Word: publicists
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...number of critics are annoyed at colleagues who supply blurbs in advance. "It fuzzes the line between the critic and the publicist," says New York Post reviewer Jami Bernard. "Crafting a sentence that would read well on an ad is not the kind of sentence that would look good in a review. It just brings shame on us all." WCBS-TV's Dennis Cunningham, one of the more restrained broadcast critics, blames the movie companies for "letting it be known that they want wretched excesses or nothing. There used to be people at the studios who wrote ad copy...
Critics more willing to play along defend their actions as perfectly ethical. Granger says she supplies copies of all her reviews in advance because the studio publicists would not be able to see them otherwise. "I feel I owe them a review, bad or good or mediocre," she says. "I don't consider it a problem because I treat all films the same way." Langfield insists that it is the studios' publicity tactics, not her reviewing, that have changed since she started in 1980. "Back then you never got a phone call from a publicist asking what you thought...
...forty. The Donna Tartt scenario would be impossible in Britain. The ascent there is slower than it is here in America where a novelist, having achieved some measure of success changes his hair, his house, his wife, his entire life while in Britain, a successful novelist considers taking his publicist to lunch." He admires the work of Cheever and Updike but resolutely adheres to his ambitious (if brashly stated) mission of renovating the English novel, unencumbered by the work of other writers...
Clearly, in addition to his distinguished law career, Dershowtiz is an excellent self-publicist. He wins both fans and enemies this way. In the time that it's taken me to transcribe, edit and introduce this interview, five friends and colleagues have taken time out to tell me their opinion of The Dersh. "He's sold out!" one said. "What a sham!" said another...
Quist has been so involved at Harvard, soactive in the community, that one might imaginefor a moment that he has been fabricated by somezealous publicist at the Harvard News Office orsome booster in Byerly Hall...