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
The Apartment In 2002, a poll of film directors conducted by "Sight and Sound" magazine listed the film as the 14th greatest film of all time (tied with "La Dolce Vita"). In 2006, "Premiere" voted this film as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time". American Film Institute J. D. Sheldrake: "But when you've been married to a woman for twelve years, you don't just sit down at the breakfast table and say 'Pass the sugar and I want a divorce.'" The Apartment The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film, produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a