Word: publicists
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...policy wonks in various E.U. institutions, picking up language skills, contacts and a shared distaste for bureaucracy. With their personal websites, e-mail campaigns and regular appearances on high-brow talkshows, they know how to work the media too. Van der Laan, in particular, is a spectacular self-publicist. Last year, she sparked an unholy debate after she urged the Netherlands to break off diplomatic links with the Vatican because of the Pope's stance on family planning...
...decides that he would like his picture taken with Fonda. She politely accedes to his request. Pretty soon all the snappers want their 1/30th of a second with her. This is fan behavior, quite inappropriate for professional photographers. I gaze around and see that Fonda is unchaperoned by a publicist or boyfriend...
...wearing a very fetching kilt, and getting all sorts of unusual looks. I asked him if it had actually helped him secure any interviews. Apparently it had got him appreciative looks more than soundbites. He told me that he'd rather enjoyed the moment when an eager publicist had come down the line offering Quentin Tarantino's dad for an interview. He had even interviewed the father of the former wunderkind director in the hopes it would earn him brownie points on the next star. But alas, David Hasselhoff swept right by him. Perhaps it was because the "Baywatch" star...
...head toward a bearded man standing next to her, inquired if I knew that I was in the presence of a legend?! As it happens, I recognized the figure as '60s/'70s musician Dave Mason from previous encounters. The woman, one Laurie Henry (who described herself as his publicist), then proceeded to give me that purest of Hollywood art forms, the pitch: This parking lot encounter had been preordained. The movie "Traffic" had won four Oscars that night - and here I was standing with one of the co-founders of the legendary rock group Traffic! (This was a stretch...
...Here, looking embarrassed by this well-meaning publicist's words, was a musician who really had been a major contributor to late-'60s-early-'70s rock, and he was being shilled in a parking lot on the coincidence of a current movie title being the same as his band's name 30 years earlier! And the dubious claim of being an inspiration to a one-hit-wonder teen group whose claim to fame four years ago was a song called "Mmmmmmbop...