill with breast cancer or something like that, it does raise awareness." "Does speak to the importance of screening..." "But there's concern on the other hand that focusing so much on the minutiae of how famous people live their lives is just diverting attention from issues which the press should be filling their pages with." "Sarah Palin, entertainment or journalism?" "Sarah Palin is a very good example of the way in which celebrity culture has influenced politics." "I'm ready, and cross my fingers, hoping it wasn't a mistake." "I mean, say what you will about Sarah Palin." "She has been brilliant in manipulating her image." "What an adrenaline rush." "I think there's real indecision over whether or not" "Sarah Palin really wants to be president, or if she just wants to be a celebrity." "I think it's unclear." "It certainly is the question that's united Hollywood and Washington." "Democracy becomes another reality show." "Is trump actually serious about running for president?" "That's not good for anyone." "If the mainstream media were to fold, and celebrity tabloids were the only people out there publishing, it would mean that our entire system of democracy has collapsed." "Democracy relies on an informed electorate to make educated decisions at the ballot box." "You can only do that if you have access to truthful, timely information." "The public has a lot of responsibility here." "The paparazzi doesn't get away with this in a vacuum." "So, I think citizens need to step up and start valuing that information they're getting from their local news gatherers." "...the Paris Hilton story." "Wait a second here." "Hold on a second." "I'm gonna make a point." "We're not covering this, all right?" "Yeah, exactly." "Easy, easy." "I'm done with the Paris Hilton stories." "What do you have against Paris Hilton?" "I have nothing against Paris Hilton." "That was not the issue." "The issue was the story and whether or not it was worthy as the lead." "Paris, I love your lips." "I think at this point it's getting to be supply leading demand, because look at how many magazines there are now." "It's like, "do we really need that?"" "But people keep picking them up." "I'll walk through an airport, and there will be three out of four people buried in this magazine, and I'll walk through, and no one will notice me, which is great." "But there is some irony there." "And I understand it, 'cause I can get sucked into it." "I can spend 20 minutes on an airplane and flip through that stuff, and I can be in that world, reading about who's dating who or looking at somebody's cellulite on a beach or whatever." "And it makes me feel awful." "You know, the celebrities are famous people." "They know that." "They work hard, I think, to become a celebrity in the first place, and then you got their picture all over the magazines." "I don't feel guilty at all." "Plus, I'm buying the magazines." "It costs me a little bit of money to even buy the magazines." "So..." "I don't feel guilty." "It comes with your job." "You asked for this life." "You wanted to be in the limelight, in the spotlight, so deal with it." "Yeah, I kind of asked for this life and kind of knew that this was part of it that comes with it." "But the same way the magazines make money, they make money for me." "They get the word out that I have a record out there and put me in some light that hopefully shines that people connect to and make them want to hear my record." "There's a price to fame." "Are you willing to pay it?" "Yes, that's part of your job is promoting your work." "But not..." "I don't think it's your job when you're going to a yoga class." "That's not your job." "That's an invasion of privacy, and they need to stop." "Look." "I have a great life." "I wouldn't trade myself, even with the paparazzi following me." "But not because I have a great life they should feel like they own it." "We represented Barbra Streisand for many, many years, and I got into the habit of carrying a large, black umbrella, whether the weather called for it or not." "And if I saw photographers coming towards us, I would open the umbrella, and like two fools, we would walk down the street with the umbrella in front of me so the photographers would not take her picture." "She did not want her picture taken." "On the other hand, Frank Sinatra, who we represented, controlled that part of his celebrity by never appearing in public." "Sinatra wouldn't walk down the street." "If he had to go from here to there, it was in a car." "Do you remember when we were in the trunk of somebody's car, trying to get away?" " In Gina's car?" " Mmhmm." "We were just laying in the trunk." "I'm like, "when did this happen?"" "I wanted to go shopping." "I'm like, "I'm in a trunk with my girlfriend," and I'm like, "this is your life?"" "Well, there's nothing you can do about it." "I was like, "I beg to differ." "I beg to differ."" "You feel out of control, like you have no control over this, and then you realize, "I have to actually change my life."" "We've moved out of Miami." "We've taken measures to just sort of concentrate on the quality of life." "There's a lot of places where you can live, where there are not paparazzi." "You don't have to be in the public eye." "There's ways to avoid the cameras." "And then they'll say, "well, she's isolated." "She lives a rarefied life." "She doesn't have the human touch." "She's not..."" "Well, I'm desperate to be like you and you and you." "They told me they're coming over." "The big black guy?" "Yeah." "Yeah, okay." "Here comes Spencer." "Here she comes." "Hey!" "Hey, Happy Birthday, Spencer!" "My birthday present." "Let's see it." "Let's see it." "The problem always is that certain celebrities invite in the attention." "And so, the response of the media is, "well, we're getting called."" "They should have an agreement." "Whether it's the Paris hiltons or the girls that don't have an issue with it, the "Jersey shores," all those television shows... there should be an agreement." "But it doesn't mean that everybody else is a free-for-all." "What could any guy want more than this on his birthday?" "Wow!" "Look at that." "A lot of the time, they're told where to be and when." "Yeah, it becomes kind of a game." "I've got Darren coming out." "I'm gonna walk him down." "Well, when he comes, we'll definitely..." " Okay." "Publicists either tip you, or they'll give information out indirectly, what the client won't even know, just to build more hype." "They're supposed to." "That's their job." "Yeah, she was twittering us." "She tweets." "She told us." "Twitter has become another source." "She was actually telling us to come here." "That's fine, but the owners of the establishment don't want you on their property." "It's not her." "It's them." "One time we had a source that was giving us specific, incredible information." "It was almost as if it was coming from Angelina jolie's mouth herself." "On when pitt flew into Africa..." "private, little resort... we had three or four minutes to get the picture that was bought in an auction overnight by us magazine." "Unauthorized publicity definitely has a role in maintaining a star's visibility, and I think that today celebrities have learned to allow just enough coverage, so as to make it seem like you are giving some of yourself but at" "the same time maintaining a semblance of privacy." "I mean, someone like Brad and Angelina have a really meticulously maintained star image." "But they also allow slight moments of authenticity that make them interesting." "Angelina jolie knows exactly the moment that you need to have this particular part of her persona exposed to the world, this particular part of her life exposed to the world, and she's brilliant at it." "You have to constantly be able to reinvent yourself, and the ones who stay before us really are the ones who, one way or another, manage to do something that keeps us interested and fascinated." "That, to me, smells celebrity double standards." "I don't agree with it." "I think it's completely and utterly wrong." "Like, Angelina and Brad pitt say, "under my terms, I'll put my children on the front of a magazine for 15 million bucks." "But when you're photographing me in a public place, unh-unh-unh, that's not on."" "I don't understand that." "That was a very interesting case." "We worked with them for free." "They wanted all the money to go to charity." "So, it worked perfectly." "The value of an exclusive image is very high, because that baby or that wedding hasn't been photographed before." "So, if we can work with the celebrities and get those pictures out first, it is a massive disincentive to the paparazzi to chase after them, because they're not gonna get a lot of money for the third picture of the baby, when the" "first pictures have been published everywhere." "Publicity..." "You know, it's a game played for the benefit of everyone" "involved up to a certain point." "And that certain point is where it gets dangerous." "Drive out the garage." "Couple yards down the street, one, two, three, four cars." "They'd all be smoking cigarettes, waiting for you to come out." "Jump in their cars, and then you're off." "The main car runs a yellow light." "Everybody behind that person, the ten cars, are running lights until it turns green again." "Then you find yourself driving kind of like crazy just to get away from them." "One in the front, one in the back, one on the side... you feel like a trapped rat." "It's a matter of playing chicken." "Either you're gonna stop, or you're gonna crash into the car." "Nicole Richie was chased by a paparazzi and got in a car accident." "Thank God her children weren't in the car." "It can get really dangerous." "Look what happened to Diana." "Reports say a vehicle carrying the princess and her entourage was being chased by photographers." "Several hours after the accident, French emergency services were still at the scene, cutting people from the wreckage." "This isn't the time for recriminations but for sadness." "However, I would say that I always believed the press would kill her in the end." "But not even I could imagine that they would take such a direct hand in her death, as seems to be the case." "It would appear that every proprietor and editor of every publication that has paid for intrusive and exploitative photographs of her, encouraging greedy and ruthless individuals to risk everything in pursuit of Diana's image, has blood on his hands today." "Well, if the publishers have blood on their hands today, so do the readers of those magazines." "After the whole shock of her death, people started putting flowers outside" "Buckingham Palace." "And several legitimate news photographers were assaulted because they were taking photographs of people putting the flowers there." "The people who assaulted them were the same people who had bought the magazines that made her image a valuable commodity." "Photographers would not have chased her if they couldn't have got good money for those photographs." "And it was the people who were buying the magazines that were ultimately supplying that money." "When princess Diana died, there was that sense of" ""wow, this is gonna change everything."" "What was sort of the immediate impact, do you think?" "I think media interest in princess Diana and particularly her death led to a change of culture." "The commercial demand for those kind of photos fell." "But, unfortunately, in the last few years, as the younger royals starting to join the family, the media interest in them and the intrusion is escalating again." "...is just 16 days away... - And on the big day, a viewing party in London's iconic trafalgar square the world is waiting for, the first real... - ...more than a billion pairs of eyes." "...on a fairy tale we've all been living and breathing." "...echoes of Diana's "I dos."" "Reminds me so much of Diana's wedding..." "What I love about teaching history is to say, "well, this isn't the first time this has happened."" "You can go back and show how it all happened before." "It's a madhouse around here." "George, welcome to the party!" "We should rush this, Britney-style, man." "I'm going in." "This is a gang-bang." "It's a gang-bang." "Kim!" "Very nice." "I am a photojournalist." "It's an art." "No, they're not journalists." "Paparazzi are people with a camera." "Anyone can get a camera." "You can go to the drugstore and buy a disposable camera." "Now you're taking pictures." "You're all the sudden this journalist?" "No way are they a journalist." "If they're allowed to do it... if they're allowed to chase you, if they're allowed to invade your privacy, and they know they're gonna make money off of it, they're not gonna stop." "If you're a photographer, take a decent photograph." "Go and learn your trade." "Make some beautiful photographs, like Irving penn or someone like that." "What you do is just crap." "It's crap." "It must be frustrating." "It must be frustrating." "What I think might be even more frustrating is to never see a photographer again." "Paparazzi are doing journalism." "They are gathering information." "They're telling a story of some sort and disseminating it to an audience." "The first amendment protects artists in their ability to be creative and sometimes risqué." "And it also protects the paparazzi." "But it doesn't necessarily mean that it protects against each and every action." "There definitely are limits to free speech." "You don't get to publish false things about somebody." "You don't get to publish obscenity, child pornography." "You do not get to invade someone's privacy by shooting with a long telephoto lens into somebody's bedroom." "The supreme court has said you don't get to do those things." "You tell me this kind of behavior is covered by what journalism should be covered by?" "That's just bull." "Back off." "Wow, dude." "No way." "Are you kidding?" "These people are behaving terribly." "It's beyond rude and crude and unacceptable." "But it's very hard to legislate good behavior." "I'm not somebody for more laws, more laws, and more laws, to say who can shoot a picture and who can't and where they can put it and what they can do." "I mean, that's part of the beauty of our society is the freedoms." "But there's got to be something that we can stand up morally, as a culture, and say, "hey, that's not cool taking a picture of that kid over there." "Cut it out."" "How?" "He's the manager of this big, big, big..." "I love to walk my son to school because it's the time of day that he's very open." "The whole world is interesting to him." "And to have long lenses aimed at you, purposefully getting in your... never mind your physical path but your emotional path... it's actually a scary feeling..." "like having sharpshooters aimed at you." "All righty, here it is." "The more intimate shots are the ones that people criticize." ""Well, why don't you leave them alone?"" "But there is a demand for it." "We just shoot and submit them into the library." "It's up to the agencies, the publication, the TV networks, the websites and blogs." "I want to be like my dad when I grow up so I don't have..." "Wherever you read it or saw it, ask them why do they publish it?" "Cute kids are popular, and celebrities have a lot of cute kids." "A lot of women love to look at cute babies." "Now they're having covers of these magazines." "It's like, "who's the cutest Hollywood baby?"" "They haven't decided to become a famous person." "So, you can't do that to them." "There are so many outlets now to sell pictures of celebrity kids, and there's so much money to be made in it." "You can't even argue with somebody about the ethics of it." "I can't explain to somebody, "I'm a high-profile person, but my son isn't." "And just because he's with me It's not like a handbag." "He's a person."" "And it's worrisome." "It's really worrisome." "Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "How's everything going, Britney?" "Stop." "Whoever flashes these lights at my kid again, I'll push your face through the back of your head." "You got it?" "Get back, back, back, back." "That includes you." "I know." "I know." "Jack!" "Stop it!" "Stop taking pictures!" "Stop it!" "I'm not kidding!" "Stop taking pictures!" "Stop it!" "The thought is devastating to me." "It's frightening, terribly frightening to me." "Wow, it really just made me really upset to think about that, right?" "I mean, to have someone following your children is..." "It's entering a place that just no one should be." "Leave children out of it." "They didn't ask to be famous, and they have their rights, too." "The kids ought to be doing the suing." "And that might be a way legally to get some traction on this." "There are very different laws of privacy via the English courts than the American courts." "J.K. Rowling brought proceedings on behalf of her very young son, and it was held that her son had a reasonable expectation of privacy, that he wouldn't be followed around by photographers on the street, in the same way that any ordinary child wouldn't" "be photographed by the paparazzi." "And it was a landmark case, because it established that the children of famous people should be treated in the same way as the children of ordinary parents." "A 3year-old suing me in court, I think, is wrong." "I think it's absolutely ridiculous." "The fact of the matter is, the j.K. Rowling case..." "I didn't lose the case." "She was just given the right to go to a trial." "But it was... you take on the world's richest woman, and it was David and goliath." "In France, they can't take a picture of my child." "It's illegal." "It's night and day, if you compare Paris to Los Angeles or New York." "Here, in the United States, probably any judge under the law is going to say, "hey, no, you don't get to follow them wherever."" "You know, the very first case out there... jacqueline Kennedy had a lawsuit against Ron galella because she was concerned for the safety of" "Caroline and young John." "And she was able to get it declared in New York that he had to stay a certain distance away from those children." "Since then, there's pretty much been a truce around presidential children." "But I think it's a little bit different from what children of celebrities experience." "I remember it was night, and it was really cold." "So, imagine the flashes on a baby that's, like, two months, three months old." "So, I told, "take her."" "And when they were taking my picture, they were all over, and they didn't care." "They pushed the baby." "It nearly went to the floor." "And then, of course, I charge after the photographer." "I made sure the baby was okay." "And I was just so angry." "My child could have had a really serious accident." "When you're two, three, on the street He could have stepped on her!" "That just ought to be illegal." "It's a little criminal." "There should be certain rules, I think." "I just feel like it's an invasion of privacy and that these kids really don't need that kind of attention at this point in their lives." "Even if their mom or their dad is the famous one, it doesn't give the paparazzi no right." "The children aren't nothing to do with it." "Yeah, but that's what everyone wants to see." "Everyone wants to see their kids." "Don't they?" "That's why they do it." "I suppose." " It's true." " Yeah." "It's kind of sad, but it makes me more interested in what the kids are doing because, like, that's the new generation of celebrities coming up." "The public has to take some degree of some responsibility and demand that these sort of photographs not be published," "that they put pressure..." "economic, political, social pressure... on media entities to say, "we don't want this." "We won't have it."" "Could you just let them be normal people?" "You should be normal." "You should be going home and enjoy yourself." "Disgusting what you're doing." "We are working." "Disgusting!" "Wow." "I took a total of 289 pictures today." "Here, atus weekly, we get about 750,000 to a million images a month." "Images are coming at us from all different angles." "And anybody whose eyes are working will see about a thousand images a day." "We should be asking ourselves, "what's happening in this photo?"" "Where it was taken, when it was taken... context is everything." "We are drenched and piled over with media coverage." "I'm not gonna say it's good for us or bad for us." "It is what it is." "And we're gonna have to make the best of it." "We watch tabloid-magazine television shows, and we buy the magazines, and we're invested in reality TV." "But we don't have an interconnectedness that is personal, where we're sitting in front of each other." "It's become the disease of our culture... celebrity." "♪ One cuts you down, one makes you fly ♪" "♪ so I'll take both sides, yeah ♪" "We are complicit in the driving of this industry." "It's something that we should think about." "We should analyze." "And what we need to actually enact change is action." "♪...believing you... ♪" "Be aware." "Don't be naive about where these pictures are coming from." "They sell it because there's a market for it." "Consider where you're going to place value." "We don't have to watch it." "We don't have to read it." "I've been guilty of it myself." "I try to be a little more conscious of it." "Like, if you're gonna have fun and see what's going on in the celebrity world, you should at least be a little more conscious about what's going on in the real world." "Somebody in the army or marines That's a celebrity." "Doctors that save lives, teachers, cops, firefighters." "You know?" "That's a celebrity, you want to really get down to it." "All I wanted when I got into this industry was make some money... make a lot of money... make history." "Tomorrow... wake up, get out there, do it again." "[ Introduction to U2's "desire"" "♪ Yeah ♪" " What are you doing to me?" " Let me at them." " They want out of there?" " No." "♪ Lover, I'm on the street ♪" "♪ gonna go where the bright lights and the big city meet ♪" "♪ with a red guitaret ♪" "On fire ♪" "♪ desire ♪" "♪ she's a candle burnin' in my room ♪" "What's your opinion on the paparazzi?" "Depends on the day." "♪ Over the counter with a shotgun ♪" "Tourists will soon be able to take a tour of Los Angeles courtesy of a member of the paparazzi." "For $150, two people can hang out with paparazzo Rick mendoza." "He's probably best known for suing pop star Britney Spears after she allegedly ran over his foot." "You can stand behind me but not hit me." "Like, Jesus Christ could come back after 2,000 years, forgive us of all our sins." "Somebody get a picture, put it on tmz." "The first comment would be, "Jesus is a fucking douchebag."" "You know what I mean?" "♪ desi-i-i-re ♪" "I'm just glad they ain't fucking with me." "That's all." "Can I run one over now?" "Is that against the law?" "Do I get... is there points for that?" "Like, if I took three or four of them out, especially the big guy... got to get at least 5 points for him, right?" "♪ She's the dollars ♪" "My wife got "papped" at JFK last night." "Well, they see a blonde with Louis vuitton bags." "They were right in her face." "She goes, "he was right in my face."" "Just bap-bap-bap-bap." "And then just walked away, like nothing happened." "♪...stealing hearts at a traveling show ♪" "♪ for love of money, money, money, money, money, money ♪" "♪ money, money, money, money, money ♪" "♪ and the fever getting higher, desi-I-I-re ♪" "♪ desi-i-i-re ♪" "♪ desi-i-i-re ♪" "♪ desi-i-i-re ♪" "All right." "♪ Desi-i-i-re ♪" "♪ desi-i-i-re ♪"