No DEPP, but KATE shimmers

Letterman
June 29, 2006

Johnny Depp was scheduled, but we got Kate Bosworth instead.

She posed nice when she went in, but made a bee line for the SUV when she left.

Unfortunately for her, by trying to go 'around and behind' the shooters, we cut her off before she got to the car door. She looked like a deer in headlights.

Nice going, you bastids! LOL!

Kidman to paparazzi: This Bud's for you

If you can't beat 'em, toast 'em.

Rather than wasting their time trying to shoo the paparazzi away from their Sydney home, newlyweds-to-be Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban treated the 20 or so photographers camped out at their home Tuesday with a cooler full of beer accompanied by a note that read, "Enjoy! Nicole and Keith." The gesture was welcomed by the 'razzi, who enjoyed a cold one at the behest of the Oscar-winning actress and the country hunk, and went over better than, say, a bushel of poisonous apples.


If I was Kidman, I would have called the police on paps for drinking in public! LOL.

~~~ATTENTION ALL NY PAPARAZZI!!~~~

Ok Everyone....LISTEN UP!

Britney Spears just broke down in tears to Matt Lauer saying her biggest wish is for the paparazzi to “just leave her alone".

So everyone stop shooting her.

(My duties as a Good Samaritan have been completed. I can go to heaven now.)

Hilton Offers Spears Paparazzi Tips

Paris Hilton insists pop star Britney Spears should try and cooperate with the paparazzi and not antagonize them.

The hotel heiress, who appeared on the talk show "The View," claims she sympathizes with Spears' battle with the media, but that the best way to handle the pesky photographers is to smile and work with them.

She explains, "(The paparazzi) annoy me, too.

"I can understand going to a press event or a premiere that's fine, they're there, but when they're waiting outside your home every morning and following you around every single day it's hard.

"I'd rather them just take pictures at events, not at my house.

"I think it's better just to smile than when people give the middle finger or are rude to them, because that's what they want you to do.

"They want to get a bad picture."

Britney Spears Complains About Paparazzi

Britney Spears Complains About Paparazzi and Says She's an Emotional Wreck Right Now

NEW YORK Jun 12, 2006 (AP)— Britney Spears says her marriage to Kevin Federline is "awesome," and scrutiny from the paparazzi has made her an "emotional wreck."

Opening up in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer to be aired Thursday on the "Today" show and "Dateline," the 24-year-old singer says it is not true that Federline is living in the basement, as some media have reported.

Spears insisted that she loves her husband.

"He helps me. He has to. I'm (an) emotional wreck right now," she said.

The paparazzi have "crossed the line a little bit" by showing her in private moments, she said. She also defended her parenting skills, saying, "I know I'm a good mom."

She drew criticism earlier this year when she was photographed with her infant son, Sean, sitting on her lap as she drove. She cautions against judging her.

"I did it with my dad. I'd sit on his lap and I drive," the Louisiana native said. "We're country."

The singer said she feels like a target. Asked what she would say to the paparazzi as individuals, she says: "You have a life. And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people and that we … just need privacy and we need our respect. And those are things that you have to have as a human being."

Federline and Spears married in the fall of 2004, and their son, Sean Preston, was born last September. She revealed last month that she is pregnant again.

Federline also has two children, Kori and Kaleb, with his former girlfriend, Shar Jackson.

JERRY LEWIS Keeps 'Em Laughing

Jerry Lewis Friars Roast

June 9, 2006

The set up for this event is the same every year.

The press set up behind a small 'wall' (about 4' high and 3' thick). We shoot from behind the wall as the talent passes in front and on the stage. It has never been an ideal shoot.

You spend the event shooting various old school comedians and lesser talent (Tony Roberts, Pat Cooper, Steven Van Zandt).

Finally they bring out Jerry Lewis. Of course, everyone is trying to say hello to him, so all the press are blocked from getting a shot. After this mayhem, we finally get Jerry to pose with the Friar Award. But we can't get him solo and the entire stage is cluttered with riff-raff.

Jerry does eventually come to sit directly in front of the press. He then proceeds to place the entire rim of his drink in his mouth and do some classic Jerry Lewis faces.

After all this silliness, an entire mob of press chases him to the adjacent room, where he proceeds to hide under a tablecloth to get away from the photographers.

As we were running to the other room, Andrea took a nasty spill and wiped out on the floor. (Hope you're O.K.)

Funny event: As a group of photographers were waiting outside the event in the halls of the Hilton for Jerry to exit, Ice T and Coco come walking down the hall. We try to stop them, but Ice T rushes pass and says they can't stop because they're "In The Mix".

About 3 minutes later, Coco comes back to us and asks if we want to take her picture. We tell her "Sorry, right now we're 'In The Mix'." We refused to shoot her and she just said "Oh..." and walked away.

Priceless!

Arnold Newman dies in New York at 88

Photographer famed for his revealing ‘environmental portraits’

NEW YORK - Photographer Arnold Newman, whose “environmental portraits” of artists and politicians revealed their souls through evocative settings and lighting, died Tuesday. He was 88.

Newman, who was in rehabilitation from a recent stroke, died of a heart attack at Mount Sinai Medical Center, according to associates at a gallery that represented him.

“Arnold had an ability to see things that transcended what everybody else looked at,” said Ron Kurtz, owner of Commerce Graphics, a New York gallery that deals in his fine art prints.

Based mostly in New York, Newman traveled the world to photograph artists, scientists, fellow photographers and politicians. Working as a freelancer for Life and other magazines, he photographed Pablo Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Mickey Mantle.

His portraits were posed to bring out what the subjects did, revealing them in their own environments. Among his best-known works were those of Igor Stravinsky at the piano and Nazi industrialist Alfred Krupp looking demonic in his factory.

Charities to benefit from first Brangelina baby pix

A week after her birth was announced to a waiting world, the infant daughter of Hollywood power couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, is already trading her instant celebrity for charity dollars.

The first pictures of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt -- following a top secret photo shoot at the couple's fortress hideaway in Namibia -- are to be licensed worldwide by Getty Images, with all the profits going to charity, the photo agency said.

"The photo shoot took place over the weekend, but I can't give you any more details about that," Getty spokeswoman Deb Trevino said Monday, adding that exclusive deals had already been worked out with a number of publications.

Shiloh was born on the night of May 27 near Swakopmund, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the Namibian capital of Windhoek.

Pitt, Jolie and their two adopted children had checked into a beach resort near Swakopmund in early April -- their bodyguards and Namibian police shielding them from the ever-present paparazzi.

It was not immediately clear which charities might benefit from Shiloh's first baby photos but, in a joint statement, Pitt and Jolie highlighted the high rate of child mortality in poor nations.

"While we celebrate the joy of the birth of our daughter, we recognize that two million babies born every year in the developing world die on the first day of their lives," the statement said.

"These mothers and children can be saved, but only if governments around the world make it a priority," it added.

D2Xs replaces D2X as Nikon's flagship digital SLR

Nikon has unveiled the D2Xs, the company's follow-on to their 14 month old flagship camera the D2X. The main change in the new model is inside the viewfinder when Hi-Speed Crop mode is enabled: gone are the corner and edge markings delineating the smaller shooting area in favour of an innovative masking system.

There are other refinements in the D2Xs, relative to the camera it replaces, including a new wide viewing angle rear LCD, beefier battery, new software for verifying the authenticity of the camera's photos and numerous other nips and tucks to the feature set. But the headline act in the D2Xs is the new viewfinder.

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CANCELED!- Rob Thomas/Jewel on GMA

There is no GMA tomorrow due to bad weather expected.
They have moved Rob Thomas/Jewel inside the GMA
studios-NO PRESS

Thanks to NikonDeb for this info.

Britney Spears Sours on Big Apple: May Abandon New York

Britney Spears is reportedly tired of Kevin Federline, tired of the paparazzi and the media attention and one report suggests she's tired of the 'Big Apple.' Will Britney abandon on New York City?

Gotham was not kind to Brit on her last trip and a report says she took notice.

Page Six notes that Spears fled California and K-Fed for New York with her infant son, Sean Preston, where she had a disastrous time. Her mission - at least according to one report - was to announce her pregnancy 'officially' on The David Letterman Show' before K-Fed could cash in on the scoop.

Here's a bit of her trip as described in the New York Post:

In the city, Spears, pregnant with the couple's second child, was continuously followed by a pack of paparazzi who caught her waltzing into Tao restaurant at 9 p.m. with her cranky baby and a pal - and leaving an hour later when he proved inconsolable.

The next day, a tired Spears tripped on her pants and almost dropped her young son - all caught on camera - and was later snapped sobbing at a deli.

"She felt drained and bombarded," our source said. "She is not very comfortable in this city, and New Yorkers didn't make her feel welcome. She has said she will never come back unless she has to."