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The Paparazzi Are Working Through the Fires


“For lack of a better term, it’s a shitshow.”

To those familiar with the ins and outs of the celebrity-industrial complex, however, the shots of Affleck behind the wheel of a black sedan navigating charred Palisades canyons by night with “the emotion of the devastating fire written all over his face” registered a secondary reality. That is, despite significant risks of third-degree burns and smoke inhalation, falling trees and wind-whipped power lines, paparazzi still roam the city’s most exclusive enclaves hunting celebrity quarries. They want photos of celebs picking up the pieces, somebody returning to the ruins of their house and showing the destruction the celebrities are facing, which, yeah, in and of itself is a news story.

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