I love going to Sundance. It’s fun, cold, exciting, exhausting and intimidating. You rub elbows with stars, see amazing films and shorts, go to incredible parties and get terrific schwag. The air is electric with creativity and everyone is pysched to be in the entertainment biz. This what it’s all about, right? Making films that [...]
The TV biz is off to an incredible start in 2012! With YouTube developing entertainment channels, Hulu producing and premiering series, Yahoo Screen introducing creative short series and Netflix resurrecting critic and fan faves, the explosion of good content is amazing. TV now means short-form, long-form and any other kind of content that can be [...]
Okay, all you publicists out there. Just give it up on getting your clients on talk shows until mid-January. Unless you rep Matt Damon and can get him to wear an ugly Christmas sweater on the Today Show, nothing doing. That sweater things was pretty funny by the way. I feel sorry for the Today [...]
I know he pisses a lot of people off and his politics are a lot left of center for most people, but how can you not love the guy? This month alone, he has managed to make himself headline news at least three times. That’s a pretty good quota that must make his PR people [...]
What a stinkin mess! The Kardashian PR machine is on high alert again. Well, actually, I guess they are on high alert all the time with Kris as the helm. I mean, think about it, they must have planned this all along. Naming all the kids with the letter ‘K’, marrying Bruce Jenner and being [...]
Cause that’s a better headline than actress sues IMDB.com, right? Amazon owned IMDB.com is the entertainment business source for everyone in the industry. It is updated by those very people and by the Oz-like staff at IMDB.com. So this unnamed actress (of Asian descent, with an Americanized name, living in Texas) claims that she has [...]
I have to admit I was surprised by Lady Gaga’s topic choice for her visit with America’s head honcho. She chose to take up the issue of bullying, which I think is hugely commendable and very smart marketing as most of her fans are teens and tweens. I would have put my money on gay [...]
As a personal publicist, I feel for other publicists who have to go through the crisis of their talent’s overexposure with the release of nude photos or videos. But I also have to wonder, everyone in this business knows how the the game is played, so why the hell would you ever take the naked [...]
As a pop culture junkie, I can’t tell you how excited I am about the new face of daytime TV. With the departure of Oprah and the demise of the daytime soap, there are plenty of great shows stepping in to fill the void. The Chew sounds like a refreshing new take on food that [...]
I have been doing this for 20 years and feel like we PR folks have finally arrived. The advent of social media was a total boon for us; we are so used to taking everything on that no one else has time for or wants to own and this one was right in our wheelhouse. [...]
