- It was a dismal summer day in 1973, paparazzo Ron Galella begins. - I snapped pictures of Marlon

- It was a dismal summer day in 1973, paparazzo Ron Galella begins. - I snapped pictures of Marlon Brando and a friend while they ate dinner in New York's charlie langella Chinatown, when Brando waved me over. He asked, "What more could you want that you have not already?". Both had dark sunglasses on. I asked if they could take them off. So surprised Brando me with a right hand to the jaw, resulting in a broken jaw and five fewer teeth. "Come back! Want more? "Said Brando. I stuffed a handkerchief in his mouth and ran to the hospital. The following day Brando operated the swollen hand. Still, no one knows why Brando performed this violent action, says Galella. - Brando probably was not the first to be angered by a paparazzo? The warm laughter of a man drilled in his own defense rolls over phone from Mountville New Jersey. - The word paparazzo is Italian for insect and describes only the people who are restless. To me it means to snap spontaneous images of the stars as they really are. "Paparazzo" has no negative connotations, explains 78-year-old. The stars Galella attached to the film, is not necessarily agree with that analysis. It appears from paparazzo last book, "No pictures!", With highlights from four decades of spectacular confrontations. See the video: Paparazzi The Godfather
29 August, 1986, NEW YORK. - After a concert with Goose and Tomtom, did Sean Penn and Madonna home to the apartment at 64 street. I was one of five paparazzi who snapped, my nephew Anthony was also there. Then we followed them into the yard, shouted an angry Penn: "This is the straw, you are on private property. You are dead. " Penn made out to Anthony in the face with a carrier bag and spat on him. They hit after another until Penn did Anthony in a vise and Anthony grabbed the neck of Penn. Madonna screamed, "How could you do this to us - you have nothing to do here!" Then "Stop, Sean, stop." Eventually Dormann out with a broom and paparazzi fled. As we went, turned Penn down and banged my colleague Vinnie eye. The pictures bandit. - I am a bandit of images, to quote Fellini, says the man who more than most shaped the modern celebrity journalism. He was the son of an Italian coffin maker and got his first camera - one Rolleiflex - first when he served in the Air Force during the Korean War. At the same time he bought a book called "How to photograph glamor." He had a fascination with Hollywood, where a little girl a few years later, the whole show started. Galella tried to take a picture of the daughter of actress June Lockhart, without getting permission. He took the picture anyway and sold it for $ 62. It was the first time he got paid and the last time he asked for permission. - I decided to test if the stars glitter and glamor was real, he says. Galella mantra was simple: Anyone can become an icon. The camera is the real star of the celebrities who owe all their power. This mantra was the basis for the modern celebrity journalism, where the stars hunted 24 hours a day. Galella challenged Hollywood's per-polished exterior with a piratånd inspired by European photographers, and with a dedication bordering the madness and monomania. In the mid seventies Galella was far from the only paparazzo, but by far the most famous and hated. - I could get $ 1,000 for a picture of Elizabeth Taylor. But the risk was significant, he said. After hiding for taking pictures of Taylor and Richard charlie langella Burton at a swimming pool in Mexico, kicked Burton's bodyguards Galella in the jaw and gave him a thrashing before he was thrown into prison charlie langella and then taken to the hospital. - Burton was a bastard of the great. But I think he felt guilty because he let me take pictures of his next wedding. He was high pressure purged of girlfriend Brigitte charlie langella Bardot and spat on by Sean Penn. But what really made Galella famous, was his public quarrel with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. After several charlie langella trials, he was threatened charlie langella with seven years in prison if he ever photographed her or her children again. charlie langella The photographer took the breakup hard: - I can not believe Jackie charlie langella went so far. We had already got a close relationship, says Galella. See the video: Paparazzi The Godfather
28 February, 1977 LOS ANGELES. - I pulled out my tape measure to keep me within the 25 feet I got the restraining Jackie Onassis had been able to me. In 1982, I was found guilty of violating the right order four times and sentenced to seven years in prison and pay $ 120,000. I entered into a settlement and gave up the right to photograph Jackie, John J. Jr.. and Caroline forever. John Jr.. later lifted the ban. Caroline applies today. (Photo: Ron Galella). Windblown Jackie. On 7 October 1971, Galella eye on Jackie Onassis as she came out from the side entrance of the house. - I saw her from my viewpoint in Central charlie langella Park. She headed up M