The Sunday Telegraph published an excellent review of The Fame Formula by Jenny McCartney, alongside Look at Me by Peter Whittle, yesterday; a small chink of light in a day mostly coloured by the death of my old friend Ken Campbell, who helped me launch the book only a month ago. Jenny McCartney enjoys an…
I have just had a bad news phone call that has rocked my weekend. The comic genius Ken Campbell has died. Its seems unreal, the theatre and entertainment world has lost an extraordinary man. Ken was a dear friend and he had helped me launch of the Fame Formula at the Riverside three weeks ago. We had so…
I noted a wire story this morning that suggested that Britney Spears is “highly unstable” – the singer is “sensitive” and “insecure” and is in the last chance salon (AGAIN!). Flip back to the wire reports that were circulating about Barbara La Marr back in the 1920’s, and a story I mention in The Fame…
Reviews of The Fame Formula are still rolling in – here are a couple of good ones from the net. Fame corrupts and corrodes, giving people a license to behave badly, writes Geordie Grieg in the Big Book review of The Fame Formula at The First Post website, “Andy Warhol got it spot-on when he…
News has come in that Apple are attempting to sell iPhones in Poland by paying actors to queue outside the stores to whoop up interest in the all-singing, all-dancing phone which is released there on Friday. According to Reuters, a spokesman has said: “We have these fake queues at front of 20 stores around the…
John Pinette is one of the funniest stand ups I have seen in years. This oversized routine is dominated by frustrations about food cafeteria lines and the modern day morons. After 24 hours in Edinburgh, I’m beginning to turn into him! Pinette talks about someone in a restaurant queue saying “how big is your small?”…
Here’s another selection of links to radio appearances talking about The Fame Formula. To listen to Mark speaking about The Fame Formula on On the Record with Eric Schwartzman, a regular podcast available on iTunes telling the story behind the story – mainstream journalists, influential bloggers and podcasters talking in depth about how technology is…
The Daily Mail ran a second review of The Fame Formula last Friday, reproduced below until it goes online and can be linked to, by Lydia Slater under the Critic’s Choice banner.
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. —…