I am doing a english paper on how the paparazzi causes issues and how they are pretty much borderline stalking the celebrities and I would like input from other people on this issue. I would also like to know if anyone disagrees with this statement. Thanks for the help!
I do think that the papparazzi overcrowds the celebrities life near to stalking
but i also believe when people choose to go into the celebrity industry they know about the papparazzi and are fully aware of the nature of the papparazzi,
but they may not think the papparazzi will take so much interest in them as they sometimes do
talk about that
sum upp both sidees
paparrazis defence and celebritys defence
hope i helped
good luck.x:)
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I want something creative to be for halloween. What are some good characters or celebrities big this year that I could be for halloween? Any other costume suggestions are fine too.
britney spears.
pamela anderson.
michael jackson.
a kardashian.
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22
Paris Hilton has insisted she is intelligent and down to earth despite intentionally putting on an "airhead" public persona. "I would do the baby voice and it’s kind of like this character I made up, but in real life I’m completely different," Paris admitted on ITV2’s Fearne And Paris. "I’m very down to earth, I’m smart, I know what’s going on. It’s kind of like I…
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Katie Price has confessed she hardly ever uses sun protection despite using her tanning machine nearly every day. "I’ve had sun bed treatments for as long as I can remember. We have one by the pool at home and I’m on it pretty much every day." Katie admits in her book Standing Out: My Look, My Style, My Life, "Cancer worries me but I hate being pale. I’m going to get old and…
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22
‘It was just an interesting topic over a crazy beat, and who better to pull that off than Rihanna?’ Ne-Yo says.
By Jocelyn Vena
Ne-Yo and Rihanna
Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage
Ne-Yo and Rihanna certainly have a special working relationship. After collaborating on some of Rihanna’s most memorable hits, they came together, with the help of co-producer Chuck Harmony, for her latest single, “Russian Roulette.” But the new track, off her upcoming Rated R album, sounds very little like “Hate That I Love You” or “Take a Bow.”
Ne-Yo said Rihanna requested the song’s somber vibe. “She wanted to be dark, but not just dark for the sake of being dark,” he told MTV News. “Dark with kind of a meaning, dark with some kind of thing to it.”
Ne-Yo called the track “my first ventures off into the fictitious,” as he explained how he came up with the haunting Russian roulette theme.
“I’m listening to the track, and all I can see is Rihanna and some random person sitting across from each other at the table with a gun sitting in the middle of the table and playing Russian roulette,” he explained. “And I just started thinking, ‘What would go through your mind if you was in that situation?’ It just all started coming together, and Rihanna has never been one to be afraid to take a chance, especially with me. She’s always game to do something a little different. I played it for her, and she loved it — went in and knocked it out. The rest is history.”
The eerie ballad shows the world how both Ne-Yo and Rihanna have grown as artists, he said. And that growth stemmed from their “absolute trust.”
“I trust Rihanna to be Rihanna, and she trusts me to be me,” he said. “That’s the coolest thing about our relationship. I don’t expect anything more from her. I must say this song is a step in somewhat of a different direction for both of us. We kind of both took a chance.”
And to the fans who think the track is too dark for a club favorite like Rihanna, Ne-Yo suggests they look back into music history. “It’s definitely dark, but if you think about it, [Michael Jackson's] ‘Thriller’ was dark, but it’s one of the biggest-selling records of all time,” he argued.
“Nobody’s really going out to play Russian roulette or thinking about killing themselves or nothing like that. It was just an interesting topic over a crazy beat, and who better to pull that off than somebody like Rihanna?”
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Prosecutor said it came down an issue of possession.
By Gil Kaufman
Lil Wayne arrives in court on October 21, 2009 in Manhattan
Photo: Louis Lanzano/ AP Images
For much of the past two years, Lil Wayne’s attorneys have argued that police could not prove that the weapon they found on the rapper’s bus in July 2007
belonged to him. But, in a surprise move on Thursday, Wayne (born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.) entered a guilty plea to a class “D” violent felony of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.
The plea brings a one-year prison term, of which Wayne is expected to serve at least eight months. The lead prosecutor on the case, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, told MTV News shortly after Thursday morning’s court proceeding that despite a focus on the DNA evidence in the case in recent days, she did not think the guilty plea was “contingent” on the DNA.
“Possession is defined as actual possession or dominion or control. … we said it was dominion and control,” explained Illuzzi-Orbon. The latter phrase is a legal term that refers to something being available for immediate use.
In Wayne’s case, the plea means that the rapper did not admit the gun was in his hand or immediate possession, but that it was on his tour bus and within his dominion (i.e. “control”) because it was on his bus. His lawyer had argued during the course of the proceedings that the gun was not in Wayne’s physical possession, as stated by the arresting officer, which explains why the plea deal was for dominion and control and “attempted possession,” not actual possession.
Wayne’s lawyer, Stacey Richman, said, “After ongoing negotiations, he opted to take the deal to take responsibility for the situation and I think it speaks of him that he’s an individual with a strong constitution that he took that responsibility.” She again noted that the .40-caliber gun was purchased by Wayne’s manager, Cortez Bryant, who had a legal permit to carry the weapon in Mississippi.
“In the current political atmosphere and given the stance New York state has on guns, it’s a fine resolution,” Richman said, noting that in New York state a first-offense charge of gun possession has a three-and-a-half-year minimum sentence “no matter who you are.” Richman claimed that the gun laws in New York state are significantly more severe than in many other states, and considering that fact, the one-year sentence she negotiated for Wayne is a decent outcome.
Wayne had previously pleaded not guilty to the possession charges and Richman had long said that the evidence against her client did not prove that the weapon belonged to him or place the weapon in his hand on the bus. A spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office said that evidence presented during the case showed that the weapon was not lawfully registered to anyone in New York state and that prosecutors never disputed that Bryant purchased the gun in Mississippi.
“I don’t believe this was just some random stop,” Richman said of the police action that led to Wayne’s arrest. “If he was some half-assed no-name, they would have never stopped the bus. He happened to become the most famous person in the universe independent of the trial,” she said (somewhat hyperbolically). As an example of this, Richman noted that another client of hers, rapper Ja Rule — who performed with Wayne that night — was arrested for a nearly identical charge the same evening and was held on $150,000 bail, whereas Wayne’s bail was only $30,000.
Richman said Wayne was not pressured into accepting the plea and wasn’t particularly happy about it, but felt he needed to make a choice after the lawyer explained his options to him in a case that could have resulted in a minimum three and a half years in prison. The DA’s office spokesperson said that although the charge typically carries a two-year sentence, evidence presented in the case determined that a one-year term was acceptable.
“It would have been a phenomenal battle,” she said of a potential trial, adding that the much-discussed DNA evidence had nothing to do with the decision to cop a plea. “This technology is a danger to the citizenry,” she said of the so-called low copy number DNA method, which uses sometimes miniscule amounts of repeatedly processed genetic material to obtain a DNA sample. “It is not generally accepted and their own documents noted that. It can pull up whatever DNA they can find, and in this case there were at least three contributors. There’s no way of discerning who contributed what; it’s just a mishmash of DNA.”
Richman described Wayne as a highly intelligent man of “exquisite manners” who she believes was not aware of the impact that having a gun in his presence in New York could have on him. “I don’t think that people outside of our state are aware of our gun laws,” she said. “Ignorance of these laws is no defense … but my understanding is that Cortez Bryant is one of the main guys who picks up the back-end money after shows and he had a proper [carry] permit from his state, and from his perspective he had it for protection and there was no malice intended with the gun.”
Richman said that the plea deal will not have any impact on another case Wayne is facing in Arizona — related to gun and drug possession — which is slated to go to trial in April. Wayne is due back in court in New York in December and is expected to surrender to begin his term in February.
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