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Lincoln Center Theater has terminated the contract of South Pacific stage manager Michael Brunner, after he was arraigned on Friday on a charge of unlawful surveillance. Brunner, 54, has admitted to using his iPhone to videotape one of the actresses in the hit revival. (Pervy spying? There's an app for that.) The actress, whose name is being withheld, discovered the iPod on a desk in her dressing room between acts, and said, "What the hell is this?" She then proceeded to finish the performance, and alerted theater personnel after the curtain call.

Broadway stage manager for the acclaimed, Tony award-winning production of South Pacific was arraigned last night in Manhattan Supreme Court on a charge of unlawful surveillance. Michael Brunner, 54, turned himself in for questioning after one of the actresses in the show found an iPhone in her dressing room filming her while she changed. The victim also saw Brunner in her dressing room before she walked in. Naturally, the Post has a fantastically awful headline: "A 'South Peep-cific' voyeur rap."

A woman in Cobble Hill called the cops last week when she saw a man trying to open the window of her Congress Street home. When police arrived and questioned the 32-year-old man sitting outside her home with a camera, he told them he was an architect. But when cops asked to see his "blueprints," they instead found snapshots of the woman in her underwear. The man was arrested for unlawful surveillance, criminal trespassing, and stalking.

The East Patchogue, Long Island landlord who allegedly put videocameras in a tenant's apartment to spy on the 16-year-old daughter was held on $20,000 bail. Police say that Louis Basco, a self-employed handyman, "wired surveillance cameras to peer into the 16 year old's bedroom and bathroom. They say he gained access from her attic, where he comes and goes as the property owner." Tenant Robert Hayducka said, "He had a camera in our ceiling, which there were holes in my bathroom and in my daughter's room. Nowhere else were there holes but in my daughter's room." It's unclear how long the monitoring has been going on, but the police found enough circumstantial evidence to arrest him. In the mean time, the family has issued an order of protection against him.

Whether you're a fan of the reality genre or not, voyeurism has injected itself into every form of entertainment since shows like The Real World gave anyone with cable a chance to see the day-to-day lives of total strangers. With everything from HBO's Voyeur to watching a band in a bubble, we wish this were enough to satiate those creepy peeping tom's out there!

The Post and Newsday have followed up on the rape/sexual assault that occurred early Friday morning around 1AM in Prospect Park, but with very different explanations about the circumstances.

This might be one of the few times bad police behavior is well-timed with the release of a Dreamworks animated film! The Daily News reports that a couple enjoying a first anniversary celebration was spied upon by an NYPD captain who was trying to film the amorous couple with his pants unzipped. It's definitely one of the better stories about how the NYPD deals with catching criminals in their ranks.

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back.

Gothamist is surprised we don't hear more stories about this, especially since skirts are really short and flouncy these days. There is legislation in the works to ban instances of people's privacy being violated with pictures taken by camera cell phone and other devices in locker rooms, etc. Which is a very different issue than the possible subway photography ban in New York, but it's good to keep in mind whenever and wherever you shoot - sometimes it's good to ask a person's permission if you're taking their picture. And the Nassau County police want women who believe they may have been victims on "up-skirting" at the Roosevelt Field Mall on Sunday to call Crimestoppers, (800) 244-TIPS.