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I Learn Something New Every Day (Fellini Edition)

The Italian word paparazzo (known here in its much more familiar plural form "paparazzi"), meaning "A freelance photographer who doggedly pursues celebrities to take candid pictures for sale to magazines and newspapers," is taken from a character in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita named Signor Paparazzo, who engages in same.

Sources: the 1960 film itself and dictionary.com.

posted by Immanuel Can't @ 10:48 AM