Why are paparazzi called that?

Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita has a character named Paparazzo who is a news photographer. That name was embraced by the first generation of celebrity candid photographers. Fellini had borrowed the term from an Italian descriptor of a buzzing insect's sound. read more

Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce Vita has a character named Paparazzo who is a news photographer. That name was embraced by the first generation of celebrity candid photographers. read more

A news photographer named Paparazzo (played by Walter Santesso in the 1960 film La Dolce Vita directed by Federico Fellini) is the eponym of the word paparazzi. In his book Word and Phrase, Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name from an Italian dialect word that describes a particularly annoying noise, that of a buzzing mosquito. read more

The Kardashians are notorious for calling paparazzi to show up wherever they are, and it's been going on since way before Keeping Up With the Kardashians even aired. Nick Lachey dished that Kim Kardashian called photographers to catch the former flings on a date back in 2006. "Let's just say this: We went to a movie. read more