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The Times has a story on the Christian Bale incidents and the influence of publicists, quoting me and The Fame Formula, as well as a number of other publicists. Here’s the excerpt featuring me – click on the link at the bottom of the page to read the full article.
From The Times, July 30th [...]

It was a well known Hollywood tactic to change actors’ biographical information for publicity purposes.  Even back in the silent era, names were changed to make them sound snappier, more attractive or less ethnic.  Ages were changed to make actors appear younger and older.  Height, weight and even birthdays were manipulated by the studios.  [...]

I have a gentleman named Paul Rigby to thank for a letter he sent me, informing me of one of Jim Moran’s genius stunts in Hollywood. Apparently Moran, who was wanting work in Tinseltown, approached a couple of Hollywood film studios to pitch for business.
He posed as a Lithuanian film producer, even learning a [...]

Leaving LA
Being a studio PR is a horrible no-win job and you just end up taking flak from all sides
It used to be one of the best jobs in Hollywood. These days there can’t be many worse jobs in the world than being a studio PR.
This week’s Variety reports, under the headline [...]

There’s no such thing as bad publicity
AIDAN SMITH
T WAS another go-on-impress-me day on the Festival desk of the Edinburgh Evening News and, really, for a hack of such tender years, I was carrying far too much cynicism in the pockets of my copy of a Paul Smith pinstriped double-breaster. These were the 1980s and, even [...]