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Is one of Time's 100 Most Influential people operating under the influence, and, more offensively, playing games with photographers' hearts?

I'm a wire photographer and I was shooting at a red carpet. The publicists were on the phone with someone's assistant. The publicists were telling us to stay promising that a big, big celebrity was coming; we should stick around. Finally the ginormously tall John Mayer shows up, obviously stoned, surrounded by little, thin, blonde publicists in high heels. He wants to walk through the red carpet but he must not be photographed he says. The publicists all came towards us and started pushing the photographers into the bathroom as they held their hands up as he passed.

Well, as Time has said, "his aura of passivity is an artistic achievement." And now we know where the aura emanates from!