paparazzo
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The next day, Weiss himself becomes a tabloid story: In the U.K., the Daily Mail headline reads, “People Paparazzo Popped Trying to Snake Pitt.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
In 1960, Italian director Federico Fellini made the film “La Dolce Vita,” which included a pesky scooter-riding photographer named Paparazzo.
From Washington Post • May 5, 2022
Meanwhile, in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, the name of a supporting character, the persistent street photographer Paparazzo, subsequently came to describe a whole phalanx of the popular press.
From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2017
He’s the original Paparazzo of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita updated to the TMZ age.
From Time • Oct. 31, 2014
Paparazzo Ron Galella, who was felled last year by Brando in a street scuffle, had got dressed up too; he appeared in a football helmet garnished with a feather.
From Time Magazine Archive
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