actually on the twins "affair" im kind of proud of hk peoples,, i hate paparazzis, they should be put in jail imho. if i was a star i hoped that a law permitted bodyguard to knock them off, they are a flea. sometimes i happen to watch "all access" show, showing how paparazzi wait for stars in front of bars in hollywood and so so, its so amazing that there's no law for forbidding this. especially when we know they have no respect for the peoples and sometimes that can be fatal (lady di)
Everything you say is absolutely correct, but the problem here is the Hong Kong people purchased
over 100,000 copies of that magazine, enough for TWO print runs. So far, there have been just over 2000 recorded complaints, undoubtedly also from Hong Kong people. The rest of this ridiculous scandal has been largely created by
and within the histrionics of a bunch of pampered, overly image-conscious—and often poorly educated— celebrities for whom the only response is to pout and perform for
every other media outlet, and by the various "agencies" and "experts" who couldn't wait to grab a slice of the spotlight to condemn an activity that has gone on for decades and will continue to go on long after Gillian Chung's tear ducts have run dry.
Gillian Chung is a good singer and a pretty decent actress. All she needed was ONE carefully orchestrated press conference or television appearance or to rise above this. But now, she comes off as a paranoid crybaby who's desperately afraid she's going to come off looking like some kind of common
whore because everyone saw her fiddling with her bra, as though her fans were too
dumb to assume she's regularly semi-naked between costume changes backstage.
Yes, the photog was in the wrong, and the paper should never have published the photos any more than they should have published all the other unflattering or candidly sexy shots they publish of famous faces on a regular basis, but the fact remains that they
do, they
will, and no amount of lawsuits or remarkably silly pronouncements from Jackie Chan is going to change that...
I wonder if the furor would have been half this big if the photo had been of some lesser light than everyone's favourite cutesy-bunny Gillian. Of course, shots of
those actresses and singers seem to turn up in just about every one of the Hong Kong tabloids and the media circus doesn't even bother to pitch a tent...so to speak.
As I found myself once again wishing Bob could institute a puking smiley here the HKMDB, I decided to find one myself: