I heard today that Howard Zieff had died – a name I’d not really encountered before, despite the fact that he’d directed a few breezy comedies like Private Benjamin, starring Goldie Hawn – but the obituaries made me sit up and take notice. It turns out that, when he started out in advertising, he was…
The Daily Mirror has an interview with Shilpa Shetty which takes up practically a third of the paper. I don’t think this will be the full stop on Shilpa’s story, but what is interesting for a media watcher is The Sun’s front page. The cover has been created as a response to losing the interview…
I hear on the grapevine that a company is going round the block claiming it’s blowing orthodox PR apart with a whole new publicity concept it has invented called “Buzz”. I might be inclined to say yo, ma man! this is so cool cos it’s like the word on the street, get what I’m saying,…