Word: publicists
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...Vanilla Sky while Cruise was married to Nicole Kidman, still "talk all the time," his rep says. But their relationship was strained by the constant travel their filming schedules required, says her spokesman. Cruise recently dropped another leading lady in his life, his power publicist of 14 years, Pat Kingsley. Luckily for Cruz and Kingsley, the Last Samurai star's exes tend to land on their feet. Oscar winner Kidman will now lead us all in a round of I Will Survive...
...with David Letterman last week, the singer-actress babbled about drug charges she faces and repeatedly bared her bosoms. At a New York City club that same night, the rock widow allegedly tossed a microphone stand into the crowd, injuring a man and getting charged with assault. Love's publicist says, "She will be vindicated." The only person to profit from the display was Whitney Houston, whose entry into rehab earlier in the week was soon forgotten...
...this raises the old question, How to distinguish between a movie star and a celebrity? Both are commodities, but one gets consumed in crowded movie theaters, the other in checkout lines. Right now Affleck is Type B. His romance with Lopez sold magazines and newspapers, says a prominent publicist, "but they are all the wrong magazines and newspapers, particularly for an actor who wants to be taken seriously." Another high-ranking flack says, "He's got to stay out of the tabs. This town is fickle. There's always the next Ben Affleck coming...
RECOVERING. NEIL SIMON, 76, playwright and screenwriter, whose credits include Brighton Beach Memoirs and The Odd Couple; from a kidney transplant; in New York City. His publicist, Bill Evans, donated the kidney...
When a theater production bills itself as an epic, it's usually nothing more than a publicist's bombast. Yet when Robert Wilson's I La Galigo premieres in Singapore on March 12, it will be literally true: the four-hour spectacle of song and dance, mantra and martial arts is based upon a classic of Indonesian literature, an epic poem almost unknown outside the archipelago until now. The poem, also called I La Galigo, survives in thousands of fragmentary manuscripts and was written in an archaic Indonesian language that maybe no more than 50 people today are able...