*UPDATE* I’m posting the video here (from youtube) so people can watch it here and not on x17, giving them more clicks. I decided to post it so people could choose to watch if they need to see how serious this was. But please be warned that it may be difficult to watch.

Heartbreaking.

Ugh. I wanted to throw up when I heard about this today.

I’m not going to post the pictures, but I will link to the x17 post in case you haven’t heard about this yet. If you have, please don’t click it again so they don’t get even more traffic.

Here’s the story so you don’t have to click the link if you don’t want to support the people evil enough to do this to someone for money.

Last night, Rob left a party in Malibu, California. He was swarmed by paps as soon as he left, and after getting in his car he tried to drive off and accidentally hit two cars around him. Instead of getting out and leaving insurance info, he left the scene by driving away. (In my opinion, it’s not cool for him not to leave a note at least, but why would he want to get back out of his car and be harassed even more? Also, after watching the videos, it seems to me like he just tapped the cars, and x17 is trying to make it out like he left behind hundreds of dollars worth of damage. PUH-LEZE.)

The photographers followed him down the highway, and after nearly a half hour of them not leaving him alone, he stopped his car, got out, and yelled at the paparazzi following him. After that probably only excited them more, he back in his car and drove away again.

This story would be horrible enough, but what happened next takes this into “makes-me-psycho-with-rage” territory.

He was still being followed (no doubt this made it unsafe to drive. I have watched pap videos of Britney Spears before and it’s a miracle from God that no one has ever been killed in a car crash), so when he saw some police cars parked by the side of the road, he stopped, got out, and asked the police for help while the paparazzi (and normal people with camera phones who saw the commotion) swarmed behind him, flashbulbs going off over and over.

AND THE POLICE TOLD HIM THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO.

Yes, that’s right. They told him there was nothing they could do, even though he was obviously being harassed. Even though these photographers following him had probably been driving like they were in Grand Theft Auto in order to take his picture, endangering him and others on the road. Even though these people were basically actively TRYING to piss him off even further to get a reaction for the camera. At the time I’m writing this, in between photos of Rob being harassed, they have a caption under one gleefully proclaiming, “VIDEO COMING SOON!”

The link is here, but please don’t click it unless you absolutely feel you have to.

This is undoubtedly disgusting. Rob is not the first celebrity they’ve done this too, and he’s no where the last. Hollywood is a business, first and foremost, and celebrities are only products, packaged for our consumption to make money. The paparazzi are an integral part of that machine, so unless something drastic happens, this kind of behavior on their part is here to stay.

Now before some asshole out there comments saying, “They got into acting, they knew this would happen, they asked for it.” (you know who you are), I’m not saying that ALL paparazzi attention is bad. They usually gather at movie premieres or other red carpet events, and I don’t think there’s really anyone out there who would object to that. There are also the usual paparazzi videos and shots found almost everywhere, where people can watch Britney make a quick run to Starbucks, or Kim Kardashian shop on Rodeo Drive. Those particular situations CAN turn scary very fast, but normally you can see the celebrity looks amused by the photographers, and maybe even engages them in conversation before the paparazzi decide they have their clip or the shot, and they leave the person alone. TMZ even has a TV show FULL of their cutesy little interviews with celebs while they capture them on film going about their business.

The things I described above are one thing. Swarming someone as soon as they step out of the door, moving in as a group with bright bulbs shining in their faces to make them feel disoriented or trapped, then doing everything possible to get a reaction out of them for your camera is entirely another. It’s not only dangerous to the celebrity, the paparazzi themselves, and any one who just happens to be there in the wrong place at the wrong time, it’s incredibly brutal and cold to do this to someone just so you hope they react in a defensive way so you can get more money for the tape.

Everyone should remember what happened to Princess Diana, because it certainly can and probably WILL happen to someone one else.

After reading about this (or seeing the pictures), you probably feel completely disgusted about what happened to Rob (and what happens to other celebrities every day). So what can you do?

It’s pretty much impossible to cut paparazzi photos completely out of your life. They’re shown on TV, they are reposted on websites, they are staring out of the tabloids while you pay for you shit at the grocery store. All of that is nearly unavoidable, but here are a few steps you can take so you don’t support this crap with your dollars.

First of all, don’t buy a tabloid ever again. They are among the top buyers of pap photos, and they usually use them in such horribly misogynistic features like, “Celebrities Without Makeup!” or “Celebrity Bikini Bodies! Who’s 25 and already has cellulite?”

Don’t go to TMZ, Perez Hilton OR X17.com when you’re surfing the web. If you see a link to them on another site, don’t click it. Every time you don’t click, that’s some ad revenue they lose. Save your clicks for better things (like Twilog!)

Stop watching E! News, The TMZ show (I don’t even know what it’s called), or other celebrity news shows. They reshow and replay photos and clips for days (those damn Mel Gibson tapes are EVERYWHERE, and I never wanted to hear them in the first place).

If everyone who was tired of celebrities being treated like this took these steps, there would be no money in it anymore and it would stop happening. Unfortunately, this will most likely not happen anytime soon, but every person who DOESN’T consume this crap is part of the solution.

For a few more online resoucres and organizations you can contact to find out what else you can do, please check out Thinking of Rob. They did an excellent post today on what happened and what we as fans can do about it.

Some new set pictures from Rob’s film Water For Elephants were released yesterday and now it’s official. Now that I know how hot he is in a tux, we must be wed. Immediately.

There a ton more of these, and you can see them over at Thinking of Rob HERE and HERE!

These are so hot, I actually *shivered* while looking at them. (I accidently typed, “hard” in that sentence first, when I mean to type “hot”. What a Freudian Slip, amirite?

That last one is my favorite. Yummy!

Check out the rest over at Thinking of Rob!

Rob and a very cute puppy. What else could you possibly need!

UNF. He is such a GQMF in this picture, even when he’s all dirty and sweaty looking. Look at his strut.

See more of Rob running on the WFE set over at Eclipse Movie!

So, to me, these new Robsten photos are like the light at the end of the tunnel. OR (here comes a birthday pun! Get ready!)…they are like the icing on the cake I’ll be eating later.

One thing I want to know though: Who is the asswipe who decided to stamp a huge watermark (that looks too much like an algebra problem for me today) DIRECTLY over their faces?

Are they trying to kill us?!

Can we please get these untagged ASAP?!

Check out Thinking of Rob to see the rest, and see them way bigger!

UPDATE: Slowly but surely, the untagged ones are hitting the net. Check here!

There are so many different live streams set up this time around, and you can go HERE for a list of them all and choose which one you want to watch. I’m going to embed some here for convenience as well.

I will be posting photos and videos here as soon as they become available, so refresh often!

Plus, I will be tweeting at RT’ing all important stuff having to do with the premiere tonight too, so follow me if you aren’t already.

PLUS!!!! Tonight, I’m leading a fan fic discussion over the one shot Midnight_Caller by KatieBelleCullen, over in our Book Club room at Chatzy, so if you have read it, feel free to join me at 9pm EST over there for fun times! The password to enter the room is “fanfic”.

Live Streams:

AP

Watch the Myspce live feed HERE (they are constantly playing all the trailers in a loop though, so beware of that).

The MTV live stream should be HERE, starting when the ceremony starts.

UStream

Live video by Ustream

It’s almost time!

Pictures!

See more here!

See more of Taylor here!

Image Source

See more of Kristen here!

So what did you think? Once all the videos and such are all in one place tomorrow, I’ll post any interviews you may have missed due to the 50 million different feeds.

]]> http://twilog.net/2010/06/eclipse-red-carpet-premiere-master-post-live-stream-here/feed/ 1 http://twilog.net/2010/06/in-case-you-missed-it-eclipse-movie-jimmy-kimmel-special/ http://twilog.net/2010/06/in-case-you-missed-it-eclipse-movie-jimmy-kimmel-special/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:58:35 +0000 Whitley http://twilog.net/?p=4072 You guys, I was so beyond pissed last night. I had told my DVR to record this, but this is the second time that it’s completely ignored my instructions to record something Twilight related. I was ready to drop kick it out of my apartment front door.

So, if like me, you missed this here are the Jimmy Kimmel videos in HQ!

If you haven’t watched this, you should because every second is pure gold. I love how when Jimmy told Bryce that she was the best Victoria, she kinda sorta panicked. Did anyone else catch that?

And um…Twilight and Jersey Shore…That gave me feelings I don’t know how to describe, really. I love them both in very different ways, and they should have been kept separate forever. Never the twain shall meet.

No…just no.

If you’re just interested in the new clip shown here ya go!

These are presented without comment because this:

is all I can do after seeing them. I think I need to go lie down now.

Check them out at Thinking of Rob here and here because they get WAY bigger.

Aw! Rob’s dad is adorable!

ULTRA DRAMZ UPDATE:

So…apparently, Emma Roberts has been chased away from the twittah after she was harrased over and over by rabid Team Edward fans!

Yeah. That really happened.

It didn’t escape a lot of people’s notice that she was less than nice to Rob on the show (“Do we really have to sit next to each other?” Um…what?), but several people brushed it off as joking.

BUT…as it turns out, she might have had a reason for treating our precious Rob like that:

There’s probably much more to that little Edward jab—and his name is Michael Angarano. Remember him, Kristen Stewart’s ex boyfriend?

Stewart and Michael dated when Twilight was first being filmed and were very on-off until Kristen decided she wanted to be totally on with Pattinson.

While we hear Kristen and Michael remain friendly, but aren’t exactly besties, Angarano has found himself another gal to pal around with in the meantime: Roberts.

But don’t worry, before Emma was run off Twitter, she had only nice things to tweet about R.P.:

“Rob Pattinson is so nice! I was slightly disappointed his skin wasn’t glittering & the song Wild Thing didn’t start when he shook my hand.”

Still, doesn’t stop us from wondering if there is something up between E.R. and M.A. Emma and Michael recently worked together on the film Homework and have been rumored to be possibly more than friends.

The two have been spotted all over L.A., lunching together at Joan’s on Third, having some very friendly looking Starbucks runs, and most recently were out together (and left together with a group of friends) at Las Palmas for Katy Perry’s after party last weekend.

Roberts was last known to be dating UCLA cutie Dathan Kuppin, but the two haven’t been seen out together recently, and some outlets are quoting Emma as saying she’s single.

So, could Michael and Emma be more than costars, Robsten-style? Or maybe they’re just super good friends, which obviously can happen when you film together too.

Either way, we think the whole Team Jacob comment could be a little bit about sticking up for her pal M.A., who was totally left in the dust when Stewart chose Rob.

A rep for Emma Roberts says she and Michael “are friends.”

Well, good to stand by on old pal, ya?

Keep in mind that this comes from The Awful Truth, so grain of salt, yeah?

See more set photos of Rob and Reese here, here, and here!