https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdaX7RYEgV4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEbsCIFYBWA

rollingstone "Before shooting #KeanuReeves I was warned he could be difficult. In my experience shooting celebrities, some are and some aren’t, but I never wanted to shoot celebrities to be friends with them. It is an opportunity to photograph an interesting subject and my goal is to walk away with an interesting image. When he arrived, he didn’t say much, and after a few frames I wasn’t feeling it. I was shooting digital and pulled out my Mamiya RZ67 and asked if we could shoot some film. I felt an instant shift in his energy, so I told him why I loved the camera and still loved shooting film. I asked him to think of something he loved while I shot this image. Three frames later we were done. I don’t know what he connected to in that moment but he wasn’t being difficult and I’m glad I didn’t blow that opportunity by judging him. He gave me something interesting to work with and I can appreciate that." As told to @RollingStone by photographer @crodgersrun

Photo was taken either at TIFF 2010 or Woodstock 2010.
Photographer had no idea that at the time Side by Side was already a project in development...

I've been reading up on the growing use of drones. The FAA doesn't really have a policy on how to deal with domestically owned drones. In the news I've seen several stories of civilians using their drones to peep at others in the privacy of their home. There was this one story on the ABC News, where one neighbor called the police about a drone peeping into their window, and flying into their yard. Then the police got another call, from the owner of the drone, saying that his neighbors shot his drone down.

There was a jet that nearly collided with a drone. story here.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/

I said this to speak about paparazzi. If one of those razzi could get their hands on a drone, then it would changed the privacy war for celebrities (like our boy Keanu Reeves) I mean, how can this be dealt with?

Lol Alex would build a lake house, that would take the drone with containment and control. XD

For me, it comes down to something like the video that circulated about Keanu cursing in public - and my thought was that, if I did that, it wouldn't be "news." It hardly seems fair that something that mundane and ordinary (yes, I have said "Jesus!" in public) for the rest of us is "newsworthy" when a celebrity does it - any celebrity, certainly not only Keanu. I just find it scary and depressing that the culture has convinced us that celebrities are something other than human beings. They're mostly no better or worse than the rest of us, and I think it's nice to treat them as we ourselves would like to be treated.

This comes from the perspective of someone with 6 decades - I definitely wouldn't have felt so strongly when I was even 30.

If I randomly yelled "Oh my Keanu!" whenever something bad happened, people generally wouldn't think I was being insulting. Keanu might even find it funny, or even a compliment that I'm in the habit of crying out to him in every moment of distress. If, on the other hand, I went around stealing sandwiches from people and justifying it with "Keanu wishes me to have this sandwich", then that would be using his name in vain, and he would have a lot more right to be pissed off at me. Same with God.

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"Oh my Keanu!"

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... a new meme was born :|
(at least I 'm adopting it from now on. ;))

I've said it before, I'll say it again: I don't go to sites which buy photos from paps; don't give traffic to tmz.com, didn't give traffic to vlad tv or whatever it's called, either. One of the reasons I left CK many years ago was the fact that they bought paps photos.
That's all I can do. Cannot control or even influence what other people do. It won't matter to all those sites, I know. It matters to me, though.

And yes - Westboro Baptist Church makes the Holy Spirit disgusted and sorrowful.

What good answers! And thanks, everybody. I did, I confess, watch the video of Keanu at the gas station - he was indeed being stalked by those jerks, but he seemed genuinely contrite at having offended. I don't think he would mock someone's sincere faith, that sounds very unKeanulike to me. But bogus religion - like Mia's Christian images in Generation Um... yeah, he doesn't seem to respect that, and he's right.

I agree, LucaM, I think our individual choices matter - maybe not to those sites, but to us. Pictures of celebrities - not only Keanu - who look sad because they've been cornered, trapped, stalked by paparazzi make me angry and sad.