Archive for November 20th, 2006

The old movie publicists like Nottage and Reichenbach were very clever in creating false back stories for their clients; exotic lifestyles, estranged family members, passions for couture were the foundations for many of these extravagant biographies. Perhaps the most amusing was when fiction became fact in the case of Clara Kimble Smith, whom Harry Reichenbach had falsely reported as being a great lover of bees.

Harry claimed that she spent hours visiting beehives, used beeswax to moisturise her skin and enjoyed studying bees from an anthropological angle. Clara was then asked if she would become patron to the U.S. Honeymakers Consortium, a position which someone who had such a love of bees could hardly refuse. On one of her first engagements for the consortium, Clara was stung, and as she was allergic to bee stings, fell into anaphylactic shock. She was rushed to hospital and had to spend 24 hours under observation only to be released with a swelling on her face so hideous, that the studio had to cancel another day’s shoot. Harry found himself in such deep water, not only with the Consortium who had to deal with the embarrassment of the situation, but also the studio, who charged him for the loss of two days of shooting.

I have done my 125th interview on Kate Moss, this time for an Australian News Network. The ups and downs of Kate Moss’s life have been a rollercoaster ride. This week an article in a design magazine dug out one of my original quotes on the Kate Moss ferago, when the story originally broke.

http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/design/article/603548/mark-ritson-branding-hit-scandal-it/

The continuing need for 24/7 news quotes from pundits like myself and Max Clifford, only illustrates that you can comment on a situation as it happens, and as you see fit to comment at the time.
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Classical rebels play it demure
by Maurice Chittenden and Gillian Bowditch
Sunday Times 19th November 2006.

WHEN Katie Targett-Adams takes to the stage with her Celtic harp in Beijing this week she will not be wearing the suggestive outfit that has become de rigueur for the ambitious young female classical musician.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2460345,00.html
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