NEWS: Maggie Gyllenhaal Horrified by Paparazzi

CELEB: Maggie Gyllenhaal Horrified by Paparazzi

In a recent interview with the L.A. Times, (her first since the birth of her daughter Ramona), Maggie Gyllenhaal implied that celebrity baby culture is hurting her family.

In the past, the Gyllenhaal family has resorted to hiding baby Ramona beneath her father Peter Sarsgaard's coat.

"celebrity baby culture" is a term now?

we're. all. doomed.

Calling the fire department to get them out of the house? Ringing the buzzer all day long with a 5 day old child? I would have gone ballistic. I don't understand why paparazzi feel like they have a license to act this way. If any other person did this, it would be harrassment with stiff fines and or jail time.

Maybe its because I'm not into all the celebrity gossip stuff, but I don't understand it. I assume its based off a need to humanize a celebrity in order to feel more akin to them therefore justifying your own life as more important. Anybody know of any studies done on why people are into celebrity gossip to the point that the demand of photos requires harrassment? I would like to read one.

I hope the fire department fucked them up, what assholes

Everyone blames the paparazzi, which is understandable. But we should also blame all those middle aged women that come into bookstores every week to sit and read copies of People, US Weekly, OK, etc. without buying them. If it werent for them and their boring lives, the paparazzi would more or less be out of work.

haha.
Comus.
Right. Good point.
I hate middle aged women.


Correction: I hate white people.
That sums it up really.

haha.

because its impossible to prove who called the fire department unless they did it from their home phone or cell phone (which i;m sure they didnt)

It's amazing what some people will do for a story. The photos are always crap anyway - besides, who cares what baby Maggie Gyllenhaal's had? We know she's had it...the problem is, in a culture of gossip magazines (which we, the public, are responsible for to all intents and purposes) we want to know everything about a celebrity. They're our property, a lot of people think. That's why there are so many tantrum celebrities (see big wanker Jay Kay) who just get violent when they see photographers.

I hate worse than this culture, the culture of D-List celebrities criticising A-list celebrities for their lifestyle. It's like 'What the hell do you know? You're just jealous it's not you! You'd give ANYTHING for that exposure'

See the celebrity status of Jade (UK people know and hate who she is)

physician...heal...self...yaddayadda...
That's a picture right there of hiding the baby under the coat to avoid the very photographer that took that picture right at the top of this page - right in this celebrity column that you're reading.

I'm a full-time photographer and I agree. State and local legislators should be extending the same kind of protection to celebs that they do to any other citizen who needs it. (Except how do you write a law for a "blanket restraining order?")

P.S. My mother was a feminist, a professional, an art-lover, and something of an intellectual. But as she started to fade, in her sixties, she actually started reading those celebrity rags. The first time I found one of those at her place, I was aghast. It was sad. Maybe it's part of the aging process.

Hounding an A list celeb okay- but Maggie is more like a b/c lister. I guess they need a filler till some A lister gets divorced or knocked up. Personally I think it's a shame to hound anyone celeb or not.