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...more offbeat crowds. Says London Celebrity Tailor Douglas Hayward, "They were both enormously popular in a trendy, fashionable, hippie world." They also habitually picked up odd and unsavory people indiscriminately, and invited them home for parties. "Roman and Sharon had as much idea about security as idiots," says Publicist Don Prince. "They lived like gypsies. You were likely to find anyone sleeping there...
...types are naively shocked when told they will have to pay $2,500 for a week's display of Dr. Dolittle record albums in the windows of a Manhattan store. And how to get Rex Harrison to go to South America to plug the movie? Well, suggests one publicist, since the lobby-display pushmi-pulyus were made in Peru, "I think I can get him decorated by the Peruvian government for promoting cottage industry . . . The Condor of the Andes or something like that." Producer Arthur Jacobs asks: "Condor of the Andes first class or second class? You know...
With a natural merchandiser's instinct, she pushed her first book Every Night, Josephine!-a bonbon about walking her poodle-by putting it on display in Manhattan restaurants and even a delicatessen. Today, helped by her publicist-manager-husband Irving Mansfield, she is still at it. With inexhaustible energy and boundless enthusiasm, she assaults and attracts the public in a succession of day-by-day, city-by-city publicity campaigns. A typical day recently began at 8 a.m. It included a TV show, four radio talks, two newspaper interviews, a general press conference, and a visit with Beatle John...
Secure in the publicist's truth that out of the mouths of stars comes hot copy, Jackie strews absurdities, inconsistencies, generalities, banalities and wisecracks with calculated sincerity: Critics. Egghead-doubledomes! There are about eight influential critics and all they want is books that only they can understand...
...Times okayed an ad it had rejected as too violent after shotguns replaced machine guns in illustration. "Virgin" was barred from ad copy for Rachel, Rachel; it was approved for Goodbye, Columbus. As do some other papers, the Times has distributed a "screening code," but, says one studio publicist, "you just never know what they'll print...