Four Questions It's no surprise that fashion boutiques hire publicists, but how many publicists open their own boutique?
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Redbone's publicists announced his retirement in 2015, citing health concerns.
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We pretended to be caterers, publicists, journalists, and other VIPs.
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It means going up against angry fans and angry publicists.
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The same will be true for advertisers, publicists and salespeople.
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Are they breaking off their engagement, or are their publicists?
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Publicists for Justin Guarini and Kelly Clarkson were up next.
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Calls and emails to Fisher's publicists were not immediately returned.
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Now publicists pitch the show to feature their celebrity clients.
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Publicists typically pitch candidates, said Lorenzo Soria, the group's president.
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I was a mystery, a complete unknown to publicists and photographers.
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And, it's helpful to publicists looking to build their business pipeline.
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At the moment, though, it's also a salvage job for publicists.
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A few publicists called me, and we chatted about their pitches.
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Curators and biennials receive brief mentions, while art publicists get none.
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Now he is surrounded by publicists and producers and a bodyguard.
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The need here isn't for designers or publicists but industrial sewers.
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Earlier Oscar campaigns had mostly been run by in-house publicists.
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Life as a Runway Publicists tend to stay in the background.
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The host's publicists didn't immediately respond to INSIDER's request for comment.
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In that job there are no agents, no publicists, no media training.
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"Fingers crossed!" several publicists wrote in emails to Mashable regarding the nominations.
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The "optics," as publicists like to say, could not have been worse.
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Within months, Sans Frontières had hired several other former Bell Pottinger publicists.
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Publicists for Ms. Karan released a statement on her behalf late Monday.
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But lawyers and publicists are not always forthcoming about their own clients.
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Two years later she married one of the show's publicists, David Tebet.
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The movie's publicists, DDA PR, would not confirm reports of the stroke.
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She didn't want Glamour to get a bad reputation with Hollywood publicists.
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Publicists had also been sure to send along talking points in advance.
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Swift's team of publicists were quick to clear that rumor up, telling E!
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A whole lot more democratization, and a whole lot less arguing with publicists.
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The entertainer, his publicists and his legal team have repeatedly denied the allegations.
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Sometimes it's cleverly planned by a celebrity's team of publicists and beauty pros.
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"We've all been through hell," one of the firm's former publicists told Variety.
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Please don't merely leave these important tasks in the hands of publicists, Tom!
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I don't have money or publicists or limos or fancy apartments in Manhattan.
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Sparks's publicists have not yet responded to a request for comment from Refinery29.
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Today, major label publicists mention their artists identify as "queer" in press releases.
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So now there are publicists acting on behalf of celebrities in their Instagram.
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Publicists and agents, trying to book in time with the 24-year-old.
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A half-dozen junior Prime publicists will also now work for PMK-BNC.
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It's where you can leapfrog publicists and aides and interact with your idols.
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"It could make for a great guest experience," one of the publicists said.
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Shafiroff's multiple publicists seemed thrilled to be serving on a team of rivals.
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His publicists Dick Guttman and Rona Menashe confirmed his death to USA TODAY.
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Efforts to reach several co-stars through their publicists were unsuccessful on Friday.
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You have to sell it to publicists, sometimes the managers or publicists are gatekeepers who don't really understand, and then if you can get to the celeb and figure out how to collaborate in a way that they feel comfortable.
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But when we're meeting with larger acts, I'll shadow one of the senior publicists.
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Publicists for high-profile clients and networks typically negotiate about what will be discussed.
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No surprise, some observers immediately wondered if the shots were staged by Swift's publicists.
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It's about the girl's publicists, which is why no one's ever written about it.
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No one knows the ins and outs of fashion brands quite like their publicists.
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"That's around the time dealers started hiring publicists," Cooper says with a small smile.
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The production's publicists said that full casting would be announced at a later date.
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Keke settles in a small white office space with three publicists and a photographer.
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For another group of publicists and Oscar advisers, that kind of thinking is immoral.
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Now she was in busy professional mode: Proenza Schouler dress, eyeliner, flanked by publicists.
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Mr. Cosby later thanked the television station for having his publicists on the show.
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There he assisted talent publicists and later became a coordinator for Nicole Perez-Krueger.
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Publicists for Ms. Witherspoon did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday.
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The only people who had a worse year than democrats were Harvey Weinstein's publicists.
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You don't feel the hand of advertisers, publicists or digital panic on every page.
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At a time when heavy bands and their publicists are practically resorting to Ancestry.
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I know a lot of folks have a publicist or the publishers have publicists.
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" Consuelos added that the reason for Reinhart and Sprouse's romance being off limits may have come from their team of publicists, noting, "sometimes the publicists jump in and say crazy things like they just want green peanut M&M's and stuff like that.
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Long waited for me in a conference room, flanked by two lawyers and two publicists.
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Sheran did not immediately respond to request for comment, nor did Ahr and Onfroy's publicists.
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A few feet away stand Ben McKenzie's publicists, apparently filtering access to the intense actor.
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A small team of smiling publicists stood on the sidewalk below in a semi-circle.
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Publicists on both sides of the equation "treat it like a business transaction," Ely said.
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I was left to deduce their identities through guesswork and the cooperation of skeptical publicists.
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Their publicists were especially disinclined to make their clients available to discuss such a topic.
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Dancing — and perhaps one or two savvy publicists — brought Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston together.
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Certainly some films feel more relevant than ever, which is helping publicists with their pitches.
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A typical campaign involves lots and lots of contact between studios, publicists, and the voters.
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Artists, writers, assistants, publicists, C.E.O.s, producers, engineers and women from all sectors of the business.
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On Sunday, the publicists said, no, he had never intended to talk about sexual assault.
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Artists, writers, assistants, publicists, CEOs, producers, engineers, and women from all sectors of the business.
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"His tactics are those employed by the shiftiest of agents, lawyers and publicists," he added.
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Questions for government officials or corporate executives are heavily filtered through publicists and communications people.
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Publicists tried to keep their clients dry and camera-ready, themselves getting soaked in the process.
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Publicists today, or a marketing person today feels much more creative and integral to the process.
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Publicists, managers, agents, profile writers, maybe even Kitsch himself, all seemingly forgot that Kitsch is funny.
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Still, the broadest and deepest harm is to women who can't afford expensive lawyers and publicists.
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We follow our gut over release schedules or sales numbers or what publicists want to happen.
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Johnny Depp is probably following the advice of lawyers and publicists to a T these days.
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After the game, he mouthed the dutiful, bland clichés encouraged by so many dull-witted publicists.
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The top 14 PR pros and publicists for YouTube creators, Instagram influencers, and other digital stars.
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I didn't have an invite, but unlike at movie premieres, there were no clipboard-toting publicists.
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A lot of the authors, publicists and editors I've talked to feel defeated by the circumstances.
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A lot of the authors, publicists and editors I've talked to feel defeated by the circumstances.
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The top 14 PR pros and publicists for YouTube creators, Instagram influencers, and other digital stars
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"It's easier to teach journalists P.R. than to teach publicists what news judgment is," he said.
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Farrelly thanked his cast, agents, publicists, production executives, family and the entire state of Rhode Island.
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When he signed a deal for "Crashing," Mr. Holmes decided it was time to hire publicists.
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Similarly, there will be a trio of haggard publicists, all working to clear their client's good name.
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THE Communist Party's publicists, though powerful and feared, are not known for their skill in winning audiences.
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The Manual gave readers step-by-step instructions on everything from booking recording studios to hiring publicists.
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Only the biggest companies had publicists; most craft distilleries were figuring it all out on their own.
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"Every single thing those publicists did and said was counterproductive," said Jeff Lindy, a Philadelphia defense lawyer.
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None of the producers, assistants, publicists, or crew milling around the set would tip me the wink.
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Publicists' rule is you generally wear black all the time for anything — even on the red carpet.
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Amazon had the platform, sure, but it was missing the magical human touch of editors and publicists.
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The entertainment world seems to run on the format: scripts, meetings, publicists, lawyers — it's all on email.
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That has long been a euphemistic term for editors who wrangle celebrities and are cozy with publicists.
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Awards prognosticators (nudged along by Sony publicists) had also been touting Mr. Spacey's performance as Oscar worthy.
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I have two publicists and an assistant at Little Brown, who have been helping me thus far.
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Her attempts to form partnerships with other power publicists, like Harriet Weintraub and Ms. Grubman, were short-lived.
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"If you're in good with their publicists, then you can get access to everything," one entertainment reporter said.
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Additionally, one of the genre&aposs most popular publicists, Kirt Webster , is embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal.
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"I told my publicists what happened and they said to say it was a car accident," McGowan says.
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These rankings still matter to artists, labels, managers, publicists, concert promoters, and others in the music business ecosystem.
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Her publicists kicked into high gear, sending out fresh copies of the manuscript scrubbed clean of the controversy.
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CNN has reached out to Alba for comment and neither she nor her publicists have issued any statements.
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Publicists build detailed spreadsheets of bloggers' tastes that help them guide who gets to see what, and when.
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Later that year, Jonathan Lehrle, one of the geopolitical publicists on the Oakbay account, also left Bell Pottinger.
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People then had publicists to keep their names out of the papers, and nobody'd ever been to Kardashia.
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Maybe I was more concerned with the pat-on-the-head comfort of white publicists and white actors.
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The life of Phoebe Jacobs, one of the great publicists and artist advocates in jazz, could fill volumes.
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In fashion, there are writers, editors, models, stylists, publicists, buyers, influencers, and more — and then there's Shiona Turini.
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That this is a talking point for the U.A.E.'s publicists does not make it any less true.
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Josh Levine, TMZ's first cameraman, told me that, once the site became successful, many publicists changed their strategy.
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But in 1981, King was outed as a lesbian, and her publicists told her to deny the claim.
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You may have passed publicists sharing baskets of jalapeño poppers with prospective authors in the adjacent dining room.
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The rest of the band, tour managers, publicists, and so on have to look out for those signs.
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Reports of "The Five" co-host's impending departure swirled for hours on Friday as Fox News publicists remained mum.
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The renowned Italian tenor is on the road with a crew of handlers and publicists larger than some startups.
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It mentions that Ellis hired publicists and even a psychic to help her with introductions to famous Hollywood types.
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" Spens says that a lot of "dissenting groups don't have publicists in the way that companies or governments do.
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A dream come true for both fandoms and publicists alike, this kind of Hollywood magic doesn't happen that often.
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He'll have to individually address many of the executive producers, the on-camera talent, the bookers and the publicists.
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It's unclear what the "real inside scoop" would have been, but this is a common tactic among Hollywood publicists.
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There are occasions when various interested parties — filmmakers, publicists and perhaps especially critics — would like you to think so.
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"We were under the impression that our approval was needed before going forward," wrote one of the NFL's publicists.
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Ever since, country-music publicists have made it clear to their artists, especially their female artists: Skip the politics.
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They are embedded into tabloid websites and quoted by magazines, as polished statements coming directly from publicists might be.
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Publicists for Ms. Williams, Mr. Wahlberg and Mr. Scott either declined to comment or did not respond to queries.
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Publicists for Hanks and Wilson, who are both 63, referred a request for comment to the actor's Instagram post.
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I thought the show might be, but I was just at home, learning lines, and then my publicists called.
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Each received an awards push, or at least an awards nudge, from publicists, distributors, studios or some combination thereof.
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Behind the scenes, though, the repeated questions regarding diversity have some publicists wringing their hands and others rolling their eyes.
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"Diego Maradona deeply regrets being unable to attend the world premiere of his film," a statement distributed by publicists read.
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Until then his treatment of women was an open secret among some of the film industry's publicists, lawyers and journalists.
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Well, I've already alerted Ora's publicists to your crimes, and will update this post if they get back to me.
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Both actors echoed the complaints of other Sundance stars, who are often whisked by publicists from one event to another.
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While accepting a Television Showmanship of the Year award at the Publicists Guild Awards Luncheon, Murphy dropped a few hints.
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Cosby's publicists were "completely misconstruing" and playing up that misinformation, which was also used in his defense strategy, she said.
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Publicists for EMC Bowery, which does PR for H.Wood, went to great — and sometimes strange — lengths to kill the story.
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Publicists' advance snippets showed senior staff stealing papers from the Resolute Desk and cabinet secretaries calling the president disparaging names.
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I reached out to several agencies that represent makeup artists, celebrity branding agencies, brands (including Marc Jacobs Beauty), and publicists.
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Gone from his head were the marketers, reporters, coaches, publicists and fans who had labeled him America's next Olympic star.
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That might sound a bit like pandering to producers and publicists looking to manage the first impressions of their films.
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For answers, I spoke to longtime studio executives, publicists, agents and even a few of this year's also-ran nominees.
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But publicists and others strategizing behind the scenes were more voluble, citing, among other causes, a certain jadedness among consumers.
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Celebrity publications may be becoming bolder because of the way publicists have started to interact with them: less and less.
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" -- Weinstein's publicists are sending reporters a 57-page PowerPoint presentation titled "The Proper Narrative for Addressing the Harvey Weinstein Case.
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In 803, no one knew quite how to exploit controversy and water-cooler conversation the way modern-day publicists do.
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Deciding to wade into this pressing matter, too, the Bagger put the question to publicists, agents, directors, producers and the like.
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The publicists who'd organized the trip are there with the manager of the Sanuk surf team and they're cheering for me.
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Still, even a partial opening of the mall — publicists said they preferred the term "style and entertainment destination" — is a milestone.
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Business Insider is launching a new power list of the top PR agents and publicists in the influencer and creator business.
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Publicists are also reportedly considering keeping their clients away from Seacrest on the red carpet, or forgoing the network all together.
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That anticipatory energy only increased when a group of smiling publicists confirmed that later, we'd get the chance to interview Mrs.
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In Hollywood, this has meant a well-oiled quid-pro-quo relationship between an army of publicists and certain media outlets.
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In the past decade dozens of singers, managers, producers, lyricists and publicists have been arrested for alleged ties to the Camorra.
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They are artists and publicists, assistants and executives, spanning both the major-label and independent music worlds, and across multiple genres.
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It's all about the retweets featuring conspiracies, vulgar personal attacks, celebrities in bikinis and celebrities in feuds created by their publicists.
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The show's publicists had already issued a news release naming him as one of the first-nighters expected to be there.
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The accountants, the lawyers, the publicists who sit in big glass buildings keeping everything together are the glue in the middle.
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Coming as no real surprise, an eighth Harry Potter book rose from the cauldron of J. K. Rowling's publicists on Wednesday.
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One recent sunny Sunday, a party of German seminary students and a pair of hotel publicists gathered for a canoe tour.
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In early April, the website began appending a list of sources to every article, including the names of elusive Hollywood publicists.
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He has spent little time on self-promotion and has no team of marketers and publicists that other publishers consider essential.
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Yet designers, egged on partly by the publicists who made money publicizing those shows, kept going broke trying to keep up.
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The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment, nor did publicists for "The Apprentice" executive producer Mark Burnett.
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An estimated 280,000 attendees show up, several thousand of whom are in the industry (which includes filmmakers, distributors, publicists, and journalists).
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Problem is ... the 2 people they robbed were a couple publicists unrelated to Rap-A-Lot -- a case of mistaken identity.
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" And an editorial about Larson's statements at the pop culture site Black Girl Nerds, which reports from festivals around the world and is listed on Rotten Tomatoes, noted that its publication has "had its fair share of pushback from publicists," citing being "ghosted from studio publicists when it comes to set visit opportunities and press junkets.
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This is just what the entitled stars and their batshitt crazy publicists put me and many other talented, hard-working reporters through.
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The festival grants credentials to directors, producers, actors, publicists, distributors, and journalists, who have to apply for a badge and be accepted.
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Most of the women are well-adjusted professionals: fitness and dance coaches, publicists and marketing professionals, and women who work in tech.
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All the while, accusations that the relationships were set up by publicists rather than being true affairs of the heart flew rampant.
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Celebrities meet, fall in love, and pop the question in a romantic proposal they'll later have their publicists leak to Us Weekly.
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An estimated 480,93 attendees show up, only about 5,000 of whom are in the industry (which includes filmmakers, distributors, publicists, and journalists).
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Dogs don't brag, and you rarely see them pontificating on news shows, so it's up to humans to act as their publicists.
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That, however, got overshadowed by news of publicists plotting how to steer their clients around Ryan Seacrest, a host of the E!
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Publicists send me news releases, and I keep an eye on what my friends and family on the West Coast are doing.
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A representative for Ms. Larson declined to comment, and publicists at Disney, which owns Marvel Studios, did not reply to emails Tuesday.
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Here's how Mr. Weinstein mobilized lawyers and publicists to make allegations of sexual assault by an Italian model in 2015 go away.
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I had spoken and worked with many people who knew him intimately: dear friends; his older son, Zak; his publicists and management.
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Most A-listers have their favorite tabloids and magazines and work with their publicists to get the best possible coverage in both.
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Other book publicists have received promotional boosts from the comedian Patton Oswalt on Twitter and the fashion designer Zac Posen on Instagram.
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Last week, his two publicists suggested he would tour cities to talk about sexual assault, including a stop in Alabama in July.
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A man who once rubbed elbows with some of Hollywood's biggest names only had attorneys and publicists with him in the courtroom.
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The easy, cynical conclusion is that studios and publicists are going through the motions to show that they are earning their keep.
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She is beloved but largely by people who only know her from seeing her on screen or reading stories controlled by publicists.
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Lloyd's has not yet filed a response to the litigation, and the company's publicists did not respond to a request for comment.
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During the trio's domination of the tabloid press, newspapers would spend millions on "buy outs" from publicists, particularly "kiss-and-tell" confessions.
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I one hundred percent believe that there are publicists that have to clean up spectacularly horrific messes on behalf of their clients.
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Is it possible that Lawson and those who would serve as her makeshift publicists are not the best interlocutors for her work?
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We're also told that some of the students have been getting help from high-profile publicists to field requests and schedule media appearances.
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Jason Elzy, vice president at Rhino Entertainment, Led Zeppelin's publicists, said there was no comment on the case from the British rock legends.
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A group of conservative publicists and intellectuals published a "declaration" of solidarity, signed initially by some 30 people, members of a conservative salon.
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" McFarlane, also the creator of "American Dad," went on to say Trump uses tactics "employed by the shiftiest of agents, lawyers and publicists.
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The Virtual Reality News Generator has been carefully designed to inspire technologists, journalists, publicists, and fans alike, with its authentic sounding news bites.
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Canal publicists asserted that the ship carried thousands of shipping containers, a load that would not have fit in the smaller, original canal.
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That money, in turn, allows publishers to run ads in magazines and on Facebook, send authors on book tours, and pay for publicists.
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By contrast, when a celebrity dies, we shift those duties to their family, agents, or publicists, while consuming these events from a distance.
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Mr. Yehiel, in addition to at least a couple of WeWork publicists, helped fill the yoga class, although his real love is Pilates.
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Much of this celebrity saga is happening behind closed doors, and Spears's family, managers, lawyers and publicists have declined to discuss her status.
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I'm sure these folks' publicists would love to have them get tons of national attention, but you wind up having regional geographic fragmentation.
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Workers often jump from one side of the fence to the other: Journalists become publicists, prosecutors become defense attorneys, bank regulators become bankers.
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There's an understandable sense to that: Publicists are less likely to complain if you err on the side of calling their clients rich.
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Puzzled, I asked a few Hollywood publicists if they could explain why the celebrity news media cared so much about the El Moussas.
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"You have these new Insta-artists who are being picked up by publicists and agencies to work on their celebrities," Mr. Bennett said.
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Big studio publicists, however, are paid to convince people to see their films, not to candidly discuss the quality of the films themselves.
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Rival publicists estimate that Netflix is spending $10 million to $20 million on award-season promotion, though some put that figure even higher.
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London (CNN)British actor Colin Firth and his Italian wife Livia have separated after 22 years of marriage, according to the couple's publicists.
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The publicists sent him to company stablemate Neil Diamond's house and brought all his west coast heroes to the show, such as Quincy Jones.
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The results of their study, published in the journal Visual Communication Quarterly, found three main types of selfie-takers: communicators, autobiographers, and self-publicists.
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The showrunner told the audience at the ICG Publicists Awards Luncheon that he wouldn't be casting any actors as Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.
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Peggy Siegal, the doyenne of New York publicists, had lunch aboard the vessel with Mr. Geffen in St. Barth's over the New Year's holiday.
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"The people that worked for her ... she was just so respectful and caring and thoughtful to her publicists and her agents," Lozzi told CNN.
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Barely a whiff of Emotional Sincerity, that deceptive fragrance sprayed by pop stars (and publicists) to dial online cacophony down to a mere murmur.
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Either way, the publicists for both the Academy and the entire cast of La La Land are going to have a very long night.
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But don't you think now we're at, this is maybe a year later, now publicists are back in there helping them do this stuff.
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Or, as the publicists at General Electric put it, if Kobe sat on Shaq's shoulders, the two of them could easily walk through it.
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In the meantime, some clever producers and publicists need to get to work on making sure those two meet up on the red carpet.
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The same ingredients were there: schmoozing, publicists' introducing their clients to an assembly line of Oscar and Bafta voters, and rubbernecking at the celebrities.
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Publicists haven't been sure what to do about blocks of hotels they've secured to show games because they can't book press to show up.
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The same is not true for literary agents and publicists who try to get clients on the speaking circuit — the more controversial the better.
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Publicists for other outspoken pro-Trump celebrities — including former Chicago Bulls player Dennis Rodman and singer Wayne Newton — also didn't get back to us.
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Music critics and publicists alike have formed a nasty habit of regularly referencing their sound when describing contemporary acts like Metz or Pissed Jeans.
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So what that means is that I do publicity for new signees, as well as share projects with senior publicists who have too much work.
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I know many of the curators, publicists, journalists, and other hands through which such decisions pass, and I know these are wonderful, thoughtful, good people.
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As someone that gets what feels like a million emails from publicists each day, it can be easy for one to fall through the cracks.
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Amid the outrage, Paul had an eight-hour emergency meeting with agents, lawyers, and publicists in which they decided he'd film a PSA about suicide.
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Earlier this month it was also crowded with friends, agents, publicists, producers, makeup artists and hair stylists, all hovering around the stand-up Esther Povitsky.
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Before court convened, a former "Cosby Show" actress stripped off her top and confronted Cosby as he walked to court, accompanied by publicists and police.
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Variety reported last year that celebrity publicists were reluctant to book their clients on her show, choosing instead to take their stars to Kelly's competitors.
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I started working with a lot of actresses, because once your name is on the cover of Italian Vogue, all publicists are interested in you.
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His publicists didn't respond to queries from WIRED and Google declined to say how many hours of audio it used to make the fake Legend.
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These are the students who will not only be the next generation's cinematographers, writers, and directors, but likely agents, publicists, and advertising executives as well.
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The caliber of guests got a little better, Howard's research got a little better, publicists out there started saying, 'Wow, that was a great interview.
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But he, too, vanished, without warning nor a clue to his whereabouts, sending a small army of sleek black-clad publicists into a panicked tailspin.
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"You're down for the count, champ," Kelly Swanson, one of Salita's publicists, told him as Salita chuckled and prepared to eat Shabbat dinner Friday night.
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Credits and other information are submitted from a variety of channels, including studios, distributors, publicists, entertainment professionals (an actor, a producer, etc.), and IMDb users.
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Among the reasons he favors Rome, he says, is that he's unlikely to bump into the designers, journalists, publicists and celebrities who define that demimonde.
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But in addition to being a strong writer, most successful novelists also need to be competent marketers, publicists, negotiators, public speakers, S.E.O. experts and more.
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Inside the List Though it probably gives their publicists heart palpitations, some best-selling novelists are choosing to enter the political fray on social media.
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Remember last week when Bill Cosby's two publicists said he planned a series of town hall meetings this summer to educate people about sexual assault?
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When the sandwiches were ready, Ms. Coolidge cut them into quarters and headed outside to share them with her meat-eating publicists — a vegan seduction.
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But sexual assault certainly seemed to be the focus of the talks when his publicists spoke on a television show, "Good Morning Alabama," last week.
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The truth is that scholars, publicists, and journalists all collaborate in providing poor understandings of the past and how we study it to the public.
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First up, my colleague Dan Whateley and I highlighted the top 14 PR pros and publicists for YouTube creators, Instagram influencers, and other digital stars.
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Public figures are in the hands of publicists and media consultants who use different tactics to try to get over in the face of scandal.
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He tells Bailey that he cannot die, there are too many lawyers and private investigators and publicists and stockholders dependent upon him for their livelihood.
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" European one-percenter DJs, bi-coastal publicists, and DJ agents who try to close deals mid-urination stream in VIP bathrooms live for "Ee-beetz-ah.
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In our State of the Industry series, fashion's most respected critics, editors, designers, publicists, and entrepreneurs discuss the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the industry today.
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On any of the four installments of the franchise, you can catch hip-hop publicists, event planners, promoters, producers, and artists, all of them Black women.
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The Trio of Haggard Publicists — Nicole Kidman, Thandie Newton, and Laura Dern All three will have cropped pixie cuts and will do a lot of yelling.
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When a celebrity strayed, some publicists would use their relationship with certain reporters to quash the story, in exchange for an exclusive, or a different spin.
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Personal choices made by individual publicists aside however, it appears that the business of crisis management itself is at a crossroads: pre-Weinstein and post-Weinstein.
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They tell me glaciers are melting due to climate change, but what if it's because movie publicists are being asked to blow hot air year-round?
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But for the celebs, publicists, makeup artists, hair stylists, and hundreds of others hustling behind-the-scenes, the festival is a grind (albeit a fun one).
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As an alternative, the show's publicists at one point sent journalists Hershey bars camouflaged as Wonka bars — sheathed in gold foil with a purple outer wrapper.
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But the hysterical frenzy that once surrounded the event has been fading for some time, at least among top celebrities, three longtime publicists said in interviews.
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Two city publicists accompanied her throughout our dinner, keeping an ear out from across the table to ensure that the interview didn't fly off the rails.
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The show's publicists have said that the musical will focus on the period of time leading up to Jackson's "Dangerous" world tour which began in 1992.
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Publicists tend to think in terms of, "What is there to write about?" with regard to a record, so you start concocting a narrative behind it.
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But one of Tyka's publicists, Al Gomes, tells PEOPLE that the two made a deal as kids, one that would define their relationship for years to come.
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They used to be completely curated by their publicists, and now, with the seemingly limitless access we have through Instagram and Twitter, it gets so much messier.
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Mr. Kenworthy steeled himself, as a half-dozen friends, publicists and Nordstrom executives looked on; the atmosphere took on the jittery excitement of a middle-school dance.
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In an industry where publicists come and go, Ms. Siegal has lasted for 216 years, even as the era of publicist as star seems to be passing.
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Filmmakers who hope to find funding and distribution for their films spend their days at Cannes networking with financiers, distributors, and publicists from all over the world.
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As we were working on the story, publicists at EMC Bowery, which does PR for H.Wood properties, caught wind of it and deployed employees to run interference.
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I will spend 72 hours, moving stealthily among armies of watch journalists (some 4,000), watch executives (representing hundreds of brands), watch publicists, watch obsessives and watch celebrities.
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Avrich interviews multiple critics, but art publications seemingly don't merit their own section — maybe next time, some of the previously unmentioned publicists could help elevate our profile.
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Half the people there seemed to be chaperoning the experience in some way; publicists hovered around the edges room with iPads, and Sirius staff walked around purposefully.
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The column's success was due in part to Smith's own celebrity status, giving her an insider's access rather than relying largely on tipsters, press releases and publicists.
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But Dr. Blasey, surrounded by her lawyers, publicists and a sisterhood of friends who had convened to support her and zealously protect her privacy, said her piece.
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Last week he acknowledged the ubiquity of the #MeToo moment — though not his place in it — during an appearance with publicists at an Italian restaurant in Philadelphia.
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But even in familiar rituals like the red carpet, the diversity issue came up, raised particularly with minority celebrities (possibly to the relief of many white celebs' publicists).
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The first week of January brings a second Christmas for moneyed fans of the world's biggest pop stars, washed EDM DJs, and singer-songwriters with high-powered publicists.
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Like the storied publicists of the past, Hope Hicks has excelled by protecting the image and ego of the organization — in this case, President Trump — that she serves.
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For those who did partake — a mixture of celebrities, publicists and journalists — a tented, air-conditioned carpet served as a shield from the 80-degree temperatures and sunshine.
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There are roughly five publicists for every journalist working in the US today, and a reporter engaging with a PR team can often feel they are being manipulated.
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By now, however, contenders have been publicly queried about diversity so many times that their publicists more or less roll their eyes in response to the inevitable queries.
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I've reached out to Jenner's publicists to see if they could give me an estimate of when to expect the masterpiece, but so far have not heard back.
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Album reviews certainly still matter to artists, writers, and publicists, as they are the ones dealing with them every day, but does the average listener still pay attention?
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Celebrities and their publicists can use Csnaps to break news, share newsworthy announcements or get ahead of a story, with the proceeds directly benefiting important causes, says Ahern.
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MikkellerIf you ever find yourself in Copenhagen, seek out Mikkeller, a tiny hole in the wall spot that is to beer geeks what Tulum is to fashion publicists.
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Peggy Siegal, one of New York's most powerful publicists, has spent over 30 years connecting New York's tastemakers to generate press and awards for the films she represents.
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But neither the publicists nor their clients can renounce the strain of Islam on which the Saudi state was built, and old habits sometimes prove difficult to suppress.
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As the police and prosecutors investigated the model's allegations, the movie mogul set in motion a team of top-shelf defense lawyers and publicists to undermine her credibility.
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That very day, Ms. Dacus was fielding interest from the major labels on down, along with publicists, booking agents and other background actors who make the business tick.
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Increasingly, book publicists are working to get new hardcovers into celebrities' hands — not in hopes of a film option but a simple tweet, Instagram photo or Facebook post.
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My publicist Mike Liotta, the Annapurna publicists, Daniella, Jesus, Seth, Marvin, who have been championing and working their asses off to get people to come see this film.
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A film's campaign narrative basically amounts to whatever trick a team of publicists can use to promote the film as a compelling, deserving contender relative to its fellow nominees.
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Page Six reported that publicists have been instructed to shuttle the "softball" interviewees to Seacrest so that he won't have to face tough questions like Rancic did in January.
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They gathered to speak candidly about the enormously complex issue tormenting this community, a loosely defined but close-knit circle of critics, bloggers, filmmakers, publicists, programmers and independent cinemas.
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Most independent bands, strapped by the financial realities of making music on their own, can't afford publicists to pump out their music to ears and inboxes across the world.
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Brown thanked her parents, her publicists ("you guys are like my best friends"), director Sean Levy ("one of the best directors I've ever had the pleasure of working with").
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Actors, producers and directors hoping for attention from Oscar voters zealously work the ballroom, often leaving their food untouched, while publicists try to steer entertainment reporters toward their clients.
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" Publicists on the account contacted a prominent South African journalist, Stephen Grootes, telling him that, if he agreed to sign a nondisclosure agreement, he could interview "an important person.
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I've reached out to the management companies and/or publicists who represent each of these actors informing them of the fake videos, and will update if I hear back.
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But what nobody realizes is that we skipped over the most important part of her pregnancy story, the part that the media and Kate Middleton's publicists keep securely hidden.
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It encompasses artists, institutions, critics, curators, publicists, convention centers, journalists, graphic design firms, security, technical infrastructure, logistics, bus drivers, airline personnel, transportation hubs, hotels, restaurants, and on and on.
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Heed this golden rule, future sauce publicists: If you're available as part of a new gimmick item at a major fast-food chain, you're just not that cool anymore.
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It seems that the professors responsible for the research did not want to make trouble by pointing out that their work was being misrepresented by the task force's publicists.
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The most famous ones in particular have armies of publicists, communications strategists, and the like hired to keep them on message and prevent them from saying anything off brand.
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Fifteen members of the academy's publicists branch, for instance, are vying for its open board seat — the one Ms. Boone Isaacs has held for two consecutive three-year terms.
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I told Lyndsey's publicists that I wished to use my dictaphone, and that, although I didn't need to publish Lyndsey's real name, I wanted to know what it was.
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While industry insiders say that labels and publicists often hire consultants to strategize on reaching the most Grammy voters, executives at 300 denied making any special push for Highly Suspect.
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And then there are the institutional economies that emerge from each of these trajectories — auction houses, galleries, museums and the people they employ, including administrative staff, curators, publicists, and critics.
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Traditional publishing is heavily reliant on an army of writers, agents, editors, and publicists who use their knowledge of the industry to figure out what's worth publishing and what isn't.
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Late Thursday night, The Hollywood Reporter reported Lochte had hired one of the top crisis publicists in entertainment, sports and politics — Matthew Hiltzik — to help him deal with the scandal.
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I am not running for office, so I don't think I need to give explanations... Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I get annoyed... Mostly, I tell my publicists, 'Let it be.
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After thanking her publicists, lawyers, and Maisel co-stars, Brosnahan made sure to mention two important people on set, who don't get as much praise as she felt they deserved.
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So we were talking about how now Instagram became the place that they would go, but now publicists have reclaimed the Instagram because now it's like popular to do it.
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Instead, he has become an American exemplar of Italy's transactional culture, its sometimes provincial sensitivity to the view from abroad and its porous lines between journalists, publicists and political operatives.
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It was the equivalent of a neutron bomb going off in Hollywood, which came to a virtual standstill as stars, agents, producers, studio executives and publicists discussed almost nothing else.
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A Notes apology, like an Instagram selfie, gives the audience a feeling of unique access to the "real" star, seemingly unmediated by the polishing hands of publicists, editors, and photoshoppers.
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Also seated at the table on this spring day were two publicists, a brown Chihuahua named Bandit and Sarah Kate Ellis, the chief executive of Glaad, the L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy group.
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Publicists and agents guiding male clients through this unusual awards season said it was highly likely that some of the men were terrified of making missteps on the world's stage.
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The rapper and his new rumored love interest both posted the couple-y photo, which means they're either Instagram-official now, or their publicists just want us to think they are.
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Publicists stonewall and withhold information, they spin or plant seeds of doubt, and they're paid much, much more to represent people that other sources are swearing are guilty of serious misconduct.
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Celebrities can peer back into the minds of their fans, who, thanks to those very same platforms, are curating their own public personas as carefully as studio publicists of the past.
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Athletes today are scrubbed and polished, antiseptic to such an extent that doctors could safely and hygienically remove any remnants of their personalities the PR professionals and publicists failed to excavate.
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Once inside the giant Nintendo-branded box, guests were awarded with a gargantuan recreation of Zelda's world, stuffed with gaming stations, a lifesize Link statue, and a gaggle of roaming publicists.
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And the kingdom has stepped up an aggressive public relations campaign in the West, hiring American publicists to counter critical news media reports and fashion a reformist image for Saudi leaders.
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The story, which you can read about in full at New York, centered on allegations of Berru's sexual misconduct towards women in the music industry—including musicians, fellow publicists, and writers.
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Gossip Cop relies heavily on celebrity publicists to knock down rumors about their famous clients, so it's tempting to dismiss the site as a public relations arm of the entertainment industry.
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The "emergency relief agreement," which was announced late Friday, was negotiated by the Broadway League, a trade group, with 14 labor unions representing various workers, including ushers, makeup artists and publicists.
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And while that job can be hard enough with all the money of a big imprint behind you, it could be particularly difficult for those publicists coming from small, independent presses.
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While his publicists say they have been working on his immigration status for at least two years, the majority of people found out about his international roots on Super Bowl Sunday.
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While publicists, particularly ones who represent performers, will often request reporters' questions be focused on the event that's taking place, it's considered highly unusual to oust a journalist for not complying.
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"Personal publicists everywhere are preparing their clients for the appropriate thing to say," said Dennis Rice, a marketing consultant and academy member who ran awards campaigns while working at Miramax and Disney.
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It's also spoken by "bi-coastal" publicists, and DJ agents attempting to negotiate deals and contracts in artist's trailers backstage at music festivals while simultaneously trying to score some grade-A blow.
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It's up to lawyers how closely they want to work with publicists, but often it's a dance between what the lawyer thinks is right and how the publicist wants to spin it.
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A large network helps generate conversations and potential leads down the road, but keeping it this way could compromise the depth of "collaboration" — a word that's too often co-opted by publicists.
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And because there's such backup when they're coming in, their publicists will just tell them to exit the carpet and all of the photographers will lose their minds because they missed somebody.
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Each one has an entire ecosystem of painstaking work behind it, with celebrities, film studios, stylists, publicists, and designers all collaborating — but also jockeying to control — the images they're trying to sell.
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Once publicists began to realize how successful the site was becoming, they started tipping off photographers about their own clients, who they were originally trying to protect from sites like TMZ.9.
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TV producers, on-air correspondents, and publicists are just a few of the very important cogs in the big celebrity machine, and they let us know how it all comes together. 1.
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The Grootes interview, meanwhile, was uploaded to YouTube with a comment referring to a nickname for the account, Project Biltong, that was known only to the publicists who had worked on it.
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When I was ushered inside by a slew of publicists, I was greeted with Chris Brown's "Party" bumping so loud I felt like I was in a nightclub and endless Kylie products.
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The "emergency relief agreement," announced Friday evening, was negotiated by the Broadway League, a trade organization, with 14 labor unions representing a range of workers, from ushers to makeup artists to publicists.
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David Letterman once terrified stars (not to mention their publicists and managers) so much that the fear of being a guest was the subject of a short story by David Foster Wallace.
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In a 2012 interview conducted by U.C.L.A.'s Center for Oral History Research, Ms. Jones recounted how at the time of Soul's founding, there were no black publicists working for record companies.
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Once upon a time, Globe attendees also bellied up to the open bar in a boozy spectacle, but nominees — heeding the scolding eyes of their publicists — have largely started sticking to water.
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Several gaming publicists that VICE Games spoke to signaled it's already been tough to book appointments with press in the past several weeks, and expected this news to make things even worse.
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WHEN PEOPLE DISCUSS publicists — an admittedly small group — conversation usually centers on whether they lied on behalf of a client or said yes or no to a journalist's request for an interview.
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"I don't even know if I can think of one," said Mr. Hinton, who has a level of candor, even chattiness, that for better and perhaps for worse, is uncharacteristic of publicists.
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So, Ms. Shaw said, actors of color should make their displeasure known and make sure that their representatives — agents, lawyers, publicists and the like — do not turn out to all be white men.
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We got the "So You Think You Can Dance" judge Tuesday in Bev Hills, and he thinks the real reason A-list actresses avoided Seacrest at the Oscars is because of their publicists.
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If you want a dark peek into how the sausage is made, I routinely have publicists pitch me on an artist by touting their social media numbers ("64k Facebook / 39k Instagram / 23k Twitter").
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The actress Sheridan Smith has taken a leave of absence from the West End production of "Funny Girl," the production's publicists said Thursday, citing "stress and exhaustion" as the reasons for her departure.
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In this week's annual vote, about a third of the seats on the academy's board of governors — elected by various craft branches, representing directors, actors, publicists and so on — are up for grabs.
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It seemed perfectly plausible that a renewed appreciation for YA dystopias would follow shortly thereafter — indeed, according to the dozens of publicists who contacted me with breathless pitches, such a future was inevitable.
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That's one reason why the segments can be so cringe-worthy, perhaps especially when they involve people who don't have armies of publicists and chiefs of staff to arrange and negotiate media appearances.
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I will spend hour after hour donning faux-silk gloves and huddling with watch company publicists in windowless rooms, throwing back free espressos while I inspect hundreds of the splashiest wristwatches of 2016.
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Celebrity publicists now must contend with a volatile, web-driven, 24-hour media culture — on a global scale — that has forced them to become less the cautious gatekeepers and more the frenetic multitaskers.
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Political agendas, partisan slants, a porous line between journalists and publicists (who call themselves journalists), anonymous reconstructions, conspiratorial tones and little accountability for false reports have riddled the credibility of the Italian press.
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It isn't easy to be a lightning rod, I thought on the way out, as publicists with faces frozen in rictus grins did their best to usher showgoers past another anti-fur demonstration.
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Though their music shared a meditative ethos, Mr. Gorecki, Mr. Tavener and Mr. Pärt were mostly unaffiliated with one another: "Holy minimalism" was a category largely invented by critics and maintained by publicists.
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Behind the scenes, though, Mr. Weinstein dispatched a team of defense lawyers and publicists to undermine Ms. Battilana's credibility, a tactic employed by Mr. Weinstein for decades to silence allegations and threaten accusers.
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No matter what age you are, stepping out in front of a crowd of reporters and photographers and publicists is probably confusing, and Stormi had no issue letting her face show that emotion.
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After highlighting the top talent managers and the top talent agents in the YouTube influencer space, Business Insider is now putting a spotlight on the top PR agents and publicists in the industry.
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West admits she has a lot of help (a handful of nannies, assistants and publicists), but she says she does also have two tricks that help "keep her sane" when she feels overworked.
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Most travel publicists are required to travel for their job to pitch new clients, familiarize themselves with properties they represent, take journalists on press trips or to participate travel trade shows and conferences.
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Publicists at Doubleday and at Bloomsbury, her U.K. publisher, said that on no account was I to attempt to discover Lyndsey's real name, or the names of other people described in the book.
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But it's her cyclonic private life that fascinates as a multitude of producers, publicists, masseuses, doctors and makeup artists help manage her workday and the pain caused by a hip fracture in 2013.
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In that context, publicists need to examine their own consciences, yes, but also assess the potential risk to their companies if they choose to keep or take on that that person as a client.
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Those types of designers need help more than anyone and some more established publicists don't want to touch them, because they don't have enough money or because they're not going to get in Vogue.
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The whirlwind romance between Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra is so perfect it's almost like it was created in a lab, or, you know, manufactured over a few martinis by the pair's respective publicists.
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On Friday, during an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America," one of Mr. Cosby's publicists invoked Till when asked whether the dozens of women who have accused Mr. Cosby of sexual abuse were lying.
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Assistants and producers and actors and publicists and colleagues (and "procurers" to make things even grosser) -- that this was such an open secret speaks to the normalization of treating women as casually disposable objects.
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Cindi Berger, chief executive of PMK-BNC, said that two well-known publicists, Joy Fehily and Michael Donkis, who ran a boutique agency called Prime since 2009, would fold their operations into her company.
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There were a few smiles exchanged while the two fought to a draw at Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots, but for the most part, each fighter hung back with their entourage of publicists, trainers, and relatives.
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Some said it was because their companies (or publicists) needed to approve anything they would say, while others gave reasons that painted a picture of a community hobbled by fear, self-interest and hypocrisy.
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At issue now is whether or not Hollywood can continue its old way of doing business, with self-styled "outlaw" executives and auteurs getting away with sexual misconduct as lawyers and publicists protect them.
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The Bagger has heard that publicists for "Black Panther" breathed a sigh of relief when the popular-film Oscar was abandoned last week: Now, this film can make a play for the real deal.
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He was in his element, though, when he championed small, family-run establishments where publicists and wine lists were unheard-of and English was often a second language, if it was spoken at all.
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They met privately with him, Ms. Erivo and others; publicists traded a draft apology from Mr. Kagan and a draft response from Mr. Onaodowan; there was discussion about holding postperformance discussions on diversity issues.
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After the publicists and assorted handlers (all of them women) left the room, the Bagger made repeated, futile attempts to get Mr. Bridges — who was making coffee with one of those pod machines — talking.
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Because publicists only send Gizmodo bullshit we don't want, we did not receive the press release for the show and don't have much more info, but Curbed reports that it'll debut in April 2020.
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At the height of his popularity, publicists would dress him in tuxedos and parade him through airports or book him an interview with David Letterman, to keep up — and poke fun at — the charade.
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As the #OscarsSoYouKnowWhat furor mounted in the wake of the Academy Award acting nominations of all-white actors, so did an anxiety, among nominees, publicists and anyone who might find themselves on a red carpet.
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If you haven't already heard from a couple label publicists about meeting for tacos and margs, maybe tweet that you're going to South By just to let people know you're gonna be in the mix.
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Renée Zellweger gave a touching speech at the 54th annual ICG Publicists Awards Luncheon on Friday, where her longtime publicist Nanci Ryder — who has been battling ALS since 2014 — was honored with the President's Award.
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In 1908, when Jack Johnson became the first black world heavyweight champion, it triggered mass culture shock in white America—and ushered in a golden opportunity for publicists, newspaper publishers, and proto-Trumpian hype-men.
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Perhaps most notably, Mr. Gibson — assisted by savvy Lionsgate and Rogers & Cowan publicists — has re-established himself as a player in Hollywood after a decade when his offscreen behavior made him a movie industry pariah.
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Throughout, the speeches offered a full-throated celebration of the craft of acting -- filled with familiar expressions of just being honored to be nominated and thanks to the usual assortment of agents, publicists and family.
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Ms. Kilner learned in January that Mr. Truaxe might be dead from reporters emailing one of Deciem's publicists: one last awful piece of news that strangers had access to before Mr. Truaxe's work family did.
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Mr. Elba does not look away at his phone, at the waitress when he asks for a knife, at his publicists trying to hustle him along or at his steak salad and steak and eggs.
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Back in the day, when New York papers were full of stories about him cheating on his wife, Ivana, with an aspiring actress named Marla Maples, he had a squad of publicists on the case.
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With our contestants' welfare at the forefront, we have spent a lot of time discussing every layer of the situation with human resources, diversity and inclusion representatives, show therapists, lawyers, publicists, and standards and practices.
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So as not to dilute their fury, so as not to lose one moment of heat for the cameras, the publicists brought them to me separately through secured hallways, like Hannibal Lecter on his gurney.
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UPDATE [August 7, 2015]: The remaining publicists employed by Life or Death announced Wednesday afternoon that they are leaving the company and will start a "new venture," according to a statement provided to The Fader.
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There's no A&Rs aside from the artists themselves, no managers, and no publicists, making it possible for Amobi and other NON-artists to connect with fans without having to worry about anybody else's bottom line.
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Kaufman said in her experience it's not uncommon for entertainment journalists to be at the mercy of publicists, adding that she's encountered press reps who don't want to work with her because of her #MeToo coverage.
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On Monday night, Anthony Scaramucci invited friends, publicists, and reporters to the basement of the Hunt & Fish Club, his swanky New York restaurant, to announce the launch of a cryptic new media venture, the Scaramucci Post.
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When we get back to the hotel I flag down one of the publicists and float the idea of getting more time with either McKinnon or Feig to do a really fleshed out, personality-driven feature.
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Holding her own among jostling publicists and handlers, she took a few minutes to talk about her outfit, her advice for fainting models and her thoughts on how a fashion show compares to a gymnastics competition.
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A week after asking whether or not they censor anti-Nazi content, and after submitting my music through them and paying the fee to enroll, TuneCore's team of publicists sent me a response from their CEO.
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That love is the work, months in the making, of a small army of stylists, designers, agents and publicists conspiring to dress the evening's stars and drape them in millions of dollars' worth of borrowed jewels.
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The idea that stars manipulate their lives off of the screen and stage in order to further their careers is not a new one; orchestrations between publicists, lawyers, and tabloid journalists are a well-known Hollywood staple.
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Yesterday, she held the first presentation for her new brand, Scout's General, on the third floor of the bistro Tiny's in TriBeCa — and without any pushy, iPad-wielding publicists or doormen in sight, the atmosphere was serene.
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Its creation story, which involved the founder wanting to help his fiancée trade Pez dispensers with like-minded collectors, has only the flimsiest link to human connection — and is in any case a myth invented by publicists.
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As a music journalist, I'm grateful to be afforded certain privileges that people outside of The Industry often are not, like access to the guestlist, relationships with DJs and publicists, and countless weekends of experience charming bouncers.
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When "presented with the offer to perform for an international and mixed gender audience in Saudi Arabia, Mariah accepted the opportunity as a positive step towards the dissolution of gender segregation," Carey's publicists told the Associated Press.
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Publicly, everyone in Hollywood says the same thing, almost as if reading from talking points written by publicists: We applaud this long overdue progress and will do everything in our power to make sure the culture changes.
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"With our contestants' welfare at the forefront, we have spent a lot of time discussing every layer of the situation with human resources, diversity and inclusion representatives, show therapists, lawyers, publicists, and standards and practices," he said.
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Entertainment journalism poses more ethical problems than most with its paid movie and TV junkets to exotic locations, fancy meals and armies of publicists, managers and film studio staff who decide who gets access to glamorous celebrities.
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This iconic restaurant at Beverly Hills Hotel is casual yet highbrow (it boasts top notch service from staff in white suits), and it's a regular spot for A-listers meeting with their agents, publicists and Hollywood executives.
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While he introduced a successful Meatless Monday menu at the otherwise omnivorous Dovetail in 2010, Nix has gone fully vegetarian—or "vegetable-forward," as many chefs (or, more likely, their publicists) are styling such restaurants these days.
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In person, it's much easier to get a sense of the massive number of people required to create television; writers, producers, publicists, casting agents, lawyers, accountants, and all the various cogs and wheels that make the machine run.
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I imagine April Fools' Day is like a pagan festival for publicists, copywriters, and junior marketing directors, who on the first of April get to ignore their bosses and put that MBA in Creative Writing to good use.
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Airline cabin crew, like pilots and flight attendants, get to see the world on company dime and other professions related to travel have the same perks, like hotel managers, travel agents and publicists at a travel PR firm.
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These days, too many publicists and executives are quick to anoint projects with a #MeToo label, in hopes of establishing relevance through association with a swelling movement, but Dietland is the rare show that actually meets the criteria.
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When asked for comment from PEOPLE, both Luann and Tom's publicists agree the reports were erroneous — the Real Housewives of New York City star's rep saying "this is all false" and a rep for Tom seconding the statement.
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He's assembled a crack music industry team of high-octane publicists and booking agents who coordinate with his manager and record label, Reflections Records back in Switzerland, who have helped guide him through the pitfalls of unexpected stardom.
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It isn't easy to be a lightning rod, I reflected on the way out, as publicists with their faces frozen in rictus grins did their best to usher showgoers past one of the several aggressive anti-fur demonstrations.
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Actors and publicists are grappling with how — or whether — to address the sexual misconduct scandals shaking Hollywood through the three-month stretch of campaigning, and the succession of lesser awards shows, that culminate with the ceremony March 4.
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The news conference and junket — which entails having reporters hop from one hotel room to the next to interview the movie's principals for scant minutes as publicists count down the time — were to be held the next day.
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The streets of Park City, Utah, were again crackling this weekend with the energy of filmmakers, producers, critics, celebrities, reporters, publicists and film-loving tourists as they all converged on the city for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
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In accepting her trophy for best supporting actress, King thanked her publicists and then, refusing to leave the stage as the orchestra started up, spoke about the need for equal employment opportunities for women, in Hollywood and elsewhere.
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And so the CEOs (or, more likely, their very well-paid publicists) strung together some words to convey that they care about their users while at the same time evading any culpability for whatever the latest screw-up was.
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Cannes, France (Reuters) - Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona is set to miss out on the Cannes premiere of a documentary about his life and career, due to "a shoulder injury requiring medical attention", the film's publicists said on Sunday.
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Publicists for both the brand and Rihanna declined to provide comment, so we can't get confirmation the line is actually a go, or if its tagline riffs off of the singer's hit single, "Sex With Me" (as we'd prefer).
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While many book publicists invest their time in arranging interviews for authors on talk shows and appearances in bookstores out of town, Mr. Loverd's priorities were to captivate the critics and to celebrate a book's publication with a splash.
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At around 9:30 AM on Sunday, about half a dozen web developers, photographers, videographers, and ad-hoc publicists who live as far away as Los Angeles and Mexico, were in collaboration to get the artists's new images out.
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What began in the aughts came to a head in the 2010s, as celebrities, publicists, and the various outlets they collaborated with, from People to Entertainment Tonight, scrambled to combat narratives generated by those outside the established Hollywood system.
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These days, Garner isn't forced into calculated park appearances, or hoping her publicists craft an effective counternarrative in their negotiations with the gossip magazines, or that the right quotes from interviews make it into the feature-length magazine profile.
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I do always say to the publicists or the managers that the subject has to be both be willing to have a wide range of conversation and ideally want to have it, otherwise this is not gonna go well.
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Add to the fact that the character will be newly divorced and surrounded by a team of publicists hell-bent on making her a star and viewers are in for a show with plenty going on, even without a Wookiee mask.
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Casey Affleck is getting a pass in mainstream media, but not on the internet more broadly, which continues to look at the big picture, resisting the urge to shrug off anything outside the packaged narrative his publicists want us to hear.
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She is thoughtful but soft spoken, often giggling nervously and admitting that she's a "quiet Pisces who needs a lot of alone time" — though between takes, she frequently floats toward the crew of female publicists and managers chatting on the sidelines.
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But recently, something has shifted; as the traditional Hollywood power structure continues to be challenged by allegations of workplace harassment, it's becoming increasingly difficult for publicists and lawyers to take these cases on at all without damaging their own reputations.
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Right now, though there are a handful of friends and publicists in the house, he's cooking a vegan brunch—rice, asparagus, cabbage, sweet potatoes—specifically for his mother, who's wearing a shirt with the iLoveMakonnen album art on its front.
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But here's what you don't see: months of tireless work by the designer, set designer, publicists, and a bajillion interns — and more than three to four hours of intense beauty prep by some of the world's top makeup artists and hairstylists.
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It's February 2018 and I'm in front of Danai "damn" Gurira during a Black Panther press junket, and yes, I've been here before: The hot lights in the face, jaded publicists in a corner, actress getting dabbed in foundation, etc. etc.
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While of course I say "thank you" when we speak, I've always intended to reach out to these experts and the publicists who represent them when a story finally runs, thanking them again for their help and sharing the final product.
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People who later in the week would be guided to front row seats at Michael Kors and Marc Jacobs air-kissed and how-was-your-summered by a flotilla of publicists, would be more or less finding their own way.
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She still hits the same targets as other publicists, such as getting excerpts, interviews and features into newspapers and magazines, but she also creates campaign goals aligned with the client's aspirations, which often reflect who they are or what they value.
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" In the summer of 22014, Mr. Michael and his publicists denied that he was facing serious drug addiction after a report published in a British tabloid, The Sun, quoted the wife of a family member saying, "I'm petrified he will die.
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He claims that it wasn't Madonna or Olympic figure skater Katarina Witt who spurned his romantic advances — he was the one who spurned them, and they were so upset about it that they had their publicists spread lies about him.
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For all the on-camera embraces of diversity, the changes the academy has announced — along with doubling its diversity push, it wants to weed inactive members out — continue to have multiple members of the organization, publicists included, on the defensive, and seething.
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More often than not, couples don't want to dominate the news, which means publicists and lawyers must handle the proceedings in ways that evade the press for as long as possible — something that gets more difficult every day thanks to social media.
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Most famous people hire publicists and need a corporate machine to function for a reason, but Marina's question to me showed she was more an artist controlling her own performative image than a pop star playing a persona Atlantic had build for her.
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So, publicists and people in the magazine industry started suggesting me for celebrity covers, and I began working for everybody — Twiggy, Ann Margret, Catherine Deneuve, Liza Minnelli, Cher, Madonna, Alanis Morissette, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, and of course, all the Kardashians.
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Though his publicists now insist this won't be happening, it wasn't especially encouraging last week to hear Bill Cosby's spokesman talking about the possibility of Cosby going around speaking to men on how to avoid being accused of sexual assault and harassment.
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It's not how I envisioned my Inauguration Day going—I had visions of weeping over Bloody Marys in some overcrowded brewpub, publicists and journalists hugging and consoling one another in the middle of Main Street as the snow fell poetically around us.
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But I think we are going to see more and more of publicists getting kind of in between a celebrity and their social media because it used to be they could do whatever they wanted and that was what was fun about it.
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On January 14, 2016, four publicists from Bell Pottinger, one of London's leading public-relations firms, flew to Johannesburg and met with a potential client: Oakbay Investments, a company controlled by Atul, Ajay, and Tony Gupta, three of South Africa's most powerful businessmen.
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Until now, the comedian's army of publicists, celebrity friends and acolytes did all they could to squelch the persistent rumors of such creepy misbehavior, which have dogged his career as C.K. made their work more difficult by turning his pathology into his muse.
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It's facts like these, piled on top of yesterday's news, that prove why it has to be a priority for all publications to provide voices to young women—whether they're musicians, writers, publicists, interns, editors, or fans—and encourage them to speak out.
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In this image-conscious land, where publicists sometimes seem to outnumber people to publicize, the rule is to avoid being linked with controversy by any means necessary, lest you risk having your brand being tarnished or any of your own untoward behavior exposed.
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The Odeon was like Area, the rising Chelsea department store Barneys and so many other temples of the time: an improbable, irresistible nexus of tribes — bankers and sculptors, models and socialite housewives, power publicists and literary brats — that hadn't always played together before.
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It seems like keeping their identities a secret would be impossible—they're all hanging out on the same lot; their publicists probably know each other; they must talk in their regular voices from time to time—and, by all accounts, it should be.
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Centered on 220th and 247th Avenues, it was originally the site of recording studios (many of which have lately moved elsewhere), music-publishing firms, talent agencies, publicists and booking offices, all nestled among old bungalows and churches and human-scale commercial buildings.
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An awkward thing happened to the Leonardo DiCaprio film The Revenant as it trekked into theaters last last year in hopes of picking up award show nominations: A rumor put the film in headlines but for reasons that none of its publicists were happy about.
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However, Kim Masters, an editor-at-large at the Hollywood Reporter who broke the allegations against Amazon's Roy Price, said that regardless of perceived pressure from publicists, she worked for a number of Hollywood trades where they would have happily run the Weinstein story.
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More than 300 Hollywood executives, directors, writers, producers, actors, and publicists — including Shonda Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon, and America Ferrera, who was instrumental in writing Time's Up's open letter — pledged to fight sexual harassment and raised over $15 million in legal defense funds for victims.
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On Wednesday, he taped an appearance on Dr. Mehmet Oz's daytime television show in which he discussed his health to some degree, including the results of a physical last week, according to people present for the taping and a clip released by the show's publicists.
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This room was, in fact, a series of raw spaces backstage at the Proenza Schouler show on Monday, where hairdressers waved curling irons, and publicists bustled around with fingers pressed to ear monitors, and dressers as protective as pit bulls guarded their individual clothes racks.
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On Friday, Robert De Niro, one of the festival's founders, said in a statement issued through the festival's publicists that he supported the plan to show the movie next month, although he said he was "not personally endorsing the film," nor was he against vaccination.
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" In years past, many critics of the Biennial have felt that agitprop has dominated at the expense of truly transcendent artwork — so much so that the Whitney's own publicists embraced the controversy and once cheekily promoted the Biennial as "the show you love to hate.
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Reading quotes about Sands, from coaches and publicists alike, the word "confident" is used so much that I almost expect him to shake me down for my lunch money, but when it comes time to meet him, Sands is poised but polite, his handshake reassuring.
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Yes, after eight years of pestering corporations and executives on your behalf, after several thousand contentious phone calls and emails with publicists and vice presidents, he is hanging up his fedora and any other apparel you imagine a seeker of consumer justice might wear.
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Industry veterans worried that the expansion would sap a nomination of its prestige factor, and many of the publicists and producers who had won previous best-picture fights felt particularly aggrieved, like high achievers learning that the SAT had become easier after they took it.
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In recent years, invitations were issued, vetted and approved by teams of publicists, Hollywood agents, high-powered stylists and, as often as not, the stars themselves, many of whom are snapped each season hopscotching from show to show, their influence diluted by their ubiquity.
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Chen's endorsements of young-adult fiction are an unlikely pairing with her carefully composed photographs of beauty products, handbags and designer shoes — which is exactly what makes them so valuable to book publicists, who might struggle to reach her audience through more traditional outreach.
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As spokesman for Senator Goldwater during his 1964 presidential campaign and for Vice President Agnew, and as an author, columnist and blogger, Mr. Gold was "one of the great publicists of the conservative movement," the columnist Quin Hillyer wrote on National Review's website this week.
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The title, it's worth noting, is a disparaging term for publicists, and the world of crisis PR provides the juiciest possible backdrop for a gig that often requires saving the rich and famous from themselves, or at least finding creative ways to minimize their missteps.
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But such homey get-togethers are becoming harder to organize, now that each member of the family has their own work schedule and jealously protective team of publicists, stylists, managers and other gatekeepers, whose job is to control and monetize their very lucrative time.
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This five-year-old memory is replaying in my head right now as I watch the four members of PUP—Babcock, guitarist Steve Sladkowski, bassist Nestor Chumak, and drummer Zack Mykula—as they're escorted by their publicists in to NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
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This is not based in anything other than a hunch, but I do find that over the last six months or so, I'm getting the sense, sometimes from the interview subjects themselves, sometimes from the publicists and managers, that they know the In Conversation franchise.
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Fox Searchlight Fox Searchlight Because the fall launch can be so important to awards campaigns, the producers, studios, and publicists often strategize about where to premiere a film, and which stars they want to fly in to walk a festival's red carpet and meet with the press.
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But that hasn't stopped the slow spread of awards season for a simple reason: From vendors involved in setting up awards ceremonies and parties to publications that are hungry for ad dollars to publicists and strategists, awards season makes a lot money for a lot of people.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping looks to bring the Spinal Tap treatment to these movies, as the Lonely Island guys present the inspiring faux-true story of Connor (Andy Samberg), a clueless, talentless chart sensation who's surrounded by his posse of hangers-on, family members, and publicists.
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" The document described Ackman as a person who "requires constant admiration, adulation and publicity," who "uses publicists and other contacts to shape and control press reports; chases celebrity and sees himself as a celebrity whose image is to be shaped and tailored by those loyal to him.
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To my surprise, Ulrich didn't come off negatively at all; if anything, he was extremely pleasant, his answers thoughtful and considered, his manner familiar and warm, even as we sat surrounded by publicists and in full view of anyone else who happened to be walking by.
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But in the Hollywood caste system, the publicists-for-hire, the striving producers, the up-and-coming directors who used to endure his verbal lashings and entertain his every whim now mostly don't pick up, according to several such people who said they avoid his calls.
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Chefs and their publicists embraced Instagram because it allowed them to talk directly to customers, or at least flash seductive images at them, instead of having to sell food writers on the idea first — including the grumpiest, most jaded food writers of all, the restaurant critics.
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Publicists for other actors who have spoken out — Larson, John Boyega, the "Star Wars" actor who is also an advocate of the rider, and Regina King, who vowed to achieve gender parity on her own productions — either declined to comment or did not respond to emails.
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" Something that I find works sometimes in that situation is when you remind the publicists that the interview subjects have the right to say they don't want to talk about something, and that's treating them more like an adult than saying beforehand, "You can't raise this.
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I had not considered that in a town like Los Angeles, somebody in The Masked Singer's audience might figure out who one of the masked celebrities was based on which managers, agents, or publicists were hanging out at a taping, to say nothing of friends and family.
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Today, players don't need an iconic poster to help further their brand, not when social media is available for them to curate an image with their fans, with the assistance of a group of publicists who are meticulously trying to fine-tune every detail about the athletes they represent.
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Decades past the point when stars were the pawns of their publicists as well as the publications that wrote about them, these highly successful woman musicians are considering how best they can play their part in this ecosystem, as the publications that cover them try to do the same.
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And although he's on a press run for the documentary, and he's being cajoled by two separate publicists, and it's an apocalyptically hot day in Los Angeles, he's dressed in olive-colored pants and a matching camouflage hoodie––and a bead of sweat never crosses his unblemished brow.
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While gabbing with a bundle of visiting film publicists, I overheard how, despite its modest size, Fantastic Fest is playing an increasingly strategic role for foreign language film distributors, who gradually build hype through film festival screenings, with the intention of landing a coveted nomination at the Academy Awards.
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A slew of famous faces, industry titans and fellow publicists — including Renée Zellweger, Courteney Cox, Adam Scott and top agent Bryan Lourd — once again rallied to Ryder's call, wearing "Team Nanci" T-shirts, designed for the sixth year by Vera Wang, as they participated in the annual fundraiser walk.
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"I think he believes it's a low blow to write a book riddled with lies and accusations and insinuations, whether 85033 pieces of silver or a seven-figure book, for you, your publicists, your ghostwriters, all that's changed was this book deal and her being fired," she said.
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Maybe the creators of Texts from Hillary (publicists with no official prior connection to Clinton) would have revived the meme during her campaign, were it not for the inconvenient fact that her BlackBerry has come to be associated with the most unfortunate story of Hillary's campaign: her emails.
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PMK-BNC, which is part of the Interpublic Group of advertising and communications agencies, has a robust analytics division, for instance, that helps its publicists figure out how to capitalize on social media networks and understand how fan bases overlap with the advertising goals of consumer product companies.
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Except on this red carpet, unlike the hundreds I've stood on to cover film premieres, theater openings and fashion galas, begging everyone from Al Gore to Rihanna for a minute and a half of their time, the honorees at the AVN Awards weren't being pulled away by publicists.
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The behind-the-scenes influencers of the literary world (and the ones who have to deal the most with annoying follow-up emails) are definitely the hard-working publicists, who have the singularly difficult task of figuring out how to make their books stand out in a crowded field.
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten, one of the world's top chefs and restaurateurs, on Sunday sat in front of a hotel conference room full of other chefs, food writers and publicists, and talked about an incident decades ago in which he physically assaulted a dishwasher in one of his restaurants.
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The London production earned mixed reviews but enjoyed a multiyear run; the New York version, which the show's publicists describe not as a trans-Atlantic transfer but as a new show, faces a headwind in a highly competitive theater season but has been playing to full houses in previews.
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Cruz's suspicions gained a patina of plausibility this past week when The Washington Post resurfaced evidence that, until two decades ago, Trump would bizarrely call reporters posing as one of two fictional publicists (John Miller or John Barron) and brag about his own business and romantic conquests, real and imagined.
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I had brought a carton of butternut squash soup so I'd have something to eat in a pinch, and I took several gulps of it for nourishment (cold!) before heading down to meet the publicists and journalists in the lobby so we could catch our shuttle to the set of Ghostbusters.
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With no end in sight to these revelations, movie publicists have been struggling to figure out how stars should handle the topic of sexual misconduct as they campaign for the Oscars — a three-month stretch of self-absorption that starts now and ends with the Academy Awards on March 4.
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Publicists have already started whispering that there aren't enough black dresses in all of fashion to make this statement more than once, and it's a Globes thing: a way to start the year, at what has traditionally been a more flexible event than the more formal bids that come later.
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Dylan's 2017 LA Times op-ed encapsulates all these factors: that the web of accusations, denials, explanations, and complications that spans decades has made the case almost impossible to untangle, and that — coupled with the strenuous work of publicists — it has cast a kind of haze over the whole matter.
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Entertainment reporters operate in something of a unique position compared to journalists covering other industries; the actors, celebrities, executives, and even the content at the heart of their stories are controlled by a high-priced army of publicists who serve as the gatekeepers in Hollywood, doling out access as they see fit.
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Yet in the last few weeks, women at WIRED have found their inboxes swelling with pitches from marketers and publicists recommending topics, people, films, organizations, and corporate stunts we might consider for our International Women's Day coverage—their best guesses at what you, our readers, care about on this newly relevant day.
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CONWAY: No, he thinks -- I think he believes it&aposs a low blow to write a book riddled with lies and accusations and insinuations, whether 231 pieces of silver or a seven-figure book, for you, your publicists, your ghostwriters, all that&aposs changed was this book deal and her being fired.
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Soon after the scandal, while publicists desperately tried to clean up the "post-acid" image of the company, the ex-principal Anastasia Volochkova—who was dismissed for her weight and subsequently worked as a rep for Putin's United Russia—claimed that the Bolshoi arranged for "parties" matching its dancers with its oligarchs.
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Yet in an era where anyone can use the internet and social media as a bullhorn, those voices increasingly threaten power brokers, including publishers, agents, and publicists, and audiences alike because they insist on revealing, in the public square, the inadequacies and betrayals of stories that some feel compelled to fiercely defend.
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Most of my career in journalism has involved writing celebrity profiles or interviewing celebrities in tightly managed situations, where publicists are very involved and there's not a lot of spontaneity in the subject's answers because, you know, they're famous, and there are restrictions around what they can say and what I can ask.
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Again, this strategy isn't entirely new: Publicists have always seeded stories and exclusives with gossip publications, and Garner herself was known for appearing in public parks with her children following cheating rumors on the part of then-husband Ben Affleck, essentially inviting paparazzi coverage that would steer focus away from rumored infidelity.
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The question of whether journalists are able to do their jobs without Facebook notwithstanding, in a fully digital society, there is a vast and increasing number of jobs that this stipulation applies to: marketers, web developers, social media managers, publicists, anyone wishing to effectively promote personal or professional projects, and so on.
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"I don't understand the whole craziness about it or people spending their time sitting in a movie counting the number of times the word is said," Mr. Jackson told a roomful of mostly Academy members and publicists with a few journos sprinkled in during a Q. and A. at the Monkey Bar in Manhattan.
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Yet, while most of my friends were working to get Tyra Banks' voluptuous shape, I was plastering photos of Halle Berry's lean, petite frame and Jessica Biel's abs of steel onto my vision board, next to the other things I wanted most: the L.A. city skyline and the entertainment publicists I aspired to be like.
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In a chapter aptly called "Favoring the Rich Over the Poor," Toobin shows the Hearst family marshaling their wealth, publicists and prestigious connections to persuade President Carter to commute Patricia's prison sentence after she had served less than two years of it, and later to persuade President Clinton to grant her a full pardon.
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Everywhere I went in the months after it came out, people were talking about it: at parties with friends, at networking coffees with book publicists, with the Vox politics writers who were popping into the culture team's Slack channel to declare To All the Boys the only thing that mattered in the world anymore.
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But chatting with a half-dozen or so Oscar campaigners, the Bagger learned that the reasons long-shot movies and performers are foisted into the awards fray are almost as numerous as the prizes Hollywood doles out to itself each year (though, she dares to say, publicists' justifying their paychecks surely plays a part).
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One colleague is calling publicists to ask for insider information or a comment, others are checking with sources who might know the actors, and a writer might be putting together a story based on how we think it will turn out, so all we will need to do is plug in reporting as it comes in.
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Websites and their brand overlords will always need favors—artists to play their SXSW showcases or host their award shows, or labels to advertise on pop-up ads, or publicists to help land the big exclusive interview after the artist inevitably hits rock bottom after being caught drunk driving at a Wendy's drive-thru on TMZ.
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In our age of spoiler-obsessed TV (and the added scrutiny it places on our favorite shows), red carpets and other interview opportunities have become tightrope acts for actors, who are expected to offer previews of their new projects without risking the wrath of their bosses (or weary publicists) who weren't ready for certain tidbits to be made public.
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"I refuse and reject this bullshit on behalf of those who feel they can't speak," McGowan wrote: I am someone who was forced by a studio to go on Howard Stern, where he asked me to show him my labia while my grinning male and female publicists stood to the side and did nothing to protect me.
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The day after Hanks's new movie, "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," in which he stars as Mister Rogers, debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, he was sitting on a bench in a hallway outside a conference room, making jokes to a group of publicists, waiting for me ahead of the appointed time.
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We can't shake off that mounting fire-ants-in-your-bra panic that we must choose between definition-by-identity (instead of good, old fashioned talent) or the very real possibility of erasure from "the scene" if we don't weigh in as a lady duo when we communicate with labels, licensing houses, publicists, festivals, and music writers.
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The rift came as a result of comments made by Ms. Dunham for an article published in The New York Times on Tuesday about the film mogul Harvey Weinstein and how he used a network of lawyers, publicists and journalists to protect his reputation and, in some cases, enable the sexual aggression of which he is accused.
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With that mission in mind, Minkoff teamed up with Jennifer Bett Communications founder Jennifer Bett Meyer and her business partner, Melissa Duren Conner, publicists who primarily work with women-led brands, to launch a conference, Wide Awake: A Day For Female Founders, a free day-long event that aimed to provide thoughtful advice, valuable networking, and professional development for young female entrepreneurs.
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Swift — not to mention her team of publicists and agents — is savvy about the realities of media attention, which could mean anything from inviting a grab bag of musicians onstage for her worldwide tour to that annual July Fourth photo shoot with a grab bag of recognizable friends, or just waltzing out of the gym in perfect makeup and high heels.
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She's done so many that the people she brings with her––the publicists and video directors and friends and hangers-on––will start to tell stories about Dreka slipping out of a jungle-themed room, only to realize they're mixing up the details with the time she ran out ahead of zombies, or made it off of the moon, or whatever.
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The setup around an MTV correspondent at a VMAs red carpet, for example, includes a cameraperson, an audio person, a stage manager (who directs the correspondent and the talent), a floor producer (who communicates between the people on the carpet and the show producers in a nearby truck), and a talent representative (who wrangles the celebs and their publicists to do the interviews).
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He and his father, accompanied by publicists and staffers and a documentary film crew, took a private plane to the island and then a black S.U.V. to Vega Alta, where they were celebrating local arts organizations the family is assisting as part of their intensified philanthropic efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which slammed into Puerto Rico last year.
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New Yorkers United for Justice, the coalition behind the Long Island ad, has spent more than $2 million to pass and defend the changes to the bail law, hiring A-list publicists and Albany lobbyists and investing in polling, media training and a "rapid response war room," which bombards journalists and elected officials on Twitter and through emails after sensitive articles appear.
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Today, after testing this in a few markets over the course of the last year, Google is also opening this feature up to musicians in the U.S. This means that when you search for the likes of Kygo, Lorde, Steve Aoki, Sia, Son Little, Sofi Tukker and Shakira, you'll likely see updates from the artists (or, more likely, their publicists) in the sidebar, too.
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At the fall 2018 men's wear shows at the Pitti Uomo trade fair in Italy this week, thousands of fashion editors, retailers, publicists, photographers, models and occupational peacocks will descend on Florence, second stop on a five-city tour of duty that began in London and won't end until the last model has made his final runway exit during New York Fashion Week: Men.
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For more on what this list will look like, check out our previous power lists on Business Insider Prime: The top 14 talent managers for YouTube creators and influencers who are shaping the future of digital mediaThe top 17 managers and agents for gaming YouTubers, streamers, and esports competitorsThe top 18 talent agents for YouTube creators and influencersThe top 14 PR pros and publicists for YouTube creators, Instagram influencers, and other digital stars
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Leaked memo: Snapchat is wooing advertisers to use its Audience Network to extend the reach of their ads beyond its platformAmazon is breeding a new crop of marketing startups, and investors are buying inAnd some great media stories you shouldn't miss:The 9 media companies industry insiders say are the hottest acquisition targets in streaming TV this yearThe top 14 PR pros and publicists for YouTube creators, Instagram influencers, and other digital starsDisney has a new CEO: Bob Chapek.
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In heated conversations in Hollywood in recent weeks, prompted by articles on websites like The Daily Beast, Mic and ThinkProgress, producers, publicists, studio executives and other movie insiders have been grappling with whether there is a double standard at play — involving race, power or both — in the treatment of Nate Parker, a relatively unknown artist who has been sidelined as an Academy Award candidate, and Casey Affleck, the brother of moviedom royalty who is being feted as the leading contender for best actor.
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But the following publicists make that job look easy, and it's worth noting that, despite having fewer resources than any of the big five publishing houses, their books have made huge critical splashes, sold-out first printings, and have proven that there absolutely is an audience for strange and beautiful books: people like Sarah Jean Grimm, Lena Moses-Schmitt, and Carla Bruce-Eddings, at Catapult/Soft Skull/Counterpoint, have helped the world learn about books like Fiona Alison Duncan's Exquisite Mariposa, Lucy Ives' Loudermilk, and the just-released Black Sunday, by Tola Rotimi Abraham.
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