Research for the Sons of Barnum brings me to New York to find the great publicists of the entertainment business, Broadway, in particular. Many of the early film companies had headquarters in New York and it was in such places that many of the great publicists like Harry Reichenbach fine tuned their craft in the…
Ten things I hate about you… Every journalist has a gripe about dealing with PR people – but what irritates the gatekeepers? Genevieve Roberts and Ian Burrell hear their tales from the ‘moral low ground’ http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article356795.ece
Whitney Houston’s sister-in-law, Tina Brown, recently claimed that Whitney is hooked on drugs and living in squalor. She said the singer spends days locked in her bedroom amid piles of garbage, taking drugs and using sex toys. She also released shocking photographs showing the star’s bathroom littered with drug paraphernalia, including a crack-smoking pipe and…
Blunkett set to make millions from Memoirs David Blunkett could make millions from the publication of his memoirs The Blunkett Tapes, details of which were announced yesterday by Bloomsbury Publishing. http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=79968&version=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20
Sharon Stone is telling randy teenagers to have oral sex instead of giving up their virginity. Hey kids, give blowjobs or learn to munch rug – offer your mouth to any under-sexed thug who demands satisfaction in the traditional way. It saves money on condoms and there’s no price to pay. Get down and dirty…
More spin tales from the old colony. I am told by email from Ralph Hawkins that when the news was announced that the wacky Marx Brothers were making a movie called A Night in Casablanca, the suits at Warner Bros. spun a campaign that Casablanca might get tainted by the Marx’s low brow humour.
Is the crafty, lateral-thinking PR in danger of being wiped out as clients favour safer options over passion and pluck I lower the phone to another breathless recruitment agent making a plea for a bright prospect who will not fail to impress me. “Trust me Mark, give her 10 minutes to pitch. I am sure…
after To Whom it May Concern by Adrian Mitchell I was destroyed by the press again this morning couldn’t say if I was the reason for the nation yawning so coat my nose in cocaine tell me lies about falling in love. Woke up yet more famous and it hurts like hell knowing the price…
Roland Butler cleverly averted a prosecution under the cruelty to animals act, for the Idaho State Circus in 1964. The Circus which regularly travelled mid America with a host of ageing beasts, was playing in Houston Texas, home to one of the first cruelty to animal lobbyists, the notorious Paul Eldon.
Should PR be about selling a product at the expense of the truth? Amid the self-congratulatory back-slapping of the ‘Pubbies’ – America’s annual PR awards show – there was much talk of a brave new dawn. http://media.guardian.co.uk/marketingandpr/story/0,,1738259,00.html