西部落：明星PK记者：永恒的战争

Celebrities¹ vs. paparazzi 明星VS记者：永恒的战争

Showbiz Tonight's Kareen Wynter has the latest from Hollywood, including the war between the paparazzi and celebrities.

Big stars like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of course always have the camera lens on them wherever they are. But is it too much? Kareen Wynter joins us alive from Hollywood with the details now. On the stars and the paparazzi, there seems a, kind of an odd relationship, Kareen, because they love them, and then they hate them.

You are so right, it’s a love-hate type of blend, and Nicole it looks like it’s time for another face-off between celebrities and you *, the paparazzi. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are threatening legal action to protect their privacy from paparazzi armed with telephoto lenses. In a letter published by the smoking gun, Pitt’s lawyer said that pictures of the couple and their children were taken while they were on their private property. Now the letter threatens legal action and says they will seek substantial damages if those photos are published. Courts in France, by the way, have a reputation of taking cases dealing² with invasion of privacy extremely seriously. Actor Sandy Miller³ may also take legal action against some photographers. According to people.com, she’s suing two British newspapers that published topless photos of her with a married actor Balthazar Getty. After the photos were published, Getty issued a statement saying that, he and the mother of his four children were separating. Now back in December, Miller won a suit against the same two papers for publishing intrusive⁴ shoots of her as she was filming a new scene for a movie. So Nicole, obviously privacy is so precious commodity that can be difficult for these, for these celebrities to find.

Yeah, indeed, everybody wants a little bit of privacy. But you know, 50 cent, not so much, should I say right, he, he, he’s out there in the public eyes, suing Tack⁵ Bell, and he’s not even enquire⁶ about it.

Ur, that’s right, I don’t think 50, Nicole, will be making our run for the border any time soon. Tack Bell ran an ad, asking 50 cent to change his nickname for a day, to 79 or 89 or even 99 cent. They are trying to promote a new value menu. But the problem is they never spoke⁷ with Rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson before they printed the ad. So 50 cent is suing Tack Bell for 4 million dollars since they used his name without permission, if he gets that, if he gets it, Nicole, it would buy a whole lot of bridles⁸, particularly on that new value menu, and we’ve all talked about well, all this publicity⁹ might be worth whatever they end up paying an legal bill. So, is it a win-win situation here I guess for both?

I don’t know, do they, does he get a * or something and he, (Oh, actually add it in.) if you win, you add it in. I don’t know he needs all that. Interesting, very interesting indeed. But you know, (It’s pretty comfortable.) you can’t make this stuff up, but Hollywood, I mean, writes, the stories for you. Um, (And we just report it.) could we talk. Yeah right, it’s pretty, pretty cut-and dry and let’s talk about the weekend movies. Last weekend, ‘Big Mama Mia’, we also had a ‘Dark Knight¹⁰’, anything good this weekend?

Well, I’m thinking it could be the ‘X-Files’ Nicole, through which by the way, premiere last night in the Hollywood. The X-Files, I want to believe it’s based on the popular TV show, it opens everywhere, July 25th, and many of the fans of the series can truly be called fanatics¹¹. They may lined Hollywood board of world on Wednesday to welcome back Scholey and M*. In true X-Files’ fashion, the storyline has been capped on the * so those some of use for the film they’ve been mixed. Of course, the X-Files faces some very stiff competition, as the Dark Knight is still brining in millions of dollars everyday and also, the / comedy, Step-brothers, premieres on Friday as well. So, quite a big lineup there, and a huge lineup as well tonight, on Showbiz tonight. Host Hogan, speaks out from the controversial jailhouse state to his failed marriage, Hogan isn’t holding anything back, how does he really feel about his ex-wife’s relationship with a 19 year old, can Hog¹² weather this storm. Showbiz tonight, with the dramatic new interview at 11 pm eastern and pacific. Nicole.

Thanks so much, Kareen

1 celebrities   

n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉

参考例句：

• He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
• a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目

2 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

3 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

4 intrusive   

adj.打搅的；侵扰的

参考例句：

• The cameras were not an intrusive presence.那些摄像机的存在并不令人反感。
• Staffs are courteous but never intrusive.员工谦恭有礼却从不让人感到唐突。

5 tack   

n.大头钉；假缝，粗缝

参考例句：

• He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.他正往墙上钉一枚平头钉用来挂画。
• We are going to tack the map on the wall.我们打算把这张地图钉在墙上。

6 enquire   

v.打听，询问；调查，查问

参考例句：

• She wrote to enquire the cause of the delay.她只得写信去询问拖延的理由。
• We will enquire into the matter.我们将调查这事。

7 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

8 bridles   

约束( bridle的名词复数 )； 限动器； 马笼头； 系带

参考例句：

• The horses were shod with silver and golden bridles. 这些马钉着金银做的鉄掌。

9 publicity   

n.众所周知，闻名；宣传，广告

参考例句：

• The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
• He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事，只当它是一种宣传手法。

10 knight   

n.骑士，武士；爵士

参考例句：

• He was made an honourary knight.他被授予荣誉爵士称号。
• A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.一个骑士骑在装饰华丽的马上。

11 fanatics   

狂热者，入迷者( fanatic的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The heathen temple was torn down by a crowd of religions fanatics. 异教徒的神殿被一群宗教狂热分子拆除了。
• Placing nukes in the hands of baby-faced fanatics? 把核弹交给一些宗教狂热者手里？

12 hog   

n.猪；馋嘴贪吃的人；vt.把…占为己有，独占

参考例句：

• He is greedy like a hog.他像猪一样贪婪。
• Drivers who hog the road leave no room for other cars.那些占着路面的驾驶员一点余地都不留给其他车辆。