Smash His Camera

Before TMZ, before the Internet, before reality TV, there was paparazzo Ron Galella, the subject of "Smash His Camera" (2010), this fascinating documentary that celebrates a controversial personality and a bygone era. Decades before paparazzi started swarming celebrities like flies, Galella made an art out of ambushing the stars. He stalked Jacqueline Onassis to the point where she took him to court. Marlon Brando once broke his jaw. A surprisingly charming Galella relates these and other stories of his fabled career, while Dick Cavett, Robert Redford, First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, and others offer their own reminiscences of the shutterbug that the famous loved to hate.