Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In einer eMail vom 05.09.1997 04:36:15, schreiben Sie: >The only way to deal with fortune hunters is to make the >game too expensive or illegal, and as the law cannot really afford to hunt >the individuals down, it must turn its attention to the real source of the >poison and fine the magazines heavily for clear intrusions on privacy. 1) Hmm. Do I hear a call for Big Brother ? 2) Some celebs find their pix in the mags, others don't - although they're in comparable positions - maybe those don't depend on their public every day's rebirth. I even suspect, that most celebs or politicians who cry out loud now, are too uninteresting and/ or haven't been in the mags for some period. Maybe they should follow the hint, and crash through inner cities on 120+ mph in a one ton car, guided by a drunken driver and security chief from hotel Ritz? Besides, a US mag offered $ 300.000 for the in-car shots, and a British newspaper $ 3 million. Bad financial luck for the guy, whose agency took the pix from the market again ... Alf