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It's a really weird, scary feeling.

You're disoriented.

You can't see in front of you.

It's like it's false imprisonment.

I can't get away. I can't get out. I
can't get out of its door because these

guys are blocking the door. I can't get
to my car.

When I'm in my car, they're surrounding
my car.

I can't see. They flash light bulbs.
It's nighttime. Now I can't. My vision

impaired.

It's hot. Bye, stress.

Why do you ask me? City's gone to my
head. I don't care

now, cause you don't care now.

Cause you don't know my name.

Yeah, yeah, you don't know my name.

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.

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 PR 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.

Hollywood.

If you look in the magazines and on all
these websites and TV shows, you're

seeing 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.

In the days of Hedda Hopper, at the
premiere of something, you know, the

would hire photographers, but there was
gracefully waiting, may I take a

picture?

It was all agreed upon.

Clients would walk in the 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.

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.

Mark 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. In shorts

and shit.

Mark built... The runway.

Literally. Hammer nails. From home
people with his friends. Because to get

contractor to do it, 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

other making the vows. The people were
there putting here our vows. Till this

day, I'm not sure if she said yes
because.

Did you? You did, right? We have to look
at the tape.

Technically, you can get out of this.
You know, because I never heard it. But

that place wasn't even sacred. Like,
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

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, the guys from
Wire Image, where you see them at all

shows. You kind of become friends with
them. You know, they're not looking for

bad shot. You know, they're looking for
something interesting.

He said, cool, no problem.

Then you got the stalker Nazis, you
know, who go through anything to get a

who sit there like they're eating lunch
with a bag with a big camera in it and

whip it out at any, like, moment's
notice.

And then some of the worst offenders are
just the creepos with the cell phones.

They're acting like they're looking for
a number, you know, 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 badass.

You know, it's like I'm in the Boca
burger section, like, fuck!

You know, I'm like that, you know, those
people suck.

People with mobile phones and, you know,
pictures of them, you know, you can't

go anywhere without being photographed,
basically, now.

You have to be very, you have to accept
it, you have to be aware of it, and you

have to behave accordingly.

Now the regular citizens have become
paparazzi.

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, were called palaces.

And we would sit in the dark and we
would watch these huge, larger -than

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

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 a 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

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 and print, we have InTouch
and Life & Style. There's gossip blogs

like TMZ, Perez Hilton, D -Listed, and
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 that one. Pretty hot.

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.

It's as much as $250 ,000.

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

show, so it's that whole cycle.

Part of the game is to provoke a
reaction.

If that thing had happened, somebody
would take a swing at them.

You know, or start pushing or screaming.

That's a better shot. Makes more money.

They usually bring up ex -girlfriends,
ex -wives and 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

I don't know you, dude.

You're going to 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 worth this

that. And if they do provoke you, they
have won.

And you have lost. Me, on the other
hand.

Yeah.

Mark doesn't have as much of a tolerance
for that stuff, so we try not to put

him in those situations too often.

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 jailbound.

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.

And it's frightening.

There is a uniquely American sport
called Grand Decide.

We build someone up to spectacular
heights in order to tear them down. It's

vicious cycle. You build up, you break
her down, and the next thing you know,

this person comes back again.

Next thing you know, break them down
again.

You know, you just sit back and watch.

I know it's only a couple days in, but
they say it's going to go number one.

That

moment

of her just looking in the camera and
shaving her head was such a powerful

moment.

Fuck you, God. I mean, there was
something about it that was, fuck you.

know, I mean, she had enough.

She broke in front of all of our eyes,
and then people captured that, but it

really bad 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

This is a mess.

Our celebrity images are supposed to be
seamless, but when those cracks open, I

mean, it's kind of dirty, but it's also
fascinating.

I am on a drug. It's called Shirley
Sheen. But then, you know, if the 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.

Great. You know you shouldn't look, but
you're just curious.

Come on, Mr. P.

I'm Darren 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

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. You
know, I've been to Bosnia on the front

line getting shot at in full metal
jacket.

I've won Press Photographer of the Year
in the United Kingdom two years in a

row. I've won all the awards you could
imagine being a photographer.

The fact of the matter is, you know,
awards don't pay the mortgage.

I saw celebrity as being the huge moment
of the future.

With MrPaparazzi .com, I embraced it,
and I'm still embracing it.

Celebrity isn't going to go away. It's
been around since time began.

You know, Julius Caesar was famous.
Napoleon was famous.

But they were famous in different ways.

The 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.

Celebrity today means anyone who's
famous. Now, you can be famous, you

guy who was in a balloon and floated
across the country.

Isn't that a star?

I mean, is Jeffrey Dahmer a star?

The real name of the game is fame.

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 is really
transformed into anyone can become a

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 in

he can still become famous.

It's this idea that if you have talent
and if you make that talent visible,

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

doctor or a nurse or an architect or a
photographer. No, they just wanted to be

either rich or famous.

You know, Jersey Shore is a huge success
because we're not jobs 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 -youth 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... 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

We're not these serious people, and
everyone's just gotten so used to all

actors taking themselves so seriously
when it's really just a joke industry.

It's supposed to be fun.

There's nothing wrong with the Kim
Kardashian, all of those people, if

how they choose to make a living, more
power to them.

It's not my, my line of work is
different.

I wanted 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,

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 of my
clothes, and he took me elsewhere and

dropped me off.

But it's just gotten exponentially worse
ever since then.

Get out of my way, asshole.

The paparazzi life is like the lottery.

You might want to take a day off, but
that might be the day when something

happens.

Campbell, 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

Los Angeles, California, interact with
celebrities, 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 that they were
shooting, start some kind of

confrontation so that the other one
could take the photograph.

We sat down with Fellini, Marcello
Mastroianni, and we talked about what we

done today, what we had taken.

And he took notes.

When he did La Dolce Vita, the
protagonist, the photographer of the

film, wanted to give him a name, but he
could have called him Gilberto or

Antonio Franco.

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.

Ron Gallello 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.

Age has been good to Ron because he got
a lot of very bad press.

He was seen to be, you know, a parasite,
and his photography is 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

haunt. And most of the time, instead of
celebrating something about you, a lot

of the time it's 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 steals a shot.

You're about the rudest people I've ever
run into.

Thank you.

No wonder people come up and clap you.

He threw the finger at me. I don't blame
him. You're an asshole.

That's exactly right. You know, they use
it as a big ghost.

Oh, paparazzi bad.

Well, you took the picture and they
wrote about it, but you shouldn't have

the picture.

Well, okay, but they still sold
magazines and you still read it. Hey, I

question. Who do you think the people
hate more, the parking enforcement or

paparazzi?

You guys. Really?

Yeah.

I think it's really easy to blame the
paparazzi because there are actual

right there that we can pinpoint as the
cause.

There are photos of the paparazzi
getting in the celebrities' faces,

writers and editors are completely
unseen, and we certainly don't want to

ourselves.

I think that paparazzi has a place.

Forty percent of many of the magazines
have paparazzi photos.

They're an important part of the
industry.

I want to get away.

I want to get away.

The men in the doctor's office and
they're all there and there's no men

me. That's the one I'll go for first.

Either OK or Awesome. I would pick that
up before Sports Illustrated.

Bryce Elton, the PMJ, and OK Magazine.
Yes, I do read them all.

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

to be ongoing, that's when I buy it.

Good gossip, basically.

Confidential goes 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 the 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.

You know, I boiled my baby in the oven
this morning, things like that. I mean,

terrible things, and there were people
who believed it.

And our damage control was just ignore
it.

It'll 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.

Confidential became extremely popular in
a very short amount of time. I mean,

upwards of five million copies a month
at its height.

But all of these stars, including
Maureen O 'Hara and Liberace and Dorothy

Dandridge, filed suit against
Confidential for the various things that

about them. I don't feel I've ever done
anything wrong.

robert harrison agreed to basically stop
covering the stars and then the stars

in the studios would stop suing him so
he sold it off i think it's a part of

americana i think it's going to live
long after i'm gone

they're

so funny i mean You know, you're never
going to get the bald looking.

Looking for all those sort of fun little
behind -the -scenes kind of images that

are going to make a reader feel like
that they were really there.

Someone stepping on someone's train,
someone greeting someone saying hi,

Kidman and Keith Urban going out on
their date night, things like that.

From this, we pick a few hundred
pictures, and I would say in terms of

in the magazine, we have room for six
consecutive pages of award show

Now, if something really juicy happens
at the show, you never know, it could

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

Portman, even though it's really cute.

So it's really just a giant puzzle.

Last week, it was 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 Jan Wenner, the
founder of Rolling Stone.

It has been a monthly, a bi -weekly, and
a weekly.

They have changed its format, its tone,
who they're covering. He tried

everything, and none of it worked.

It seems like people was invincible.

Around 2002, Bonnie Fuller took over Us
Weekly, and she changed the face of

celebrity reporting.

A lot of the magazines would feature
these glamorous shots of celebrities,

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

human side of them, too.

And so we created a section called Stars
Are Just Like Us.

Bonnie snapped up those shots of
celebrities taking out their garbage,

up their kids.

It was a home run for us.

I guess I was a pioneer because it was
the first time that paparazzi photos had

been presented that way.

She definitely has the good hair and
then the pretty and hello.

Everybody wants to know who it is and,
you know, 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

they love it.

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 years straight.

Try every day. And a soap opera.

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 of a 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 triangles of
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and

Jennifer Aniston, and also with Liz
Taylor and Eddie Fisher and Debbie

in 1958.

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's still magazine covers

now, years later, saying, you know,
Jennifer Aniston can't find love.

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

whatever. But that has been the role in
which she has been slotted.

In the early days of Us Weekly becoming
successful, People magazine began to

feature more of these breakups and who's
dating whom.

And Us wanted to scoop people at
whatever cost so that they could claim

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.

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. It really
escalated the photo price for all

Even small photos inside the magazine,
they still wanted to be the only ones

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, you know, near 24 -hour
surveillance.

Once you spot a car, you look at the
last three numbers of the license plate

match with the car.

Nikki Hilton, Black Range Rover.

Paparazzi know all the license plate
numbers. They know all the tailplane

numbers of their planes.

They pay people off.

Valet parkers, the doorman at hot
restaurants and clubs.

They have a network of informants.

Today, on the other hand, the character
is afraid of the photographer.

Today, the paparazzo is violent.

The work is becoming a work of vultures,

not of photographers.

When you know you see one, you've got to
deal with one guy, and you hope and

pray that he doesn't start calling all
his friends, you know?

Within 15 minutes, there are five other
people who 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.

There's no kind of structure.

There's no type of regulations.

It's just, 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 at the helicopter.

You're in your backyard and the
helicopter's coming that low and you

running in and it's like a stupid game
of, you know.

Have you ever tried to reason?

Have I tried to reason? Oh my God, have
I tried to reason?

I have.

I've tried to reason with them. I've had
talks about, come on, there's better

things that you can do. You can achieve
your dream. I mean, it's stupid.

It's just gotten out of control.

There's certain instances where the
paparazzis are going to just overexcite

themselves.

Cameras get broken. People get hurt.

The aggression, the hits, the elbows.

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 this photograph 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.

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 sell you light. They
pump gas, too.

They're still a love triangle.

It's degrading the 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

angle, and it's terrible.

And it was everywhere, and they did
everything to make me look like I was

peed.

Sally likes pie. 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

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 that.

Whether it be people, us, in style,
glamour, vogue, they all portray women

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, aristocratic goddesses.

But control was the name of the game.

And the whole apparatus grew up around
that need.

The studio system determined which movie
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 of 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

going to 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 color, the

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

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
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. Word passed and
got a new haircut, sent to my phone.

TMZ, just fascinating. I'm obsessed with
TMZ .com.

In 2006,

TMZ broke the story of Mel Gibson's
arrest, which drove a tremendous amount

traffic to the site.

Since then, TMZ has grown into an
incredibly well -read site.

He then went on.

who used the base product, this raw
footage from the website, and then came

with a way that he could repackage it on
television.

Today on TMZ.

Finally, Snooki is good.

Nicole, you're amazing at WrestleMania.

You did a great job. If you ask around
and you say, why do you come to TMZ?

Increasingly, what you're going to 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's

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 against the
Sun newspaper in Britain a long time ago

in the 80s, which...

Drove me crazy. Went on for a year and a
half. They said that I slept with

underage rent boys, gave them drugs,
urinated on them. I mean, it made my

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

put it on the Internet, it goes
worldwide, so you're forever denying

They discourage you from going after the
tabloids. Like a lawyer will be like,

it's going to cost you so much money,
and it's going to take so much time, and

it's not going to make a difference, and
nobody's going to care about the story

tomorrow, and they convince you to just
deal with it.

When all of a sudden you're hearing
rumors that are not true on a CNN crawl,

that's sort of go, this is CNN.

You know, 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, you know, 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

-hour news cycle.

So we're constantly trying to figure out
how to put out a fire.

A perfect example is Tiger Woods.

He didn't say anything. He issued a
statement that he had, quote,

and then he disappeared for months.

Women came out of the woodwork, and it
ended up being a giant scandal because

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

a very tightly controlled image.

As soon as the scandal broke, you know,
a watch company or Nike doesn't want

their name affiliated with this sort of
behavior.

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.

Like this one. 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 co -star.

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 that

celebrities can't control.

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 going to have to fix that some
other 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 the wrinkles.

Paparazzi shots need a lot more TLC than
a better photo that we get from a, you

know, a great photographer. That's
definitely a lot less work.

And let's help her a little bit because
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's in trouble, that image will
appear, and it'll look like it was shot

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

Renée Zellweger is probably one of the
toughest shots to get because she

really come out and be seen as often as
we'd like her to be seen.

I enjoy making her smile and laugh and
making her feel good, you know?

Their life is about, you know, seeing
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 know, 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.
Paparazzis do not keep your career

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 because

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

other is something artistic and
beautiful, and both are in agreement

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've become
an enormous commodity in this country.

And news is a business.

Newspaper entities need to sell papers.

Websites want traffic.

Television networks want ratings.

Increasingly, the way to get that is to
have an entertainment component.

Record -setting weekend. The tune of $30
million.

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

than the security breach at the airport.

It's bigger news.

Why?

Nick Patton Walsh joining us live from
Kabul, Afghanistan. Many thanks.

She made sure he got the message. Wait
until you hear about Charlie Sheen. The

concept of hard news has really changed.
A lot of what used to be

considered tabloid is now mainstream.

Frankly, they stop telling important
news about the world and they just tell

gossip. Maybe you need it. Like
sometimes you can only watch so many

somebody's gotten stabbed like all day
long. And you know what I mean? Like

there's a flood here. There's an
earthquake there. Like maybe you kind of

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 infotainment, 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.

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

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 mean, say what you will about Sarah
Palin. She has been brilliant in

manipulating her image.

What an adrenaline wreck. I think
there's real indecision over whether or

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.

You know, 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

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 newsgatherers.

This is the Paris Hilton story, okay?

Hold on a second. I'm going to make a
point. We're not covering this, all

Yeah, exactly. I'm done with the Paris
Hilton story. 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 that

morning.

I think at this point it's getting to be
supply leading demand because, I mean,

look at how many magazines there are
now.

Like, do we really need that?

But people keep picking them up.

I'll walk through an airport and
there'll be three out of four people

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 because I can get
sucked into it. I can spin.

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

got their picture all over the magazine,
so 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 magazine, 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, you know, I kind of asked for this
life and kind of knew that this was

part of it that comes with it.

But, I mean, the same way, you know, the
magazines make money, they make money

for me. You know, they get the word out
that I have a record out there.

Put me in some light that hopefully
shines and people connect to and make

want to hear my record.

There's a price to fame.

Are you willing to pay it? Yes. 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,

like two fools, we would walk down the
street with the umbrella in front of me,

so the photographers would not take a
picture. She did not want a picture

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, he
was in a car.

Do you remember when we were in the
trunk of somebody's car trying to get

In Gina's car?

We were just laying in the trunk. I was
like, when did this happen? I wanted to

go shopping.

I'm in the trunk with my girlfriend and
I'm like, this is your life?

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, you know, 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
know she doesn't have a human touch.

not what I'm desperate to be like you
and you and you

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. You know,
the reality, whether it's the Paris

Hiltons or the girls that don't have an
issue with it, the Jersey Shores, all of

those television shows, there should be
an agreement. But that doesn't mean that

everybody else is a free for all. What
could any guy want more than this?

A lot of the time, they're told where to
be and when.

It becomes kind of a game.

I'll just either tip you or they'll give
an information out indirectly what the

client won't even know just to build
more hype. They're supposed to. That's

their job.

You know, Twitter has become another
source.

One time, we

had a source that was giving us
specific, incredible information. It was

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, you
know, 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. 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, but
when you're photographing me in a

public place, 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

to charities that 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

massive disincentive to the paparazzi to
chase after them because they're not

going to 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

cars, and then you're off.

The main car runs a yellow light.

Everybody behind that person, 10 cars,
is 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 going to stop or you're going to

crash into the car.

Nicole Richie, you know, was chased by a
paparazzi and got in a car accident.

Thank God her children are 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

by photographers.

Several hours after the accident, French
emergency services were still at the

scene cutting people from the wreckage.

This is not a time for recriminations,
but for sadness.

However, I would say that I always
believed the press would kill her in the

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

ruthless individuals to risk everything
in pursuit of Diana's image, has blood

on his hands today.

Well, if the publishers had 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 down.

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 was ultimately

supplying that money.

When Princess Diana died, there was this
sense of, wow, this is going to change

everything. What was sort of the
immediate impact in England?

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 are

join the family, the media interest in
them and the intrusion is escalating

again.

On the big day of viewing parties at
London's iconic Trafalgar Square. The

moment the world was waiting for. The
first real chance at the royal wedding.

Three minute walk into history. A
billion tears of eyes. On a fairy tale

recalling living and breathing.

Echoes of Diana's I do.

It reminds me so much of Diana. We have
got a new video.

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.

We stopped with the motorcycles, we went
there, we helped to get out of the car,

and then we took the pictures.

But this is a human sense.

After Diana's events, they were
practically cancelled.

You wouldn't want to be called a
paparazzi.

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 of a 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 going to make money off of it.

They're not going to stop.

If you're a photographer, take a decent
photograph. Go and learn your trade.

Make some beautiful photographs like
Irving Penn or something 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

again.

Paparazzi are doing journalism.

They are gathering information.

They are 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 risque. 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

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, that's
just bull.

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 and more
laws and more laws.

To see 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

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.

The more intimate shots are the ones
that people criticize.

Oh, 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

publications, the TV networks, the
websites and blogs.

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

much money to be made in it. You can't
even argue with somebody about the

of it.

You know, 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. You know, he's

person. And it's worrisome. You know,
it's really worrisome.

Stop. Stop.

Stop. How's your day going, Brittany?

Stop.

You ever flash these lights at my kid
again, I'm going to push your face to

back of your head. Hey, back, get back,
back, back, back. That includes you.

Yeah, I know, I know.

Stop it.

It's yours.

Stop taking pictures.

Stop it.

I'm not kidding.

I don't care if you want to put it on my
face.

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 no

one should be.

Leave children out of it. They didn't
ask to be famous, and they have their

rights, too.

You know, the kids ought to be doing the
suing.

And that might be a way legally to get
some traction on it.

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

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 three -year -old suing me in
court, I think, is wrong. I mean, I

think it's absolutely ridiculous.

The fact of the matter is, the J .K.
Rowling case, I didn't lose the case.

was just given the right to go to a
trial. But it was, you know, you take on

world's richest woman, and, you know, 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

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
truth 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 my mom, take her. And when
they were taking my picture, they were

over. They didn't care. They pushed the
baby. They pushed the baby. It nearly

went to the floor.

And then, of course, I charged after the
photographer.

I made sure the baby was okay. And I was
just so angry.

My child could have had it.

A really serious accident.

I mean, when you're two or 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 mum or their dad is the
famous one, it doesn't give them the

paparazzi no right. The children have
nothing to do with it. Yeah, but that's

what everyone wants to see. Everyone
wants to see their kids, don't they?

but they do it. I suppose.

True. Yeah.

It's kind of sad, but it makes me more
interested in what the kids are doing

because that's a new generation of
celebrities coming up.

The public has to take some degree of
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.

No, we are working.

Wow.

I took a total of 289 pictures today.

Here at Us Weekly, we get about 750 ,000
to a million images a month.

The 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

When it was taken?

Context is everything.

We are drenched and piled over with
media coverage.

I'm not going to say it's good for us or
bad for us.

It is what it is.

And we're going to have to make the best
of it.

We watch tabloid magazine television
shows, and we buy the magazines, and

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.

We are complicit in the driving of this
industry.

It's something that we should think
about, we should analyze, and what we

to actually enact change is action.

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 going to have fun

and, you know, 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
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

money, make history.

Tomorrow, wake up, get out there, do it
again.

What's your opinion on the

paparazzi?

Like, Jesus Christ could have come back.

After a few thousand 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?

Desire.

Someone's glad they ain't fucking with
me, that's all.

Can I run one over now? Is that against
the law? Did I get their point for that?

If I pick three or four, especially the
big guy, I gotta get like five points

from him, right?

My wife got papped at JFK last night.

Well, if you're blonde with a Louis
Vuitton bag, they were right in her

She goes, he was right in my face.

And then just walked away like nothing
happened.