Camera を持って有名人を追っかける軍団　paparazzi は10年前英国のPrincess Dianaの交通事故死ですっかり有名になりました。Paparazziはもともとはイタリア語のpaparazzo (五月蝿うるさい虫)の複数形からきていますが、この言葉はFederico Fellini の映画『甘い生活』(La dolce vita 1960年作)が大元になっています。

... One of the characters in the film is a news photographer named Paparazzo (played by Walter Santesso). In his book Word and Phrase Origins, author Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name paparazzi from an ＩItalian dialect word for a particularly noisy, buzzing mosquito.

今年になってお騒がせ有名人Paris Hilton がpaparazziの格好の餌食になっていますが、有名人とpararazziの関係はあくまでもbusiness が優先します。

... it is the paparazzi who "make" people celebrities, but very often, the celebrities attempt to act as if they hate and fear the paparazzi.

...Paparazzi author Peter Howe told Time that "celebrities need a higher level of exposure than the rest of us so it is a two-way street. The celebrities manipulate."

日本で一番paparazziを上手に使っているのは宮崎県知事の東国原英夫です。彼はpaparazziの使い方を米国で一番若い市長に伝授すべきです(In Media's Eye, Young Mayor Says He's Learning)。

Pittsburgh は人口減少問題と負債を抱え(With about 312,000 residents, Pittsburgh is suffering from a shrinking population and is also more than $1 billion in debt) 27歳の市長はChicago やNew York を訪れて経験者の教えを受けています。

Mr. Ravenstahl has also looked to his elders for pointers. A day spent with Mayor Richard M. Daley in January in Chicago, he said, impressed upon him the power a mayor can wield. In a visit from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York two weeks ago, Mr. Ravenstahl asked him how he dealt with aggressive reporters.