Word: publicists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...publicist, Jim Dobson, is even more optimistic...
...have just been massaged, pummeled -- and maybe had -- by some savvy movie publicists, the spin doctors of the entertainment industry. They operate in the slick new tradition of political handlers, whose job is to reduce a campaign to photo ops and sound bites, keep their candidates away from rancorous reporters and try, ever so discreetly, to manage the news. For a movie publicist, the methods and motives are the same; only the product is different. And by orchestrating the burgeoning infotainment press, a smart flack can detonate a bigger bang for the buck. Without spending a dollar on advertising (though...
NEVADA. The press secretary to Nevada Republican Senator Chic Hecht recently observed that his boss is ignored by Senate colleagues except for the times when they are ridiculing him for his syntax-mangling style. With a billing like that from his own publicist, Hecht obviously has problems in his race against Democratic Governor Richard Bryan...
...driven black woman. "She is one of the most directed people I know," says Dori Wilson, a Chicago publicist. "She wants to go straight to the top." Yet she is trying to relax a bit, cutting back on her travel and free- lance good deeds. "I used to take every phone call from a guy who said he would jump off a building if I didn't talk to him. But I no longer feel compelled to aid every crazy. For two years I have done everything everyone asked me to do. I am now officially exhausted." And unofficially still...
...into Night from the Yale Repertory Theater, Martha Clarke's Cocteau-like erotic fantasy Miracolo d'Amore from the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C. While the $4.3 million in available subsidies was welcomed, many in the city's arts community questioned whether the whole venture was needed. Explained Publicist Bruce Cohen, whose clients include several festival offerings: "New York City is an arts festival all the time. That's why we live here...