The seaside city has asked Ken Starr, dean of the Pepperdine Law School, to convene media and legal experts to help draft an ordinance that would control paparazzi swarms around local celebs. They're talking about possible buffer zones and a tax on the photogs. "We're coming up on another summer season. Let's hope we are not in store for another tsunami of paparazzi," Mayor Pamela Conley Ulich says. "Maybe they will think twice before shoving a camera in your face." Starr has plenty of experience in the tabloid realm as the prosecutor in the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal.

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