Word: superflack
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...offers and speaking requests are pouring in for MIKHAIL GORBACHEV. One of the more unlikely gigs was suggested by a Nevada impresario who wants to pay Gorbachev $1 million a year to play casino host and superflack. But House Speaker Tom Foley plans to make Gorby an offer -- and honor -- he probably can't refuse: an invitation to address a joint session of Congress. Foley's office expects to send out the all-expenses-paid bid in the next week...
Take a good look at the face. A really good look. Roll the name over your tongue. Julio Iglesias. Better get used to it, because if the "Spanish Sinatra" and his press agent, Superflack Warren Cowan, have anything to say about it, the name is about to become as familiar in the U.S. as it is just about everywhere else on the planet. Over the past 15 years, Iglesias, 39, has reportedly sold some 70 million albums worldwide. But you'd mention the name Julio Iglesias to most Americans and they'd say, "What?" At least until this...
Newman's hard-sell tactics have turned off some of the patrons who are most knowledgeable about the arts. His prose can be flamboyant or plain trashy. He once billed Cavalleria Rusticana as "hot-blooded romance, illicit love and violent vengeance, Sicilian style." But Newman is a superflack, not a philistine. He wants to make culture a pervasive American institution...
...carefully cultivated images of Miami Beach is the lissome body of a bathing beauty -the finals of one national and one international beauty contest are held there. A different-shaped image is Comedian Jackie Gleason, who last year was persuaded by the resort's superflack, Hank Meyer, to telecast all his shows from there, and is planning to build himself a $100,000 house just north of the Beach. Another image of Miami Beach is that of a grinning fellow with dark glasses and a palm-fringed background urging TV audiences to "Come on down...
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