Basic Instinct 2
NY premiere, Lowes Lincoln Theaters
Sharon Stone looked great, red dress, gold jacket, big smiles.
Now we all know
But it seemed a lot of people had a tough shoot. She was moving around and favored one side over the other.
As for the rest of the talent (and I use the term lightly), it was quite lacking. Joan Collins, Carol Alt, Maggie Rizer, an uncooperative Usher, Beth Ostrosky... jeesh!
Reports say at
LOS ANGELES, CA, United States (UPI) -- Detroit`s Kid Rock is reportedly being investigated for an alleged attack on paparazzi and a fan outside a Los Angeles nightclub.
Video company owner Rachelle Kaplan told Thursday`s New York Post that Rock and his buddies pounded two of their employees who were staking out a bar in the Roosevelt Hotel just after 2 a.m. Wednesday.
'They stole their cameras, their bags, everything, ' she told the newspaper. 'They just threw it in the back of Kid Rock`s limo and drove off. '
A fan who was waiting to get an autograph was allegedly punched, kicked and left on the ground. The fan was further attacked by people leaving the club, Kaplan said, and taken away in an ambulance.
Kaplan said a complaint has been filed with police and an investigation is under way.
The Post said Kid Rock`s camp did not return calls seeking comment.
Lucky Number Sleven premiere.
Ziegfeld Theater
I can tell you about this premiere... but I’d rather keep it a SURPRISE.
Is Lindsay coming to the premiere? NO! >>>>>>SURPRISE!
Is Gisele going to walk the red carpet? NO! >>>>>>SURPRISE!
Today, we get a tent but less space to work. SURPRISE!
And for those who are curious about what SURPRISE means... we asked the PR guy who else was going to arrive, to which he responded "It's a SURPRISE". WOW! HONEST AND FOR TRUE?
I LOVE SURPRISES! Like the surprise of having a premiere with almost no celebrities, with 40 people jammed into a press pen like cattle, four rows deep in some places, waiting for hours, with every idiot in the world walking on the carpet and having a whimsical PR person inform the press of a pending "Surprise".
And that "Surprise" guest... none other than Bruce Willis... and who gives a darn. (I personally was hoping for Bob Balaban).
It's nice to see that Spike Lee put out the extra money for a tent. Not.
I know its first day of spring... and it's a blamy 30 degrees. There are 50+ shooters outside in the Ziegfeld Wind Tunnel. Some of them waiting since
Now I’m sorry... but did I miss something on the tip sheet? Jodie Foster, Denzel Washington and Clive Owen (tough sales as is). Do those names warrant such an early turnout?
The tip sheet also promised Naomi Campbell, Eva Mendes, Jay Z (no shows on the rug)...but we did get Rev. Al Sharpton and Russell Simmons (please read as sarcasm).
As for the set-up, 2 sides shooting towards each other, 2-3 rows deep...and one section with posters as a backdrop. Unfortunately, they put a 12ft high light stand in the photo area, taking up 2-3 spaces. And in the frenzy and the wind, the light kept shifting onto some of the shooters in the corner. I could only assume it was a horrible backlight (see photo).
Photo by G.
3 Needles Premiere
If you're going to waste my Saturday night, could you make it worth while at least?
There were only two names on the list for this event, Chloe Sevigny and Lucy Lu.
We only get Lucy, in a solid black coat, at night, outside, with a solid black background.
We asked her to show us the fashion... and she acted as if she went deaf. Completely ignored our pleas.
She posed inside without the coat... but people arrive at the MOMA for this premiere around
For a crap photo of Lucy Lu?!@!*@!
Sad days my friends...
Sad days indeed...
Angelina Jolie and honey Brad Pitt seem pretty happy as they tour the entire European continent. They are a bit freer to move as fans are much less aggressive than in the states, but it appears the aggressive shutterbugs are starting to take a toll.
It's clear that Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie are beginning to lose patience with Europe's Paparazzi.
Earlier reports had the couple considering a lawsuit to try to tone down the snappers, but if it has been filed - it hasn't worked. The photogs are everywhere and are beginning to wear on what appears to be expectant dad Brad's last nerve.
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As he was hounded earlier this week with adorable son in Berlin ET reported on its broadcast edition that he is being mobbed "everywhere he goes."
After one stop Pitt finally gave up and took son Maddox, 4, back to the car.
As he placed his adopted child in a car the video showed a clearly frustrated Pitt as he scolded the photogs - "You guys are out of control."
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The love it in Europe - but Will the paparazzi drive the couple back to the states?
Come on back guys... we'll play nice. I Swear! LOL!
V For
So this was a debacle...
You had to be on WB's list to even get near the 4th floor theater (via the secured elevators).
And if you weren't on the list, you had the wonderful opportunity of shooting in the lobby by the elevators (which was my position).
This wasn't THAT bad... we got most of the talent (no Natalie), but everyone else was co-operative. Keanu ran by quick, but you could get a shot, Hugo,
I also heard some of the talent passed by the press area upstairs. Let us know....
Many paparazzi will be working all night, hoping to snap the equivalent of last year's photo of Oscar-winner Hillary Swank eating a veggie burger at In 'n' Out Burger in her navy Guy Laroche gown.
"We're not expecting a big scoop or a new couple," said Frank Rohmer, owner of X17, a celebrity photo agency, which sells its pictures to all the big entertainment and gossip magazines. "We're trying to get good shots that no one else gets."
X17, which is sending out all 40 of its photographers to work, won't assign any to the majestic red carpet outside Kodak Theatre, where the Academy Awards are held, because this agency focuses solely on candid paparazzi-type shots.
"The shots we're looking for are the real ones," Rohmer said, "where you can see the happiness or the sadness."
Photographers from X17 are stationed outside in various spots in Los Angeles, such as outside the "Vanity Fair" after-party and around The Four Seasons, The Bel-Air and Chateau Marmont.
"Our guys tend to work in groups or teams," said Kelly Davis, vice president of X17. "The more people you have, the more chance you have getting the shot. They can get different angles and cover different exits."
So what's the dream shot from Oscars Night 2006?
"Reese Witherspoon with the Oscar at the end of the night, coming home," Rohmer said.
Rohmer didn't want a picture of a perfect-looking Witherspoon at 8 p.m., because the goal is to capture "the real Reese Witherspoon."
"Our job is to get the people with no makeup or as little makeup as possible, at night, tired but happy," he said. "The greatest shots from the Oscars are people late at night or the next morning."
Frank Griffin, who co-owns the photo agency Bauer-Griffin, says that magazines are more interested in photos from the red carpet than paparazzi shots when it comes to Oscar night. He even goes so far as to call it "not a big night."
"Everybody just wants the full-length frocks and jewelry, it sells magazines," said Griffin, who assigned two of his photographers to work the red carpet.
The city may be crawling with celebrities and photographers waiting to take pictures of them, but that doesn't matter if the magazines don't aren't going to run those types of photos.
"The paparazzi don't decide what's published," said Griffin, whose agency's photos can always be found in all the major entertainment and gossip magazines.
Some of the most successful paparazzi take Oscar night off, Griffin said, because so many photographers come in from out of town to try to get celebrity shots. Griffin estimates that 200 to 300 photographers come to Los Angeles in hopes of taking that special shot or as he puts it, "get their wings."
"They all go park outside the Ivy," said Griffin, referring to a restaurant popular with A-listers.
Photographers from Pacific Coast News, a two-year-old British photo agency that has a center of operations in Los Angeles, also take Oscar night off because the agency was unable to get media accreditations for the red carpet or for any of the big parties.
"We are forced to ignore it because of the stupid restrictions," said Matt Carrington, senior photo editor at Pacific Coast News, an agency which sells its photos to a number of magazines, including OK! This will be first the first time in five years that Carrington, who used to work with Splash News, won't be working on Oscar night.
"One, they won't allow us to [photograph it], even though we are totally legitimate," he added. "Two, the parties have so much security, we can't be roving around. We made the conscious decision to let it go."
Carrington said he doesn't feel that it's worth it to stake out In 'n' Out Burger in case of any of the stars feel like a snack.
"That was pure luck," said Carrington, referring to the photographers getting that shot last year. "That was a one-off."
PARIS, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- In France, ordinary people can hire a service that provides all the trappings of celebrity -- including bodyguards and screaming fans.
Soiree de Star, or Evening of a Star, offers a range of services based on being an A-list celebrity to being an E-list celebrity, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
For example, for about $350 a person can get E-list treatment that includes chauffeur-driven car, a bodyguard, a security van and a VIP reservation at one of Paris's top nightspots.
However, for a little more than $4,000 a night, a person can get A-list treatment -- including a six-person limousine, a bodyguard, four hysterical fans, three VIP reservations, optional helicopter ride, a television cameraman and paparazzi on motorbikes who will chase you through the streets of either Paris, Nice, Barcelona or Madrid.
"The motorbike paparazzi are less popular because of Princess Diana," explains David Benguigui, the co-founder of Soiree de Star.
But what about the paparazzi - what's their story?
The American tabloid, 'The Star' gives the account from one paparazzo:
Frank Rohmer, the owner of the X17 photo agency that snapped the singer and her son leaving a Starbuck's near her Malibu home, is amused by the explanation.
"George Spaly, who took the pictures, was not aggressive, nor did he pose any sort of threat to Britney or her baby. In fact, Britney and George have known each other for several years. She smiled and talked to George after arriving at the Starbuck's. Britney asked George not to take pictures of her and the baby at the Starbuck's and he agreed. In fact, on this particular afternoon at 1 p.m., it was so quiet that another bodyguard following in a car behind Britney's left shortly after arriving at the Starbuck's."
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Once Britney and her bodyguards had their drinks, she reportedly switched seats with one bodyguard and drove off with Sean Preston plopped in her lap.
"She had her right hand on the wheel and her other hand apparently holding her kid. That's when George started shooting. He kept a respectable distance."
But in defense of his agency's lucrative subjects, Rohmer suspects Britney, "just wasn't thinking."
"It's quite possible that Britney and Kevin hadn't gotten to installing the child car seat in the back. Not that that's any sort of excuse," he told the Star.
Indeed it's not. And this side of the story is a far cry from Brit's initial claim that she feared for the baby from the imposing paparazzi. From NationalLedger.com
VERSACE STORE OPENING
It seemed like no one knew what to expect for this store opening. The buzz was
Just prior to arrivals, security set up another press area across from the first press pen. Three photographers were quietly escorted to the new area, followed by a mad dash by another 10+ all looking for a spot. In the end, we wound up 20 on one side, 15 on the other.
The Versace PR then hands us tip sheet, that which rivals a Peggy Segal list. A lot of big names and big promises, but will they deliver?
Well.... I guess it's all in how you look at it.
It was like a dream... a beautiful happy dream.
