The problem is at the end of the day financing is in white hands. You have to convince a panel of white men, on why they should give you their money. And if you respond, I want to create positive representations of black people. They’re going to laugh in your face. Ultimately they get to decide what’s happening to…

Seems like a combination of bad book-to-screen, “let’s dumb it down for the audience”, and “let’s not make the white people too damn heinous in case we lose them too much”. It is an interesting issue we have with our work, I recall an article somewhere about how Tyler Perry’s Persuasion was the first film to get on…

Yeah...I guess you dealt with an incel before they were known as incels. It’s scary stuff.

I ended up being lucky because he was in the country illegally so he was swiftly in the custody of the government once I realized the severity of what was going on and got the cops involved. I didn’t have to testify or anything. I wish I still had the letters(gave them to the police) because they were INSANE. He…

I had a stalker from a class at college. I used to speak up in class. He liked something I said and decided we were “meant to be”. He was arrested then started stalking someone else. Wish it had happened before he attacked my sister. She was on a date and he thought she was me.

Maybe bc if the cops go after every paparazzi who harasses celebs, they’d never have time for anything else :/

Yes, people ask why so many artists are also addicts but with what they deal with, I wonder why they aren’t all self-medicating.

I hear this!!! I also had a stalker (for years) who worked P/T at my local Whole Foods. It was interesting to see how the obsession went from adoration to hatred when it became clearer and clearer that I was not interested in return.

I think it is partially why some of them seem a little...brittle after they 'make it'. 

I think if someone could present themselves has even boarderline decent they would get steady in house job as a photographer, either fashion or advertising.  There is a big need for photographers, and people who know the editing software to make people/things look good.  The paparazzi give off this energy that would…

They always did look sleazy, because they always were sleazy. Here’s the original star stalker, Ron Galella stalking his most celebrated prey (she did ultimately win a restraining order against him in the case Galella v Onassis)...

Because, they are crazy assholes? Of all the subjects you can capture if you’re a good photographer and are willing to wait hours for the perfect shot unwilling celebrities would be the last choice of decent people. They’re just stalkers who carry around a camera as a front.

I’m so sorry, that must have been terrifying for you. It's great that this nut is far away. 

Yep. I should have mentioned I had a stalker about 20 years ago. All I ever did was respond with a polite “hi” to his hello at a laundromat around the corner from my apartment and he must have followed me home because he started sending me letters telling me he loved me and we were going to be married and how his wife…

At the very least I bet it would feel good to hire some other paparazzi to follow the asshole around all day and back to his home, and hound his family as well. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Why does every single paparazzi, bar none, look like the sleaziest pieces of shit alive? They never look normal, they always look like shit, have a crazy look in their eyes, and just act like all around assholes every single waking moment of their lives.

Maybe because he’s a paparazzo just doing his job, so not a stalker. To them, anyway. There’s no difference as far as I’m concerned.

Enough stalkers have been dangerous that I’d never park outside for fear they’d plant a bomb in my car. I don’t know how famous people manage to not be paralyzed by anxiety at the thought that some murderous nut could be in any group they meet.

Maybe she tried and they declined to do anything if he’s not on her private property? But the driveway might be enough to convince them.

Hillary’s post is confusing. Why wouldn’t law enforcement be involved? Brad Pitt, Madonna, Taylor Swift all had stalkers who got dealt with by law enforcement. Why would she be different?