As they've become more powerful, publicists have also become more respectable.
His father was one of the most powerful publicists in the United States, representing corporate clients like Lever Brothers and Lipton Tea and personal clients like Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selznick and William S. Paley.
But after three decades as one of the most powerful publicists in Hollywood, Mr. Wasserman was arrested in 2000 on charges of grand theft.
And the artists that are given carte blanche on the hipster blogs are just as likely to employ powerful publicists and booking agents, and license tunes commercially as those working the industry showcase circuit and toiling away with songwriting teams.
Pat Kingsley, the powerful PMK publicist who represents Mr. Beatty and Ms. Hawn and Ms. Keatonn, for that matter), said it would have been inappropriate for Mr. Beatty to talk about the film's production problems because he had been hired only as an actor.
Washington is consumed with who is eating at what restaurant, who is dating whom, what kind of home you own, and how powerful your publicist is.
And Pat Kingsley went on to become the most powerful Hollywood publicist in history, but back in 1970 or whatever it was, when Shep [Gordon], Alice Cooper's manager approached her, she was just a publicist starting out.
The writer and director explained that he was inspired to start Half after a few recent events, including a powerful speech given by his former publicist Nanci Ryder, in which she urged the industry to fix the "gender problem".
After a gossip site speculated that Beyoncé had gotten lip injections, her publicist came forward with a powerful statement about what happens to a woman's body while pregnant.
