"Ronni was the first publicist who actively tried to expose the work of film composers to the public," Mr. Zimmer said in an e-mail.
Gillian Sheldon, TMZ's first publicist, who later became a supervising producer, said, "Once, Sumner Redstone"—the former executive chairman of Viacom, who is ninety-two—"told him that one of the secrets of his longevity was that he ate blueberries every day.
Thus was born Peter, Paul & Mary... and I became their first publicist.
It looks like a wheeze at first, a publicist's gamble to get people to pay twice for the same evening.
The third plays a location scout, and the fourth a publicist, papering the neighborhood with fliers.
Others seem to cry out for a first-rate publicist.
March 28 , 1760Wisbech, England September 26 , 1846Ipswich, England Thomas Clarkson, (born March 28 , 1760 Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, Eng. died Sept. 26, 1846, Ipswich, Suffolk) abolitionist, one of the first effective publicists of the English movement against the slave trade and against slavery in the colonies.
"We were the first film publicists who were film buffs - we only accepted the films we liked," he recalls of the era when he helped bring directors like Ford, Abraham Polonsky, Sam Fuller and Jacques Tourneur to the attention of the French media.
Although sadly I suspect it was likely a third-rate publicist and not a learned pastor that suggested her classy-gal style overhaul.
Two days before the Eighty-second Academy Awards, the International Cinematographers Guild hosted, of all things, the Forty-seventh Annual Publicists Awards, a gala luncheon at the… A hundred and eight comedians flew in from L.A. the other day, and, boy, are their arms tired.
Two days before the Eighty-second Academy Awards, the International Cinematographers Guild hosted, of all things, the Forty-seventh Annual Publicists Awards, a gala luncheon at the Hyatt Regency in Century City, to celebrate Hollywood's press agents.
