La Dolce Vita describe intrusive photographers. As to the origin of the character's name itself, Fellini scholar Peter Bondanella argues that although "it is indeed an Italian family name, the word is probably a corruption of the word "papataceo", a large and bothersome mosquito. Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, reports that he took the name from a character in a novel by George Gissing." Gissing's character, Signor Paparazzo, is found in his travel book, "By the Ionian Sea" (1901). Marcello is a journalist in Rome during the late 1950s who covers tabloid news of movie stars, religious visions and
La Dolce Viva revealed the seedier side of Andy Warhol’s entourage through Viva. “I had never seen anything like it,” Tom Wolfe wrote of accompanying nude photos from Diane Arbus. According to contemporary "New York Times" review of the book, "La Dolce Viva" gave an insight to Warhol’s relationship to other people. But the articles appearance in the "New York" hurt the magazine ("The Nude Photos that Nearly Destroyed New York"), and "New York"s editor, Clay Felker, was aware of the commercial risk he ran in publishing the piece. Some reviewers of "La Dolce Viva" were generally hesitant to read this piece, but