Kim Calvert/Special to the Daily Press Paparazzi recently perched themselves on the patio overlooking the runway at the Santa Monica Airport when word went out that actress Angelina Jolie, who pilots her own plane, had taken off from the airport earlier that day. The photographers, who had been waiting for Jolie’s return for hours, kept their telephoto lenses pointed to the approaching planes until nightfall, hoping that what goes up, must come down.

Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 7, 2005. Read the original PDF.