TODAY IN HISTORY: Movie starlet shoots original paparazzo with bow and arrow
October 19
Fed up with the paparazzi taking photos of her, actress Anita Ekberg shot at a group of photographers with a bow and arrow on October 19, 1960.
Photographer Felice Quinto claimed he was struck in the hand with an arrow as he waited outside her home in Rome.
Ekberg had found fame in the movie La Dolce Vita, in which she played a starlet hounded by photographers.
The character of Paparazzo in that film inspired the word paparazzi.
Ironically enough, the character of Paparazzo was based on Quinto.
Schatz (left) went on to sue Waksman and Rutgers for his share of the royalties.
Schatz was eventually given three per cent of the royalties, but was never hired to work in a top-level microbiology lab again.
Testing the drug was a difficult procedure. The first test patient died, and the second went blind as a side effect.
The third patient, Robert Dole, was dying from an infection after being hit with a shell during World War II.
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