About the paparazzi

[evie]

This is a little out of date, but I just ran across an article in Entertainment Weekly, print issue for March 25, 2011. It concerns the way the paparazzi operate in Hollywood, and it's eye-opening and scary and disgusting.

I won't go into details about the article, in case you find it and want to read it. The important points for me were that the paps drive around Hollywood and other areas looking for celebrities who are out in public. The paps then chase whatever celebrity they spot and take pictures. The pap in the article knows the homes and cars of a lot of celebrities and has even memorized the license plates of their cars. The paps also hang out in big groups outside restaurants that celebrities are known to patronize. Some celebs must feel as if they are animals in a zoo, or animals being hunted in a jungle.

[book]

thanks evie i think i remember reading that article or heard someone mention it on another blog. also stephanie has posted more pics taken today of jake filming i guess going with what that article said since they are filming on a public street the paps can take their pictures

[Sasha4Jake]

Evie, I would really love to read this article, if you could post a scan, that would be wonderful!

[Sasha4Jake]

Aug 2, 2011 23:31:32 GMT -5 book said:

they are filming on a public street the paps can take their pictures

I had the same thought, but I also guess that the producer or studio doesn't really care, because otherwise they would have stopped it.

I remember when SATC 2 was filming in New York, everybody wanted to know what Carries wedding dress looked like.
But the pictures did not surface until close to the opening of the movie, not when the movie was shot. So they found a way of keeping paparazzis away.

Also to me it makes a difference if the celebrity is pictured doing his work (shooting a movie, giving a concert) or being followed while he is out in his private life.
For example: noone (or at least I) would consider it snoopy if someone took pictures of a singer giving a concert. That's his work, what he does, and fans and paps take pictures of it.
To me there is no difference to taking pictures of Jake shooting a movie or doing promotional interviews. That's his work.
It does stop at his way to and from work thought and I sure don't support paps snapping his pic in a restaurant or while he's jogging or taking his dogs for a walk.

[eausavage]

Well i'm very very appaled that some shites web and mangazine like E! praise how paparazzi works, and that some of them feeling proud of this so called job,
i think simply that the whole situation is very very unbereable, and disgusting, and i had have since a while the feelings that celebrities are treated most like animals to hunting than as human being,
i'm totally disgusted and the more i look to paprazzed pics the more i became angry...
I guess that the whole hollywood system should try to boycott those shity person, and those shity web site, and mangazine, for first E!.
I think that every single paparazzed pics are simply intrusive, the fact that a celebrity actor or singer, make his job this doesn't allowed the paparazzi or press to take pics, beside it's a photocall, which i can understand,
taking pics during a concert it's very very unfair, beside that photographer are there as was hired from the major or the singer itself, the most of the time the concert is protected from copyrigth as the video could be used for DVD, same for pics...
As far as i see i don't justify anything that paparazzi do, it's not matter if Gyllenhaal filming in a public place, in my POV as those scenes are part of a movie, paparazzi violates copyright of the movie as well...
so there's really really nothing that a paparazzo do that isin't bloody wrong...
That's why i felt always uncomfortable to spots Gyllenhaal's pics, as mostly are paparazzed...there's nothing that worth in looking at those pics, really....and that's the reson why i'm not intereted not in the pics, not in the Gyllenhaal business, where he live, who's his friends are, where he lunch, what car drive, where his familiy lived and so it goes...
It's too painfull for Gyllenhaal and of course for every single celebrities....

[monicabbm]

Yes, they are bad. They cross the line. I wish that there were limits. Don't take pictures at parties or at the home of celebrity, name-calling ...
But I do not see it stopping, they are giving to the public what the public wants. And I see that some celebrities also like paparazzi to sell his life to the public, especially when they are promoting a movie or an album or something.

[eausavage]

Maybe some just try to turn good something that have to stand anyway?
I don't balme those celebrities that use paparazzi pressure and attention back in return,
i think that we had the power to stop this, but we must have to change for real and stay consistet to our choises.
Personally i wouldn't mind to avoid paparazzi, gossip and mangazine, but i never take care to snooping into celebrities life, so to me it's easy.

[evie]

Aug 3, 2011 4:15:31 GMT -5 Sasha4Jake said:

Evie, I would really love to read this article, if you could post a scan, that would be wonderful!

Oh, I wish I could do that for you, MrsJG, but I'm technologically challenged--which means I don't know how to do it. A few thoughts occur to me: maybe the article is archived on the People website (I haven't checked this myself), or maybe Stephanie could find it for us and scan it. The article doesn't mention Jake, but we do talk about the paps a lot here, so it relates to him generally.

[eausavage]

I think that this article on firt intention maybe tryed to praise the paparazzi works?
To give to their works a sort of stature?Just guessing...as even People is mainly based on gossip.
But we well known, as fan of Gyllenhaal, how harmful paprazzi and media pressure are, i think that it's the same for every celebrity, has anyone spotted the pics and videos of Amy Winehouse?
Terrible paparazzi crowed her dead body while paramedics carrying her away in the ambulance....

[mintonl1]

I would hate to have the paparazzi following me everywhere!

[evie]

Aug 2, 2011 23:31:32 GMT -5 book said:

thanks evie i think i remember reading that article or heard someone mention it on another blog. also stephanie has posted more pics taken today of jake filming i guess going with what that article said since they are filming on a public street the paps can take their pictures

You're welcome, book. Yes, I agree, the producers are probably resigned to this picture taking in a public area. If they weren't, they'd find a way to protect the set and the cast from being observed. It's a trade-off: the filmmakers probably save money and at the same time get an authentic look and atmosphere when they shoot on location, and at the same time they expose what they're doing to public interference, including having everything and everyone being photographed by paps and amateurs. In the case of EOW, it must help enormously to film the action on location, since the story is about LA cops who do much of their job on the streets.

The stars may not like this exposure very much, but they can't deny that filming in public is bound to attract attention, and they probably learn to tolerate it and try not to let it distract them from the business at hand. Like you, I believe it's all a matter of degree. Snapping photos of a star at work in public is less offensive than photographing him/her doing personal errands, eating out, jogging, etc.--in other words, all the normal things we all do, with the expectation that we will not be harassed or interrupted by strangers. I've said it before: I always feel a bit guilty looking at those sorts of pictures, yet my obsession with Jake makes me look at them anyway, and enjoy it.

I draw the line at pictures or videos taken indoors, inside restaurants, stores, theaters, and similar places. While these are open to the public, they are not public spaces the same way streets and parks are. I recall a video from last year one time, when Jake was filmed heading for his car in a parking garage. He is walking up a ramp and he says clearly to the paps who are off camera, "You know you can't come up here." So there are some guidelines for where the paps can go, which some of them ignore, unfortunately.

[eausavage]

Aug 3, 2011 12:35:22 GMT -5 mintonl1 said:

I would hate to have the paparazzi following me everywhere!

I completely agree with you Laura!
Personally i think that it's too easy stated that the fame and been famous justified this attitude, surely is part of theri job, but a line should be fixed,
and even if taking pics on a movie set helps the movie to earn more money that's doesn't change that much,
what is wrong is wrong, and takig pics of everyday life of any celebrity is always wrong, there aren't some good or tolerable pics, and other untolerable, all are the same.All means snooping inside a stranger life.
Just my tow of course.

[jfaulkin]

I know we all agree that we don't like the pap much...I know there was a time when movies studio took great lengths to cover or hide what the stars did and only released what they wanted, That is because they hide what bad things that the star did. When there things started to come to light some celebrities use it to there advantage and they got the attention they wanted but it left the common folk wanted more...so the pap was born. I know we have mention before that celebrities can and will sneak around with out the pap knowing and seem fine with it. Other celebrities NEED the attention or they would have not career. This is such a sore spot. It may never be fixed until something bad happens

[eausavage]

I completely share your opinion Jessica,
good point about that old time, the golden Hollywood era, were studios and producers try to hide everything and try to make the actor appear as perfect and flawless, and i hope that this slow daown as honeslty it's too much to stand.
I also have to point about the name, just a short note, that the name paparazzo/i was taken from the last name of an italian romans photographer that during the 60ies-la dolce vita- was used to takes pics of celebrities walking around Rome and shown finally the actors in their common daily life, he got pics also of Jaqueline Kennedy, Maria Callas, so i dare to say the main 60ies jate set, not just actors.

[jfaulkin]

thanks maria for the info. I didn't know where the got the name from.