Times Online are running an audio interview with me on their arts and entertainments page in a prime position on the page, just below an exclusive extract from My Little Armalite. It’s running under the headline The Greatest Publicity Stunts Ever: PR wizard Mark Borkowski talks to Hardeep Singh Kohli about the geniuses of hype….
The press coverage of The Fame Formula has been phenomenal; not least on the radio, as you’ll discover if you listen to a few of the files linked below. More files will be posted as they arrive. To hear Mark on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, discussing celebrity alongside author Christopher Brookmyre, click here. —…
A cracking review by Colin Byrne in today’s Guardian, also covering Alpha Dogs: How Spin Became a Global Business by James Harding. “The Fame Formula is a terrific, witty romp through the – often dirty – undies of the Hollywood fame factory and draws some interesting conclusions about modern-day celebrity culture.” says Byrne. To read…
It’s been another busy morning. I read The Times feature (reproduced below) in the BBC reception before stepping into the studio to record Midweek. The news about the release of the book has stretched from Chengdu to Skegness. It’s still feels odd to be involved with the PR process from the other side of the…
The Times has a story on the Christian Bale incidents and the influence of publicists, quoting me and The Fame Formula, as well as a number of other publicists. Here’s the excerpt featuring me – click on the link at the bottom of the page to read the full article. From The Times, July 30th…
Another eventful day began with BBC Radio Scotland dissecting The Fame Formula. The web still aggregates links to the Fame Formula hook and I was overjoyed to see it made the front page of The Telegraph on line. It’s even gone as far as being translated into Turkish, now! Tomorrow, the new edition of Time…
News of The Fame Formula is spreading like wildfire today – I’ve posted a selection of links below to some of the newspaper reports and blogs that have mentioned it. It all bodes well for the publication of the book this Friday, with any luck. Yahoo, The Telegraph, ITN, The Express, Channel 4, MSN, The…
In memory of fashion guru Isabella Blow, who died yesterday. In the afterlife the angels are shifting on their clouds and the hosts of the deceased are reassessing their shrouds. All the chubby cherubim have a glad glint in their eyes as they lift up their smocks to expose their fleshy thighs. Saint Peter’s wearing…
Written after reading that Lindsay Lohan discovered she was “a highly sexual person” whilst hiding in a quiet white room for 30 days during a stay in rehab. Love me or loathe me, won’t you mentally unclothe me I’m sexual in the extreme I’m after something ecstatic but – let me make this quite emphatic…
Millionaire Conservative donor Lord Laidlaw has declined to set a date when he will end his tax exile and failed to comply with a condition for a peerage set three years ago. The Borkowski poet in residence took this as a perfect opportunity for a tongue twister… Lord Laidlaw paid for a peerage it appears…