Word: publicists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though some toymakers have reportedly tightened initial supplies to heighten interest (think Beanie Babies), Tiger had no such conspiratorial plans. "People need to realize that when we make toys, we make as many as we have orders for," says an exasperated Marc Rosenberg, Tiger's publicist. Before September, retailers had ordered 1 million, and a confident Tiger produced 1.3 million. But after all the publicity, perhaps 5 million could sell...
TUESDAY, NOV. 17 Electra's publicist issues a handwritten note, penned by Rodman, saying that he loves Electra and is "proud to be married to her." (And they're still married...
...down to avoid the dreaded high Cs, yet desperately does not want to leave the public spotlight. Like Bartoli, even Mr. P (as Hoelteroff affectionately calls the Italian tenor) is overshadowed by the more provocative characters surrounding him. Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti's "motor-mouthed, bullet-headed, forever-tan egomaniac" publicist, adds a touch of much needed vulgarity to the usually cordial dialogue. For him, everything the press writes isn't worth "a thimble-full of rat's piss." Always mentioned in the same breath as the faltering Mr. P is the superhuman Placido Domingo (everyone's second favorite tenor.) Hoelterhoff...
...sitting, as the comments on the back of the book jacket profess. For all of those sane, not-yet-obsessed opera fans, however, the book will take a little more effort. Although written in a relaxed, unpretentious style, the narrative is inundated with the names of every important performer, publicist, conductor and record company CEO in the business, not to mention the titles and allusions to plot synopses of most of the major operas. With the effort though, anyone who reads this will emerge from this book with a new appreciation for all of those "sublime sufferers and nuts...
...winning screenwriter's negative depiction of arrogant Harvard students in Good Will Hunting, he has been quoted as saying he'd like to come back at some point. For now, though, he's edging in on Gates' territory as most famous dropout; he's in Italy, and even his publicist's too cool to talk...