Mr. Debuskey was president of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers, his profession's union, for many years.
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No. By 1987, he and his imaginary press agents had done a pretty good job of getting his name out.
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He's escaped accountability at each turn, all of his messes wiped clean by press agents and glossed over with star power.
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"Hmmm, that's a haute couture dress," joked one of the press agents permanently affixed to the Valentino coterie, in past and present incarnations.
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Mr. Andersson took Dixie on tour in 2008, and with the help of booking and press agents, landed gigs for the next two years.
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Press agents staged a publicity photograph in which the two kissed, but the scene was apparently cut from the finished film after Autry fans objected.
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It was as if Grover Cleveland had press agents trying to make sure his side of the love-child scandal was in a headline every day.
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You had scary newspaper editors to negotiate fees with, tough managers for access, press agents who were often heavy drinkers, and roadies who treated women like groupies.
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It was 19373, and there were 540 local phone listings for "public relations" and "publicity" — a scrimmage of press agents who took reporters to lunch, hoping to plant items for clients.
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Annette BENING and Warren BEATTY At first, I was confused by the revealer, because JOLIE/PITT and BENING/BEATTY are notoriously successful couples, at least as far as their press agents are concerned.
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"I ran to the Stork Club and got two bottles of their Sortilege perfume, and we put it in the bubble bath," he recalled at a 2009 gathering of old-school press agents.
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During the era of Classic Hollywood, press agents ghostwrote all manner of fan magazine articles "authored" by the stars; in 2009, Britney Spears and 50 Cent both openly admitted to employing "ghost tweeters" to maintain their brand.
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The Handwerkers also hired Max Rosey and Mortimer Matz, two press agents who made Nathan's an obligatory destination for political candidates, and managed to permanently append three words to the end of a perpetually recycled quote by Gov.
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"The communications between her counsel and press agents do not reflect a discussion of legal strategy relevant to the pending litigation but, rather, a discussion of a public relations strategy, and are not protected under the attorney-client privilege," the decision said.
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" He noted that it "entered the political lexicon" in 1984, in a New York Times editorial that said advisers to that year's major-party candidates, Reagan and Walter Mondale, "won't be just press agents trying to impart a favorable spin to a routine release.
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A self-effacing, good-natured, vivacious Texan who professed to be awed by celebrities, Ms. Smith was the antithesis of the brutal columnist J. J. Hunsecker in Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman's screenplay for "Sweet Smell of Success," which portrayed sinister power games in a seamy world of press agents and nightclubs.
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The Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers (ATPAM) is an American union organization for press agents and managers in the theatrical profession. ATPAM received a charter from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1928.
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Adrian Bryan-Brown (born 1956) is a press agent and theatrical promoter based in Manhattan, New York City, United States. He has been involved with Broadway theatre and was called "one of the top press agents on Broadway" by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.
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Then he started to take guitar lessons, to write poetry and songs, avoiding any form of classical music training. Very early, some press agents gave him the nickname of "the Idol of Youth from the Isle of Youth".
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All the press-agents in Denver, however, could not replicate the genuine outpouring of emotion. A number of veterans spoke in Lakota. Johnny Baker, the former "Cowboy Kid" and Cody's foster son, translated. Flying Hawk laid his war staff of eagle feathers on the grave.
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Power Dive is a 1941 American film directed by James P. Hogan. The film stars Richard Arlen, Jean Parker and Helen Mack.Wynne 1987, p. 172. Power Dive was the first film from the producing team of Pine-Thomas Productions, former press agents who had a producing unit at Paramount.
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He sees hungry press agents, desperate to get in the column, the hysterical crowds in the nightclubs, hoping for a mention in JJ. Sidney is finally free of it all. Kello and his goons appear. They surround Sidney. JJ goes back to work, preparing his next column ("Finale").
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Stagecraft members work in venues that include Broadway theaters, opera houses, dance centers, regional theaters, seasonal outdoor amphitheaters, arenas, concert halls, parks, television awards venues and stadiums. Additionally, the front-of-house workers are also represented by IATSE, as are the press agents, house managers, and company managers in theater companies.
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I'm 25 years old, and it so > happens that I like to smoke. So out in Hollywood the studio press agents > are still pulling cigarettes out of my hand and covering my drink with a > napkin whenever my picture is taken. Little Sandra Dee isn't supposed to > smoke, you know. Or drink.
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Rice is a founding member of CoProducers (a commercial producing organization), The Storefront Theatre (a non-profit off-Broadway company), board member of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Washington, DC, a board certified member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers, and a member of the Off-Broadway League of Theatres and Producers.
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Allyson, June and Frances Spatz Leighton. June Allyson by June Allyson. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. .. As a new starlet, although Allyson had already been a performer on stage and screen for more than five years, she was presented as an "overnight sensation", with Hollywood press agents attempting to portray her as an ingenue, selectively slicing years off her true age.
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Hollywood producer Duncan DeGrasse (Barrymore) is preparing for the debut of his anti- Nazi motion picture, 'The Earth is in Flames.' To generate hype, his press agents create elaborate events for the premiere. One of these stunts involves hiring phony spies to make the audience think they're in real danger. However, among the fake spies are German and Italian operatives.
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Sam Zolotow (c. 1899 - October 21, 1993) was an American theater reporter for The New York Times who was known for his tenacity in getting the details about how Broadway shows were performing, relentlessly pursuing producers, press agents and the crowds attending opening nights to get the details he needed for his stories and columns during his half century at the newspaper.
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Flying Blind was the third film from William Pine and William C. Thomas, former press agents turned movie producers. They wanted to make lower-budgeted action films and teamed with Richard Arlen, who was known for aviation movies and who ran an aviation school.Wynne 1987, p. 172. Pine and Thomas selected three titles, Power Dive, Forced Landing and Flying Blind, and wrote scripts around them.
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Shouting the password 'Zorch!'... they storm into a radio studio in the Palace Hotel five nights a week to pay homage to a bop-talking disk jockey named Richard Bogardus Blanchard... His press agents describe [him] as [the] 'uncrowned king of juvenile Northern California.'" Blanchard said of his show, "It's a good thing this show happened in California. It's too Zorch for the rest of the country.
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Power Dive was the first release by Picture Corp. of America, an independent production company formed in December 1940 headed by William Pine and William C. Thomas, former press agents and then associate producers at Paramount. Pine and Thomas both worked in publicity--Pine was head of publicity for Paramount and Thomas was his assistant. They teamed with another publicist, Maxwell Shane, who was a writer.
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The organization traces its roots to 1904, when representatives of the Broadway theatres working with New York publicists organized the Press Agents' Association to exchange lists of people who were fraudulently receiving complimentary passes to shows. The group regularly met at Browne's Chop House.The Story of the Friars Friars Club. Shortly thereafter it began its tribute dinners to theatrical celebrities, the first being Clyde Fitch.
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The Broadway League has more than 700 members representing the Broadway theatre industry in New York and more than 200 other North American cities across the United States. In addition to theatre owners, producers, presenters, general managers who create productions and operate theatres across the country, industry specialists and vendors such as press agents, booking agents, advertising agencies, and scenery, costume, and prop shops are all eligible for membership.
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McKenzie was an active member of the League of American Theatres and Producers, vice president of the Council of Stock Theaters, president of the Council of Resident Summer Theaters, executive producer of the Connecticut Theater Foundation, a trustee of the Actors' Equity Association Pension and Health Fund, a member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers, the Actors' Equity Association and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
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"It's also true that what constitutes Broadway is easy to delineate; it's a universe of 39 specified theaters, which all have at least 500 seats. Off Broadway is generally considered to comprise theaters from 99 to 499 seats (anything less is thought of as Off Off), which ostensibly determines the union contracts for actors, directors and press agents." Off-Broadway theatres feature productions in venues with 100–500 seats.
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Oliver Martin Sayler (23 October 1887 - 19 October 1958) was an American theater critic and writer. He was an authority on Russian theatre under the communists. In the 1920s, he and his business partner, Marjorie Barkentin, became Morris Gest's press agents, a position they held until Gest's death in 1942.Morris Gest: An Inventory of His Collection in the Performing Arts Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
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Richard Lane (May 28, 1899 – September 5, 1982) was an American actor and television announcer/presenter. In movies he played assured, fast-talking slickers: usually press agents, policemen, and detectives, sometimes swindlers and frauds. He is perhaps best known to movie fans as "Inspector Farraday" in the Boston Blackie mystery-comedies. Lane also played Faraday in the first radio version of Boston Blackie, which ran on NBC from June 23, 1944 to September 15, 1944.
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Rothenberg arrived in NYC in 1958 after release from the US Army.Rothenberg, page 16 He was inspired to pursue acting after seeing Joseph Mankiewicz's dialogue in the movie All About Eve. Initially, he worked with ad agencies and book publishers as a typist to make ends meet while simultaneously sending out introduction letters to theatrical producers, agents, and press agents listed in the Manhattan directory. He also answered ads listed in the New York Times related to show business.
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From 1929, his fee income was at least $250,000 a year and from 1942 to his death it was always at least half a million annually. By 1930, Sonnenberg and the field of Public Relations were becoming very well known. Sonnenberg made his clients look up to press agents, rather than looking down on them. He moved to No.19 in 1931 and rented out the two bottom floors and by 1945 he was able to afford the whole thing.
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Hilary Masters (February 3, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri – June 14, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American novelist, the son of poet Edgar Lee Masters, and Ellen Frances Coyne Masters. He attended Davidson College from 1944–1946, then served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1947 as a naval correspondent. He completed his BA at Brown University in 1952. Masters began his writing career after graduation in New York City with Bennett & Pleasant, press agents for concert and dance artists.
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Detroit auto manufactures saw NASCAR as a big business opportunity, and by the beginning of the 1957 season , GM, Ford, Mercury, and Plymouth were all backing one team or another. Press agents were hired, and people worked to increase publicity through newspapers, radio, tv and other media venues. It all came to a halt on May 19, 1957, when a race accident injured not just drivers, but spectators as well. Included in the injuries was an 8 year old boy, Alvia Helsabeck.
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By 1928, Caspary was writing for Gotham Life: the Metropolitan Guide, a free entertainment guide distributed through hotels. This job provided free tickets to theater shows, concerts, and nightclubs and introduced her to a wide circle of press agents and celebrities. While at Gotham Life, she had lived under an assumed name in a "working girl's home". In March 1929, she again quit her job to write full time, and her 1930 novel Music in the Street was set in a working girl's home.
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JJ has the goods on everyone, from the President to the latest starlet. And everyone feeds JJ scandal, from J. Edgar Hoover and Senator Joe McCarthy down to a battalion of hungry press agents who attach their news to a client that JJ might plug. You’re no one if you’re not in JJ. You can become no one if JJ turns on you ("The Column"). Meet Sidney Falcone (Brian D'Arcy James), a struggling press agent whose sole client is a nowhere jazz dive, the Club Voodoo.
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Frederic B. Vogel (March 20, 1926 - November 29, 2005) was an American theatre producer, educator, actor, and founder of the Commercial Theater Institute, as well as the Federation for the Extension and Development of the American Professional Theatre. Frederic B. Vogel was born in Philadelphia. He created the Commercial Theater Institute in 1982, the first workshop ever conducted to train producers for commercial Broadway, Off-Broadway, and road productions. These workshops have included seminar leaders including producers, general managers, theater owners, press agents, literary agents, theatrical attorneys, etc.
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July 2003 Cover of Innerloop Innerloop Magazine was a dance music magazine based in Washington, D.C. from 2002–2004 and was a free publication distributed at record stores, clubs and other cultural hubs around the United States and in Europe. Printed on newsprint, Innerloop was in tabloid format. The magazine featured electronic music artists, who typically did not have press agents or major label representation, with a strong focus on the Washington and Baltimore music scenes. The first cover of the magazine featured Washington's house music DJ Sam "the man" Burns.
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Although day-to-day duties vary depending on what each clients needs consist of, the main focal point for a publicist is promotion. With regard to a crisis situation, publicists often attempt to use the situation as an opportunity to get their organization's or client's name into the media. A press agent, or flack, is a professional publicist who acts on behalf of his or her client on all matters involving public relations. Press agents are typically employed by public personalities and organizations such as performers and businesses.
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With a release scheduled for early summer, the studio press agents swung into high gear early in 1951. Hitchcock, promotionally photographed many times over the years strangling various actresses and other women — some one-handed, others two — found himself in front of a camera with his fingers around the neck of a bust of daughter Patricia; the photo found its way into newspapers nationwide. He was also photographed adding the letter L to Strangers on the official studio poster for the film, thus changing the word to Stranglers. One studio press release gave rise to a myth that still lingers on today.
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Following her divorce from Austin, her journalism experience in Hollywood help her launch her business as a journalist, working through some of the top press agents in the newspaper industry. She freelanced in Fleet Street until she did a course in hypnotherapy, discovered she was good at it, and built a career of over 30 years. During this time she had five documentaries made and over 70 major articles published about her hypnotherapy career. Her first Book, 'Self Hypnosis' (1992) was called, "A little gem" by executives at Thorsons publishing, an arm of Harper Collins, and the book is still in print.
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The origin of Bara's stage name is disputed; The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats says it came from director Frank Powell, who learned Theda had a relative named Barranger, and that Theda was a childhood nickname. In promoting the 1917 film Cleopatra, Fox Studio publicists noted that the name was an anagram of Arab death, and her press agents, to enhance her exotic appeal to moviegoers, falsely promoted the young Ohio native as "the daughter of an Arab sheik and a French woman, born in the Sahara." Film review. In 1917, the Goodman family legally changed its surname to Bara.
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Although Fluffy were initially signed to Parkway Records (owned by press agents Phill Savidge and John Best of Savidge and Best), it was not until A&R; man Tom Zutaut signed them to a two-album deal with The Enclave/Hut/Virgin that Fluffy gained wider notoriety. The band appeared on the NME's yearly bratbus tour in 1996, along with The Bluetones, The Cardigans, and Heavy Stereo. The band's debut album Black Eye was released in 1996, and the band supported the Foo Fighters on tour. They were the opening act for the Sex Pistols reunion tour of Japan, as well as the Sex Pistols' first reunion show at Finsbury Park.
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Jerry Miles (Wally Brown) and Mike Strager (Alan Carney) are employed as Broadway press agents. Their latest idea is to hire a "genuine zombie" for the opening of the Zombie Hut, a new cabaret nightclub owned by gangster Ace Miller (Sheldon Leonard) that will open on Friday the 13th of the next month. The boys plan is to dress a former boxer up as a zombie, figuring no one will know the difference. However, Ace's nemesis, a Walter Winchell type radio celebrity is friends with the boxer and vows he will publicly humiliate Ace Miller if a real zombie is not at the opening of the club.
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First of all, she was not up there alone: flanking her were the actors playing Miriam's two boyfriends — "and I have a picture of us waving." "This was good stuff for press agents paid to stir up thrills and it has been repeated in other books to bolster the idea of Hitchcock's sadism," but "we were [only] up there two or three minutes at the outside.... My father wasn't ever sadistic. The only sadistic part was I never got the hundred dollars." Strangers on a Train previewed on March 5, 1951 at the Huntington Park Theatre, with Alma, Jack Warner, Whitfield Cook and Barbara Keon in the Hitchcock party and it won a prize from the Screen Directors Guild.
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However, during World War I, scholar Stuart Allan (1997) suggests that propaganda campaigns, as well the rise of "press agents and publicity experts", fostered the growing cynicism among the public towards state institutions and "official channels of information". The elevation of objectivity thus constituted as an effort to re-legitimatize the news-press, as well as the state in general. Some historians, like Gerald Baldasty, have observed that objectivity went hand in hand with the need to make profits in the newspaper business by attracting advertisers. In this economic analysis, publishers did not want to offend any potential advertising clients and therefore encouraged news editors and reporters to strive to present all sides of an issue.
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In 1864 he became closely connected with the Augustenburg party in Schleswig-Holstein, but after 1866 he transferred his services to the Prussian government, and was employed in a semi-official capacity in the newly conquered province of Hanover. His work on the Grenzboten had attracted Bismarck's attention, and in 1870 he received an appointment to the German Foreign Office, where he functioned as one of Bismarck's press agents. From that time and for many years, he was the inseparable companion and confidant of the chancellor, taking daily notes of his sayings and doings, and earning for himself the title of “Bismarck's Boswell.” He was at the chancellor's side during the whole of the campaign of 1870–71.
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The turret would have been supplemented by machine guns on production vehicles. The vehicle was promoted as being so fast it would chase aircraft, allowing it to hit them with more rounds than fixed gun batteries or slower vehicles. Long after the war, when Tucker faced the Security and Exchange Commission, Tucker's press agents produced a highly- colored half-hour film entitled Tucker: The Man and his Car for the Commission members. This film implied that the Tucker armored car and the Tucker gun turret, which were never operational weapons, had been important weapons in World War II. Steve Lehto and Jay Leno, who worked to debunk misconceptions about Tucker's career and importance during World War II, attribute the misconceptions to Tucker's promotional movie.
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Dowling—promoted by press agents of producer Samuel Goldwyn as three-dimensional ("she can sing, she can dance and she can act") —began her screen career appearing in Up in Arms (1944) for Samuel Goldwyn. At the time, newspaper columnist Sheilah Graham reported that Danny Kaye "was hoping for a big movie name to star opposite him ... but boss Sam Goldwyn thinks otherwise and has signed" Dowling. In the same year, she appeared opposite Nelson Eddy in Knickerbocker Holiday, In 1946, newspaper columnist Hedda Hopper reported that Dowling had signed a long-term contract with Eagle-Lion Films. Soon after having appeared in The Well-Groomed Bride (1946) and Black Angel (1946), she was loaned to Columbia Pictures to appear in Boston Blackie and the Law.
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Goldberg, Marv - interview with James "Jay" Price on October 18, 2013. The story apparently started with a December 31, 1953, article in JET that referred to them as siblings, in Major Robinson's gossip column--which often carried the most outrageous (and unverified) claims from press agents. Further, the 1910 United States Census shows Lillian's mother was already 50, far too old to have given birth to Steve Gibson on October 12, 1914. Randolph appeared with her mother in Gibson's nightclub acts, using her mother's maiden (and stage) name of Randolph in 1957, continuing to appear with the Red Caps on many occasions in the 1960s. Barbara Randolph first recorded as a solo singer for RCA Records in 1960. In 1964, she joined The Platters, replacing singer Zola Taylor, but left after a year and one album (The New Soul of the Platters). She continued to work as an actress, taking the part of Dorothy in the 1967 movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
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