Re: Paparazzi &Princess Di

[spaniel <spaniel@pacbell.net>]

From the Los Angeles Times this morning:

"The paparazzi have been getting a hammering, which seems a mite unfair.
War photographers get paid to go on snapping as people die and pictures
of the semistarved in Ethiopia regularly win prizes without people
angrily protesting that the emaciated child would probably have
preferred a glass of water and a biscuit rather than a Leica shoved in
its face...

In the end, Diana only truly seemed to come into her own when in the
company of people in worse shape than she. Recently, as she bent down to
embrace a little boy, oblong handbag elegantly raised to shield her
cleavage from the photographers, it was obvious that she did not mind
the paparazzi, in fact craved their constant attention, but on terms she
hoped to be hers. That's how everyone in show business wants it.
Paparazzi gave her comfort and meaning, as surely as did her encounters
with the dying and the maimed."

Bravo!