Borkowski spent the day with the PR legend Jay Berstein. To understand the influence that the American Entertainment industry has had on the world is to understand Jay Bernstein. The Hollywood Reporter said of him, “Jay Bernstein must have a direct line to God. When Jay starts talking, Hollywood listens.” Jay has the biggest Rolex…
Tony Kaye’s studio in Hollywood stores some of his extraordinary work. It emerges that the house was where Holbrook Blinn rehearsed Mary Nash to safely faint for a press scam that would try and make a name at the premier of ‘High Sign’.
This morning a pilgrimage to Burt Lancaster’s old house in Bel Air revealed a hidden story about his swimming pool. Burt allowed the pool to be used to house two penguins owned by a friend. The pool they lived in was being refurbished and Lancaster offered his own as a temporary sanctuary.
“Prince Charles regards himself as a ‘dissident working against the prevailing political consensus’, who scatters furious letters to ministers on contentious issues and denounces elected leaders of other countries…” The Guardian, 22nd February 2006 The dissident who would be King keeps hoping he’s the real thing, but angry letters from an ivory tower are a…
Oh happy day, I have found Cy Slocum’s original press book in the biography section of the Academy of Motion Picture library. It’s true he was represented by the mighty press man Wilton Locknaye.
This morning I paid a visit to the grandson of Nat Spinefeld at his Beverly Hills home. He told me all about the stunts his grandfather pulled.” Publicity was the only air that he breathed.”
Hollywood legend Freddie Fields, producer of movies such as Millennium, Glory, Poltergeist, Crimes of the Heart, Fever Pitch, American Gigolo, Looking for Mr. Goodbar and Lipstick, talks candidly about his life and times to a short plump ageing PR guru.
Reseaching the great Hollywood PR man, Borkowski takes a morning dip in the Beverly Hills hotel pool where Dexter Berrey hatched his scam to kidnap Roy Roger’s horse. How he was ever inspired in 80 degrees of water is a mystery.
As the local weather girl on KCAL “your source for Southern California’s breaking news” said this morning, ” Brrr its 52 degrees and if you going out this morning be sure to put on some warm clothes! ”
Somewhere off Sunset, in a tired old movie backlot . Tony Kaye secretly films the Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s new video.