PRIME Premiere
Ziegfeld Theater, 7:30pm premiere
October 20, 2005
Well… everyone was calm and well behaved at this premiere, no?
Uma was supposed to be on Letterman, so a lot of shooters went over there to get her arriving/departing…using the time from their two hour break. Subsequently, Madonna was the talent on the show, and she proceeded to do an outside skit with Letterman, which involved the two of them riding horses up 54th St. This ran longer than the two hours most people allotted for their time away from the Ziegfeld.
Once this insanity at Letterman concludes, everyone runs back to the theater.
Now the fun begins.
Sylvain has the list and proceeds to cross off anyone whose name hasn’t been accountable for the last two hours. He then begins the process of ‘re-writing’ the list, shuffling everyone accordingly. But it seems that some people were shooting Letterman, some in the annex, some checked back in then left again. So it got quite confusing very quickly.
While this is going on, people are getting irate with their ‘new’ status on the list. Tempers flare even more when Anthony and Dennis get into it. Personally, I don’t remember the catalyst for this tryst, but it went something like this…
… I make enough money
…the hell with the list
…you see my name and photos out their more than yours
…I don’t need to do 10 events a day
…you couldn’t do what I do
…look at how you dress
…you’re a tired man
…you’re an angry man
…let’s do this
Now the two of them drop their gear and look like their going to square off. As the volume reaches a fevered pitch, security from the adjacent building come out the squelch the commotion. PR, security, fans, photographers and pedestrians are now all focused on this. (Not good for our image by the way). Everything eventually calms down, but not for at least 5-8 minutes of heated actions.
As for the actual event, everyone posed, Uma was bouncing around and looking up a lot, Streep arrived from the wrong end of the carpet, but in the end, almost everyone got a shot.
5 comments:
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"Why was Sylvain in charge of the list anyway?"
He should not be in charge of the list. This guy shoots inside and should stay inside! This A-hole list paparazzi always take up a front row spot when he wants to shoot outside with us. He lies about his assignmet with the post to get preferential treaatment inside. When he decides that he has a bad spot inside, he comes outside and slithers into a front row spot claiming the publicist wants him there, NOT TRUE!!! If first come first serve outside and we should stand together and defend this rule. Jennifer G., Jamie M. and even Matt B. can respect the list in most cases. Lets not fight with each other about spot, we should fight this scum from taking a spot from the ones that deserve it!
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Posted by T_Bickle to Light 'em Up! at 10/23/2005 05:28:08 PM
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A few more things about Sylvain G....many times I shoot with him inside, if he doesn't have a spot, he will whine and whine and whine like a girl to get a publicist to take out a photographer Sylvain G. points out to give him a spot. This is the scum's tactic because he is so lazy that he won't come early to get a spot. BTW, I can see his images online, his photos are terrible.
Posted by T_Bickle to Light 'em Up! at 10/23/2005 05:46:15 PM
ive never had a problem with dennis
perhaps there are other factors involved?
shoot first, speaking of that particular day, the same guy gets into an argument at 2 diff events with 2 different people. coincidence? i think not...
i havnt been doing this for 20 years, neither has dennis. from what ive seen hes a nice guy, but aggressive, which is what the job sometimes demands, but ive never seen him call anyone a c*nt...
im working on that documentary, so stay tuned :)
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