Word: promos
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...that cult films are made. As Axelrod has said, "It went from failure to classic without ever passing through success." Now the filmmakers have their chance. The New York Film Festival coaxed Candidate from Sinatra last year, and the picture is doing robust business in six cities, as a promo for its spring debut in video stores. See? Happy endings all around...
Secondly, it's a film about the Rolling Stones, and as director Robert Frank admitted to me while signing promo posters in the lobby before the screening, "Anything concerning the Stones is by definition bound to create hype...
Thirdly, the promo people who are in charge of Frank's new film Candy Mountain have timed the showing of Cocksucker Blues to coincide with the release of the new film in an attempt to saturate Boston with a Robert Frank revival and, in doing so, gain a little extra publicity...
...happened like this: My pressbox seat was right next to the announcers from the Holy Cross radio station--WCHC, 89.1 FM, a new music station covering all of Worcester. The station's often-played promo intones, "WCHC--Listen...or Don't." In a moment...
...official version draws solely on the positive stereotype. A two-minute promo presumably filmed by the Athletic Department and aired during a televised Harvard football game showed the team captain, books under his arm, speaking as eruditely as possible on the moral advantages of a fine education and a non-scholarship team...