Word: puchta
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...after the young Czech paparazzo Dalibor Puchta was memorably arrested after trying to photograph Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie from a garage near the sleek villa the couple had rented in Prague, neighbors are out indulging their evening routines...
...pressure is most acute on the photographers. The rule, says Puchta, is that you can't bring back to the office any less than what your paper's competition has. But the media market is so small in this country of 10 million that it often makes sense for the competing paparazzi to team up. Especially when the subject is working very hard to remain elusive. That's what's brought the paparazzi pack out here tonight in hooded sweatshirts and discreet earpieces as they maintain radio contact with one another in search of gaps in the protective shield provided...
...have earned loads of cash, but his arrest has certainly earned Puchta some respect. "I am popular now. The bodyguards at Bailando step back in awe," he quips in reference to a celebrity reality-television contest...
...Puchta, meanwhile, is out hunting for a 45-year-old local television star returning home alone - "visibly crushed," the tabloids tell us the next morning - from a hospital after giving birth to her gravely ill seventh child...
...Given the circumstances, it seems almost foolish to ask if there's a line he would never cross. "I find myself constantly pushing that line. I keep telling myself it's just a game," Puchta says with a sigh, his voice fading out. A few months earlier, he had the distinction of being the first in the paparazzi pack to snap a young widow after her aging husband, a famous pop composer, had blown his brains out. That "coup" did not make him feel especially proud. "A trained monkey can do it," says the tabloid lensman. "This is not photography...