Paparazzi — the selling of secrets THE word paparazsi comes from Federico Felhni’s 1961 film about Rome’s cafe soc- ety La Dolce Vita. Fellini named the most persistent character in a pack of celebrity photographers who worked the Via Veneto stip “Signor Paparazzo” after a childhood fiend who could imitate the sounds of insects. “According co at least one historian of LA Dolce Vita: Paparazzo Tazio Secchiaroli comes the era, paparazzi photography got its rue under attack on Rome's Via Veneto circa 1258. start the night of August 15, 1958. It was then, says Diego Mormorio. a photography collector and dealer in Rome, that a group of freelance new: Spaper photographers encountered King Farouk of Egypt on the Via Veneto, sitting with two young women ata sidewalk table at the Café de Paris. “One of the photographers decided te make a picture of the legendary playboy, and the flash of his strobe turned heads —— including that of the stout King Farouk, who rose from his table and started shout- ing at the photographer. While this was pening, the other photographers b making pictures of the confront: Farouk’s anger mounted into a comn: which ended with the arrival of the p The photographers, Mormoric says, ized they had just discovered how to 1 sellable pictures.” — David Schonauer, “Great Chase, Then and Now,” Am Photo special issue Scerets of the Papin: july/August 1992 NOTICE TO MOTORISTS TRAFFIC DELAYS AND CLOSURES SEA-TO-SKY HIGHWAY 99 20 km NORTH OF HORSESHOE BAY The Ministry of Transportation and Highways advises travellers of thirty-minute ' deiays and four-hour closures on Highway 99 approximately 20 kilometres north of Horseshoe Bay for rock slope stabilization. ‘Expect thirty-minute delays as follows: Monday, Septem! to Frida Highway 99 closed to aii traffic during the second half of each hour 9:30 AM to 4:60 PM Mondays to Thursdays 9:30 AM to 12-noon Fridays Expect four-hour closures as follows: ° ” Monday and Tuesday: Highway 99 lowed to all traffic "10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Expect minor delays between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM Monday to Thursday and $:00 AM to 12 noon Friday § For further information contact the Howe Sound District Highways Office at — ; 990-5200. The Ministry thanks you for pianning your travel around this important ‘highway safety project. BRITISH ~ (COLUMBIA igen As the wheel tums The Wheel of Fortune spins, casting our fate, our luck. The wheel is a revered symbol in countless civiliza- uons. The Greeks perceived it as “the living culture” and Tibetan Buddhists their pri- mary too} of meditation. - For Pagans i it was the sundi- al while during the Middle Ages the image meant change. Ae the wheel turns three different levels of energy emerge governing the phe- nomena we know as “Life.” Reality according to the late physicist David three levels: the explicate, implicate: and super implicate ¢ At the base of the wheel clings Typhon, the crocodik ed God of instinct, destruction and . Wi 2 son Ankh emblem for innate creative impu ooked staff ay Herm of luck of, more pre a) ‘WIN TACKETS 10 B.C LOS EXT ROME : ‘Win two tickets to the &.C. Lions vs. tha . September 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tell us (by fax iz hosting the Grey Cup this yesr and you could ‘ tickets. Winnars will be notified by telephons on 1 in your answers to Lions Football Tickets, c/o M Week, 7139 Lonsdale Ave., Porth Vancouver, B.C. to us at 985-2104. Include your name and phone nu From the low $500,000s. For a private appointment, please call Evelyn Froese at (604 688-4710, to make arrangemen 1717 & 1777 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Exclusively marketed by Royal LePage. :