I left the office last night to see an advance screening of Christopher Guest’s movie For Your Consideration at a private screening room in Soho. I really wanted to see his new movie, billed as a parody of the pretentious Hollywood award ceremonies. I took my seat as,Tim Spall, introduced the screening, which seemed odd…
From the Independent on Sunday 03 December 2006 … The publicist Mark Borkowski knows all about engineering a successful second chance; he’s the man behind Noel Edmond’s renaissance. … When Take That split up in 1996 a generation of pre-pubescent girls went into shock. Now the not-so-fresh-faced four are reunited. Sarah Harris explores the secrets…
Interesting feed back to the Word of Mouth thing from some folk that were there Simonsays – Simon Wakeman – Greenbanana – Still feel crap that I could not stay on. Oh well.
Despite a debilitating bout of man flu, yours truly struggled across London to take part in Maestro Andy Green’s conference on Word of Mouth, billed as “The ultimate conference on winning the battle for word-of-mouth communications”. I was worried that the pints of Lemsip. I had supped would knock me unconscious. It wasn’t the finest…
What a surreal day for a humble publicist To kick off the winter season at Wookey Hole we staged the first extreme eating competition to be held in the United Kingdom a media event that had all the usual Borkie DNA. I watched Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas a small American weighing only 7st 7lbs…
I am very pleased to announce that we have become the UK distributor of the Universal Bullshit Detector Watch™ which is a must for any frustrated PR exec. The owner of the watch can now comment with humour at any time during a meeting or presentation when a client or a fellow professional starts to…
Google’s Blog search facility corroborates Emily Bell’s notion in the Media Guardian today, that the Blog world needs to be conscious of the inner tosser that exists in all of us who feel the need to “opinionate”. The thousand of PR blogs that proliferate daily, suggest that the wave of opinion does not have…
Before I wind up for the weekend one last thought. Great bit of utter bollocks about Noel Edmonds in today’s Daily Mirror. I hope the Mirror isn’t wasting money on tipsters. Sounds like Benjy the Binman is back in action. NOEL’S CELEBRITY ‘NO’ Mirror.co.uk – London,UK By Nicola Methven, Tv Editor. NOEL Edmonds has threatened…
Jagshemash!!!! I must be careful how I say this but could there be a Borat backlash. Already the media are reporting various legal actions being threatened by some of the more humourless victims of the fictitious foreigner’s pranks in “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Perhaps it’s no surprise…
Colonel Sanders goes stellar There seems to be a “mcflurry” of PR activity in the food and confectionary world. Burger King and Cadbury have both taken proactive steps to pull advertising and sponsorship. It is brilliant brand opportunism perhaps driven by the deep sense of paranoia that these respective industries are consumed by that has…