Article: Cameron Diaz: if ever a movie star belonged on the beach, it's Cameron Diaz, the ultimate California girl. But in this age of predatory paparazzi, relaxing on the shore--or in town or anywhere--is hard work.(Profile)(Cover story)

It takes a lot to ruin Cameron Diaz's day, but on this sunny Wednesday in October, after the actress has spent two hours stuffing herself with crabcakes and Coke, giggling and wisecracking and breezily dishing out the California-girl charm that has helped make her one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, she sees something that really bums her out. Diaz has just wrapped up a lunch interview at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica and has agreed to go to the beach and take a little walk. We get into her gray Prius, which is littered with half-empty bottles of Fiji water, and drive a few blocks to a beachside lot, where, within five seconds of leaving the car, she spots ...

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