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Paparazzi /pɑːpəˈrɑːtsi/ (singular: (m) Paparazzo Italian: [papaˈrattso] or (f) Paparazza) is an Italian term used to refer to photojournalists who specialize in candid photography of athletes, celebrities, politicians, and other prominent people. Paparazzi tend to be independent contractors, unaffiliated with any mainstream media organization. Paparazzi photographers are often described as an unacceptable annoyance by celebrities.
Paparazzi are reported to be rude, pushy and ignorant. Many celebrities complain about the extent to which paparazzi invade their personal space, and some have even filed restraining orders against them.
The word "paparazzi" is an eponym originating in the 1960 film La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini. One of the characters in the film is a news photographer named Paparazzo (played by Walter Santesso). In his book Word and Phrase Origins, Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect word that describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito. As Fellini said in his interview to Time magazine, “Paparazzo… suggests to me a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging.” There is a similarity with the Italian word "pappataci" a name for a small mosquito. Those versions of the word's origin are nevertheless contested.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (/ˈstɛfəniː dʒʌrməˈnɑːtə/ STE-fə-nee jurr-mə-NAH-tə; born March 28, 1986), known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She began performing in the rock music scene of Manhattan's Lower East Side, and was signed with Streamline Records by the end of 2007. During her employment as a songwriter for the record company, her vocal abilities captured the attention of recording artist Akon, who signed her to his label Kon Live Distribution.
Lady Gaga came to prominence as a recording artist following the release of her debut album The Fame (2008), which was a critical and commercial success that topped charts around the world and included the international number-one singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". After embarking on the The Fame Ball Tour, she followed the album with The Fame Monster (2009), which spawned the worldwide hit singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone" and "Alejandro". The album's success allowed her to embark on the eighteen-month long Monster Ball Tour, which later became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. Her most recent album Born This Way (2011) topped the charts of most major markets and generated more international chart-topping singles, including "Born This Way", "Judas" and "The Edge of Glory". Besides her musical career, she involves herself with humanitarian causes and LGBT activism.
Kanye Omari West ( /ˈkɑːnjeɪ/; born June 8, 1977) is an American musician, film director and fashion designer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and Janet Jackson. His style of production originally used pitched-up vocal samples from soul songs incorporated with his own drums and instruments. However, subsequent productions saw him broadening his musical palette and expressing influences encompassing '70s R&B, baroque pop, trip hop, arena rock, folk, alternative, electronica, synthpop, and classical music.
West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008, and his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in 2010. West released a collaborative album, Watch the Throne with Jay-Z in 2011, which is the duo's first collaborative album. His five solo albums, all of which have gone platinum, have received numerous awards and critical acclaim. As of 2012, West has won a total of eighteen Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all-time. All albums have been very commercially successful, with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy becoming his fourth consecutive No. 1 album in the U.S. upon release. West has had 5 songs exceed 3 million in digital sales as of July 2011, with "Gold Digger" selling 3,086,000, "Stronger" selling 4,402,000, "Heartless" selling 3,742,000, "E.T." selling over 4,000,000 and "Love Lockdown" selling over 3,000,000 placing him third in overall digital sales of the past decade. He has sold over 30 million digital songs in the United States making him one of the best-selling digital artists of all-time.
Actors: Jane Seymour (actress), Anthony Hickox (actor), Richard Halsey (editor), Mark Thomas (composer), Michael Damian (writer), Michael Damian (director), Colleen Halsey (editor), Janeen Damian (producer), Claudiu Trandafir (actor), David Lipper (actor), Andrew Pleavin (actor), Viorel Sergovici (producer), Radu Badica (producer), Radu Badica (actor), Manuela Ciucur (actress),
Genres: Romance,Actors: Troy Waters (miscellaneous crew), Lindsay Lohan (actress), Stefón L.C. (miscellaneous crew), André Devantier (miscellaneous crew), Angelo Vacco (miscellaneous crew), Kyle A. Clark (producer), Theresa Russell (actress), Lee Holdridge (composer), John Arbuckle (miscellaneous crew), Joe Cappelletti (miscellaneous crew), Elizabeth Himelstein (miscellaneous crew), Zach Bradshaw (miscellaneous crew), Massi Furlan (actor), Lina Wong (producer), Charles Shaughnessy (actor),
Plot: On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, academy-award, academy-awards-ceremony, actor, actress, adultery, affair, alcohol, alcohol-abuseActors: June Daguiso (actor), June Daguiso (editor), Philip Stamper (actor), June Daguiso (director), June Daguiso (writer), Towanda Underdue (actress), Brandon Hendrickson (actor), Gita M. McCarthy (actress), Kazarr (writer), Kazarr (actor), Kazarr (producer), Jose Pineda (actor), Jimmy Cardano (actor), Allison Plourde (actress), George Ludden (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Pati Lauren (actress), Russell Duncan (actor), Russell Duncan (director), Russell Duncan (editor), Russell Duncan (producer), Russell Duncan (writer), Steve Royall (director), Tiffany Lowery (actress), Niki McElroy (actress), Monica Percich (actress), Peter DiVito (actor), Joan Farrell (actress), Chris Alan (actor), Grazi DiPaolo (actor), Marina Steele (actress),
Plot: Lost is a short film from Boomarang Entertainment in which a guy (Beaumont) returning to Los Angeles from touring Europe struggles to reconnect to his home life. Frustrated with the various situations that happen throughout the day he begins to psychotically lash out against them before he violently finally snaps. This film is basically about how much can go wrong in a person's life all at once. It starts out with his luggage being lost, and then ultimately ends up with every good thing in his life being lost as well. The film itself is interspersed with quick edits of what he's actually thinking rather than what he's saying, which gives an interesting insight into the character. The film itself is just a short, but manages to tell the story quite well. While there are a few amusing aspects to the film, it's mostly a serious story and leaves you really kind of feeling for the guy whose life has just spiraled out of control through no fault of his own.
Genres: Drama, Short, Thriller,Actors: Simon Phillips (actor), Tony Blackburn (actor), Vanessa Feltz (actress), Gino Picciano (actor), Lee Asquith-Coe (actor), Lee Asquith-Coe (actor), Joe Pasquale (actor), Keith Chegwin (actor), Frank Scantori (actor), Mick Slaney (actor), Dominic Burns (actor), Paul Atherton (producer), Richard Colton (editor), Andy Thompson (writer), Andy Thompson (writer),
Plot: Kill Keith: Volume 1. Keith 'Cheggers' Chegwin is a household name and has been at the top of his game for nearly 40 years. He's an all round entertainer and has lived with us via our TV screens on Swap Shop as kids through to GMTV as parents. He is undoubtedly a national treasure, and for nearly four decades has been much loved by viewers young and old. The year is 2010 and hidden away in a damp dark and blood stain cellar is a stranger, a man, a figure in the dark, someone we'd rather not know. He sits through the small hours torturing himself watching Swap Shop on fast forward over and over again. Cheggers Plays Pop posters decorate the cellar walls. The stranger moves slowly around his memorabilia filled shrine; terrifying equipment of torture fill the cellar together with several slabs of dead meat hanging from meat hooks. In the corner a man is bound and gagged in a cage while being subjected to archive TV clips of Keith Chegwin. The stranger is on an evil crusade. What is this unhealthy obsession with Keith Chegwin? Is the stranger plotting to kill our much loved Keith? Innocent victims from around the country slowly start to disappear. The damp cellar accrues more bodies. The news headlines build of reports of a serial killer. Cheggers continues his daily TV show while the nation lives in fear of evil roaming the country. Body parts begin to surface hundreds of miles from where they disappeared. How safe is Keith? How long before the stranger fulfills his obsessive desires?
Genres: Comedy, Horror,Actors: Robert Zemeckis (producer), Richard Matheson (writer), Steven Spielberg (producer), Alan D. Purwin (actor), James Rebhorn (actor), Shawn Levy (producer), Hugh Jackman (actor), Hope Davis (actress), Shannon Edwards (actor), Miguel Sandoval (actor), Phil LaMarr (actor), Anthony Mackie (actor), Brad Leo Lyon (actor), Shawn Levy (director), Danny Elfman (composer),
Plot: In the near future when people become uninterested in boxing and similar sports, a new sport is created - Robot boxing wherein robots battle each other while being controlled by someone. Charlie Kenton, a former boxer who's trying to make it in the new sport, not only doesn't do well, he is very deeply in the red. When he learns that his ex, mother of his son Max, dies, he goes to figure out what to do with him. His ex's sister wants to take him in but Charlie has first say in the matter. Charlie asks her husband for money so he can buy a new Robot in exchange for turning Max over to them. He takes Max for the summer. And Max improves his control of his robot. But when the robot is destroyed, they go to a scrap yard to get parts. Max finds an old generation robot named Atom and restores him. Max wants Atom to fight but Charlie tells him he won't last a round. However, Atom wins. And it isn't long before Atom is getting major bouts. Max gets Charlie to teach Atom how to fight, and the father and son bond strenghtens.
Keywords: absent-father, announcer, audience, bare-chested-male, based-on-short-story, bet, boxing, boxing-gym, boxing-match, boxing-movieActors: Peter Paul Basler (producer), Val Tasso (actor), Michael Monks (actor), Peter Paul Basler (writer), Michael Monks (producer), Peter Paul Basler (director), Stephen Blackehart (writer), Cyrus Ahanchian (producer), Damiano Tucci (producer), Damiano Tucci (actor), Eve Mauro (actress), Cary Anderson (producer), Cary Anderson (actor), Joe Lando (actor), Norma Maldonado (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Andrew Fierberg (actor), Frances Lozada (actress), Eva Dorrepaal (actress), James Morrison (writer), James Morrison (director), Daniel Fainman (actor), David Mandel (producer), Ivan Sandomire (composer), Erin Cunningham (actress), Valentina Arena (actress), Fernando Alicea (actor), Tara Rose Stromberg (actress), Callie Chaffin (actress), Caley Rose (actress), Rebecca Keren (actress),
Plot: Jane Desmond has moved from a small town to a big city to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. She spends her days going to auditions and her nights working in a diner, all the while fantasizing about her future stardom. But soon the painful reality of failure begins to close in on her.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Roberto Bolado (editor), Leonor Varela (actress), Jennifer Lopez (producer), Cristián de la Fuente (actor), Raúl Méndez (actor), Lorenzo O'Brien (producer), Rocío Verdejo (actress), Karl Braun (miscellaneous crew), Simon Fields (producer), Martín Altomaro (actor), Rebecca Jones (actress), Antonio Serrano (director), Antonio Serrano (producer), Suzanne Spangler (editor), Kalimba (actor),
Plot: An original production filmed in Mexico, "Como Ama Una Mujer" is inspired by the lyrics of Lopez' first Spanish-language album of the same name released earlier this year. At the end of each episode, Lopez herself will perform the theme song that inspired that episode. The five part mini-series tells the story of a woman's journey to find her true soul-mate, but with her glamorous life and professional success come heartbreak and betrayals that threaten to break her spirit.
Keywords: tv-mini-seriesActors: David Shire (composer), Neil Meron (producer), Brandy Norwood (actress), Scott Vickrey (editor), Craig Zadan (producer), Diana Ross (producer), Christine Ebersole (actress), Harvey Fierstein (actor), Carson Grant (actor), Roger Rees (actor), Brandy Norwood (producer), Diana Ross (actress), Guy Efrat (miscellaneous crew), Guy Efrat (miscellaneous crew), Darrin Dewitt Henson (actor),
Genres: Drama, Musical,