Gérard Depardieu punches the “King of the paparazzi” outside a bar in Rome
French movie star Gérard Depardieu repeatedly punched Rino Barillari, known as the "king of the paparazzi," on Tuesday at Harry's Bar on Via Veneto, the grand hotel and cafe-lined boulevard that decades ago was a lively hangout for paparazzi hunting celebrities, according to the photographer and a journalist who witnessed the altercation.It may have been a scene straight out of “La Dolce Vita,” the early 1960s Federico Fellini film that introduced the character of an annoying and eccentric photographer who stalked the movie stars who filled the cast of the Cinecittà film studios when Rome it was known as “Hollywood”. on the Tiber".Seeing Mr. Depardieu, 75, and Mr. Barillari, 79, in Via Veneto was like "a time machine," said Gianni Riotta, a columnist for the newspaper La Repubblica, w...