Word: publicist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arthur Mayer was a university professor, a Hollywood publicist, an importer of trail-blazing foreign films, the operator of a 42nd Street horror-movie house and, toward the end of his 94 years, a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee. Day after sweltering summer day he would sit in a cramped Manhattan screening room patiently enduring the tortuous eccentricities of directors from Rumania to Rodeo Drive. But when asked whether one of these angst marathons should appear in the festival, he would often as not growl: "Yes-if the producer agrees to cut it by 30 minutes...
...described by a publicist as a "very simple" wedding, but for the denizens of the Mexican town of Cabo San Lucas, the marriage last week of Rolling Stone Keith Richards and his longtime girlfriend, Model Patti Hansen, 27, was more flash than fiesta. Best Man Mick Jagger, 40, flew in from Barbados, where he has been under cover with Girlfriend Jerry Hall, 27. Richards' divorced parents were there: Doris, in from London, and Bert, in from New York. Also present were Patti's mother, sister, three brothers and a few fishermen. After the short ceremony, guests were treated...
...peak of violence: white mobs, dominated by servicemen on leave, made unprovoked forays over the Los Angeles River and into the east side, where they savagely beat any flashy young Mexicans (zoot-suiters) they found. The bigotry is not gone. "They can't hold down jobs," says Rosenfield, the publicist. "They're not educated. They're lazy...
...knew all his lines perfectly. The man was terrific. The professionalism of the man was unbelievable," publicist Dick Winters of Paramount Television in Los Angeles said yesterday...
...publicist Margo Zinberg said O'Neill's only mistake was that he wrongly tried to open the pub's door. She said O'Neill told them that since the tragic Coconut Grove fire in Massachusetts, a safety regulation in Boston requires that all doors in Boston pull open...