Word: publicists
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...released this fall coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Elvis’ death. RCA hopes that the album will regenerate excitement about the King. “Over the next six months, you should expect to see Elvis reappear in popular culture,” says William Finkel, a publicist...
...released this fall coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Elvis’ death. RCA hopes that the album will regenerate excitement about the King. “Over the next six months, you should expect to see Elvis reappear in popular culture,” says William Finkel, a publicist...
...later arrested for fraud. Former TIME writer Kurt Andersen blurbs the book enthusiastically. "I was reminded of Roald Dahl's 'Boy' and 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'...Burroughs has produced a memoir that's funny and sharp but also humane, as charming as it is revealing." The publicist for this book optimistically predicts that this will be the next 'Nanny Diaries': "People are already talking about...
...When Rover lies, I try to explain gently what is wrong with falsehood. The Boy who cried Wolf is invoked. It's difficult to know how to respond to grown women lying. When I asked my colleagues about it they shook their heads at me sadly: ?A publicist lied? One for the ages!" But it wasn't the lying that got me. I lie. Recent news reports suggest much better writers than me have lied. Oh yeah, and presidents lie. It was the sheer stupidity of the lie. It was worse than my son saying he has already brushed...
...decided maybe just to regard it as tricking. Next time a publicist tells me something that seems implausible I'll just ham it up, twisting around and banging my head. Maybe then they'll stop all the nonsense...