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me in particular.

The people with me

are forced to react.

That's when they file charges

saying we attacked and beat them.

The poor souls!

The next morning they report

they were beaten up

to the local correspondents

for Il Tempo, Il Matino,

and Il Messagiero di Roma.

The next day those papers run articles

unflattering to Brigitte.

''Bardot's Fianc Attacks Photographer.''

Why that article in the paper?

Because you're not kind to us.

We were very upset, Brigitte,

and we wanted to let

the public know what you are.

Why don't you ever let us take pictures?

What's the best shot of Bardot for you?

A bathing suit. A bikini. Those are

great pictures for the weeklies.

I'm sure if we could get

a picture ofher with the little dog,

Il Tempo, Il Settimo Giorno, Il Europeo

would print it right away.

But that's impossible.

She's always surrounded

by police and soldiers.

They stop us.

At the very moment

we're about to get a picture.

Of course,

all this in spite of our sincere efforts

to convince the soldiers

that we need to eat every day.!

We're not lucky enough

to haveJicky Dussart's job,

the photographer

on Bardot's production.

He can do anything he wants.

He can work completely at ease,

in a relaxed and casual way.

Artfully, simply

and elegantly.

And we get yelled at

by our press agency to boot.!

The only thing that bothers us

is having someone among us

who doesn't take it seriously.

First he cuts the name ''La Stampa''

out of the paper and puts it on his hat.

Then he draws everyone's attention

to his hand that's in a cast.

It makes a terrible impression.

It's very hard to believe,

but he broke his neck

in April on the Via Veneto.

He slipped on a banana peel.

We were hoping for a lot more.

At a certain point,

you can't work that way anymore.

Climbing up mountains to take pictures

with a telephoto lens from 600 feet away.

To think that to get a picture

with a telephoto lens,

we risk falling to our death

from a cliff.

We're not interested anymore.

Is this the last time

you'll ever take pictures of Bardot?

- You'd try again if she came back to Italy?

- Yes.

You see.

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