Word: publicists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shoppers now coolly wait for prices to come down before buying. If they do not see what they want at the right price, they bide their time until prices drop. Says Ann Colwell, 28, a Dallas publicist: "It's a consumer-oriented Christmas," as if somehow it rarely had been until this year. She is waiting for Evan-Picone suits at Sanger Harris to go on sale. When they do, she will buy. Said Martin Tolep, economist for F.W. Woolworth: "By waiting, they're going to make some retailers frantic...
...hype." Scarcely a day goes by without an ad, a story or a skillfully planted gossip item about an overnight success, an out-of-town comeback, an agent's abject gratitude that some hot client continues to employ him. Says cable talk-show host Colin Dangaard: "A publicist in this town would rather have a story about a client in the Hollywood Reporter than in the Wall Street Journal. A lot of people may not get around to reading the Journal. " By contrast, as Agent Evarts Ziegler points out, "Everybody reads the trades -and early...
...Arnold Arboretum publicist was stabbed to death early yesterday morning in his apartment at 84 Prescott St., a block away from the Freshman Union...
...baseball seasons than the Los Angeles Dodgers? Hooray for Hollywood. Former Dodger Pitcher Don Sutton used to keep a telegram (and his perspective) tacked on his locker, six MILLION BEST WISHES, it read; signed LEE AND FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS. Sutton loved to laugh and say: "Nice of their publicist to do it." One wall of the Dodger Stadium office of Tommy Lasorda, the manager who kisses and hugs his players like a game-show host, is a shrine to Frank Sinatra. What better place to hang this year's championship than in the publicists' town, right up there...
...Angeles Publicist Philip Paladino, 45, paid $73,000 eight years ago for a house in Bel Air. Last month he told his wife: "Let's dump it. I think the market is going to crash...