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Date Posted: 12:50:29 11/16/04 Tue
Author: http://www.indiewire.com/focus/A1051459412.html
Subject: Re: Writers & Publicity: Advice from an Expert
In reply to: http://www.wga.org/writers_publicity.html 's message, "Writers & Publicity: Advice from an Expert" on 12:48:42 11/16/04 Tue

Publicists, Once Again in the Cross Hairs Are publicists the new villains in Hollywood movies? That's what a writer for the New York Times asks in an article that mentions unfavorable portrayals of PR people's lives in "People I Know" and "Phone Booth."

posted on Apr 27, 2003

Sweet Smell of Success POSTED Mon Apr 28 [4:14 PM] BY Registered indieWIRE Member

When have publicists NOT been portrayed as slimy, garbage eating scavengers looking to live in the reflected light of their items? They are either one step above or below your agent, whoever is working harder for you any given day.

Look at our society: when the average American would rather look at the cover of Entertainment Weekly than read it, you know we're in trouble. And who got that cover for shown talent?

So the question becomes: When did the publicist take the place of the studio head? Pat Kingsley is the woman with all the secrets; she may possibly be the most powerful person in the free world because she leads the world to bow before her subjects. How many people read Richard Johnson first thing in the morning? How many people know that at film festivals, you scout out the publicist first, then the acquisition execs if you want to get in anywhere. The adage paraphrases into, "It's not who you know, it's who knows you."

The great thing about being talent is just that, hopefully you have talent. Bring on the revolution that strips the power away from the scavengers and places it again in the creative producers' (and directors') hands; send the MBAs back east where they belong and bring back the studio heads who cared about the "picture."



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