Hollywood Vs. the Paparazzi: It's War!
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 MONEY SHOT Flynet tracked Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz to Hawaii for a $300,000 payday |
| As recently as 15 years ago, there were just 25 or so "paps," as they're known in the business, plying their trade in Los Angeles. But the dramatic success of Us Weekly and its imitators—Star, Life & Style, In Touch Weekly—not to mention ever-metastasizing tabloid TV shows like Access Hollywood, has injected tens of millions of dollars into the sector and, in the process, fundamentally reshaped the contours of fame. Now, on any given day, 300 to 400 paps (the term is also a verb, as in, "Jessica is in Hawaii this week, let's pap her") roam the streets of L.A. on behalf of 20 or so agencies. Together they generate more than 120,000 images per week, which are pumped directly to the computer screens of tabloid photo editors via password-protected websites. (Even Radar has been known to indulge from time to time.) |
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