Handbags at the Labour conference – spat between lobbyists
I’ve just read a piece on SpinWatch on the recent spat between lobbyists at Labour Party Conference: http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/5160/29/ . Its will worth a look.
More from the Fame Formula juggernaut!
A busy day yesterday, starting off at the Groucho Club at eight in the morning. I was taking part in the Editorial Intelligence/HarperCollins panel. The discussion was: Does the Media Break More Celebrities than it Makes? I was joined by Clarence Mitchell, who represented the McCann family throughout their tribulations; Rachel Johnson, who writes for…
BBC Radio or Comedy Farce?
I literally couldn’t believe my ears when I heard Les Ross of BBC Radio Midlands interviewing (if that’s what you could call it) the writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli. It was far more akin to an Alan Partridge sketch than a BBC radio interview. Les Ross began with an inane question about whether Hardeep…
Girls and Corpses…
Thanks to http://www.radiobarking.com/ for turning me on to some rather good magazines Girls and Corpses? “Well, if you’re like me –explains the author, writer Robert Steven “Corpsy” Rhine– you like two things: beautiful girls and rotting corpses. So, I thought, why not bring these two great tastes together in one magazine?” Ahem!? http://www.oddee.com/item_96476.aspx
Twitter Takes Flight
Twitter takes flight Twitter made global headlines when James Buck, a graduate journalist, was arrested in Egypt for taking photographs of an anti-government protest earlier this year. On his way to the police station, Buck used his mobile to send the message “arrested” to 48 followers on Twitter, which ignited a worldwide campaign to get…
Palin Away
“I want you to get out in the real world and marry a rich man,” Joan Rivers told Big Brother contestant Emilia Arata earlier this year, when she took part in the show’s Celebrity Hijack. “If you’re smart, get a man with a heart condition, walk behind him, go ‘boo!’ and you’ll be set for…
Hockey Mom on Twitter
I don’t believe it, Sarah Palin is on Twitter http://twitter.com/Sarah_Palin Frankly I am more interested in the fake Palin http://twitter.com/FakeSarahPalin
Kentucky Fried Stunt
My Google alert threw something interesting up this morning: KFC officials used an armored car to move a scrap of paper from one secure location to another on September 9 th, guarded by a former New York police detective. Why? Because on it, Col. Harland Sanders had scribbled his original recipe for quick-to-prepare chicken, a…
Anatomy of a showmance: Why Kelly Brook plus Danny Cipriani equals glamour
Take two young stars, add the perfect styling, and what do you get? An A-list couple By Sophie Morris Thursday, 11 September 2008 Mark Borkowski, founder of Borkowski PR and author of The Fame Formula “The picture strikes me as an experiment from their publicists and agents to see whether these two have the commercial…
Ritsaert Ten Cate: A Memorial
“The reproductions are ubiquitous. A real sunset is infinitely more difficult to experience, even when it blazes before us. “ Death can be really cruel: last week it robbed us of the comic, anarchic life-force that was Ken Campbell and then swiftly tore the unique, reassuring and incandescent presence of Ritsaert Ten Cate from the…