By now, you will know that Britney Spears’ much-vaunted comeback appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards was nothing short of a shambles. The singer, out-of-shape and seemingly dazed by the bright lights, stumbled through a lip-synced performance of her forthcoming single, Gimme More, in front of a perplexed showbusiness audience. PR expert Mark Borkowski…
I have been approached by a UK plastic surgeon who wants to discuss publicizing his new treatment. The phone call was a bit of a long ramble but essentially he wants to be the first British practitioner to surgically alter thumbs to make using an iPhone easier. I hope he is not a prankster reacting…
By now, you will know that Britney Spears’ much-vaunted comeback appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards was nothing short of a shambles. The singer, out-of-shape and seemingly dazed by the bright lights, stumbled through a lip-synced performance of her forthcoming single, Gimme More, in front of a perplexed showbusiness audience. PR expert Mark Borkowski…
Britney Spears – Gimme More [Live Vma’s 2007] Uploaded by Wonderful-Life Britney Spears was the star of the MTV Video Music Awards last night in what the channel hyped as the fallen pop princess’ long-awaited comeback. Comeback – personally, I am still waiting for her to go away. It’s sad to think that the mighty…
Spending as much time as I have with the ghosts of movie publicity whilst researching my book, I have recognized that they all understood or had the bitter experience of the fame cycle. I stumbled upon this scrap of wisdom that perhaps the faded Britney Spears should have known. “Success is ephemeral, failure is inevitable…
Still the innuendo flows that our Wispa campaign was a hyped fake. The cynical business pages of the Sunday Telegraph did its own evaluation. Read the results http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money
The RAF is missing a fantastic PR opp. The Russian military are proving to be much cleverer on the PR front that the dusty Air Staff. Yesterday British fighter jets were scrambled to intercept eight Russian “Bear” reconnaissance aircraft in the second such incident in recent weeks. Four Tornado F3 planes took off from various…
“The laughing Lotus Louts; Pair vandalise sports car and then put film on MySpace!” screams the headline in the Evening Standard. The story is about two hooligans – or as one blogger colourfully describes them – “retarded knob jockeys”, who filmed themselves wrecking a £30,000 Lotus Elise parked in a London street then posting the…
Lets support the SourceWatch campaign to out the spinning of Wikipedia http://www.prwatch.org/node/6391 In the current issue it highlights the deeds of the dark forces of ” big PR” So far they have logged several attempts at spin into the respective SourceWatch profiles, including: * Chevron deleting the article on “Biodiesel” *Military contractor Raytheon deleting information…
I am currently researching the studio PR men that created Jean Harlow. It’s an extraordinary story that would make a contemporary star maker blush. Harlow knew the power of her sexuality and manipulated it to great effect. One of her many tricks to create an entrance was to put ice on her nipples right before…