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British actor-comedian Russell Brand, background right, watches as Associated Press photographer Mustafa Quraishi, standing front, struggles to retrieve the key to the vehicle in which he was traveling with a group of photographers, after it was snatched away by a bodyguard of Brand's at the Ranthambore National Park in Ranthambore, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Russell Brand's friend and a bodyguard assaulted four news photographers, including one from The Associated Press, when they were taking pictures of the British comedian Friday in an Indian tiger reserve before his wedding to Katy Perry, the photographers said. The photographers had been following about 330 feet behind two jeeps, one carrying Brand, a woman who was not Perry, a man and two children, and the second carrying the bodyguard and another man later described by police as Brand's friend and wedding guest.

Open season on photographers

In yet the latest incident of paparazzi vs. celebrity, bodyguards for actor-comedian Russell Brand got into a major incident with photographers at the Ranthambore National Park in India. It seems that assaulting journalists is good way to ensure negative publicity.

As we blogged earlier, Life Imitating Art, this is nothing new.

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So which is this, serious photojournalism or paparazzi behavior?

    Reply#1 - Sat Oct 23, 2010 4:33 PM EDT
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