Word: publicists
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...After a morning of these antics recently I came to work, dutifully shoving off such childishness, and took a phone call from the assistant of a publicist at BWR. Publicists are nearly always cheerful and helpful souls. Some of them, particularly those who represent multimillion-dollar corporations are very smart and incredibly scrupulous. Those who represent famous people, however, sometimes let the team down. BWR represents a lot of famous people...
...recently requested something from one such famous person. Famous in the Oscar-nominated sense of the word. As is customary with such requests, I put it in writing and faxed the letter through to the famous person's agent, who then passed it on to the publicist, who passed it on to the famous person, who usually takes a pass and the publicist passes that pass on to me. (I may have the actual order of the Chinese whispers back to front here, but you get the picture.) I submitted to this process even though I saw said famous person...
...know the rest. The next day I saw the famous person. I asked about the fax. My acquaintance had no knowledge of it and was sort of interested in my proposal. The feeling was familiar. The publicist's lie was so breathtakingly primitive and easily disproved. And since I had pointedly said that I would see the famous person soon at such-and-such a place in my fax, it was even more easily exposed than the untruths my son so clumsily perpetrates...
...they swear off homosexuality. On her talk show last Wednesday, O'Donnell--who recently came out as a lesbian--fumed that she should have been informed, and she demanded that her voice be taken off the Oscar-nominated documentary. "Let me just say I'm anticult," she said. Her publicist elaborated, "If Rosie had known the truth about this organization, she never would have consented to lend her name and voice." The film's lawyer responded that "the inflammatory accusation that certain people affiliated with the film" are in an organization that discriminates against gays is "without foundation." The filmmakers...
...actress; with hepatitis C, a potentially fatal but often treatable virus that attacks the liver; in Los Angeles. The former Baywatch star said she contracted it by sharing a tattoo needle with her rocker ex-husband Tommy Lee, whom she is battling for custody of their children. Lee's publicist denied he had the virus, saying Anderson was trying "to hurt Tommy and their two boys...