Who could ask for better summer reading than something about Harry? And, yes, he does it again. This latest romance tale is about Prince Harry’s break-up with 25-year-old lingerie model, Florence Brudenell-Bruce. Her nickname is “Flee.” And that’s exactly what the ginger-haired prince did… again. Maybe it’s time to switch PR agencies. Why? Here’s his story to the press: “He… Read more →
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The Underdog Days of Summer
With the NFL and NBA both embroiled in lock-outs while owners and players negotiate new collective bargaining agreements, the hottest tickets in sports these days belong to some unlikely matches. It seems some of the lesser talked about sports have discovered their recipe for PR success and the key to popularity – violence and scandal. It has long drawn in… Read more →
PR’s Week Off
I’m not sure if you’ve heard but Osama is dead. Then again unless you live in a hole, you’ve heard… and even then I think you may have gotten a tweet. In fact, “Last night saw the highest sustained rate of Tweets ever,” Twitter tweeted on Sunday night. “From 10:45pm – 2:20am ET, there was an average of 3,000 Tweets… Read more →
TWO AND A HALF MEN
Who knew Charlie Sheen was the “half” in Two and a Half Men? Half man and half wingnut. The sitcom star is on a roll with winning lines including “I have Adonis DNA and Tiger Blood.” “Yeah, I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen! It's not available, because if you try it once, you will die.” “People can’t… Read more →
YOGA-PHOBIC
Like many PR professionals, I’m Type A. So, in the last few years a bunch of folks have strongly recommended I take up yoga: all my friends, my daughter, sister, mom, all other relatives, every doc, my colleagues, everyone in my apartment building and every facebook friend (so basically everyone I know). Meantime, I’m about ready to shoot anyone I… Read more →
2,300 Feet Down
Every time I start thinking about those first 17 days (not to mention months to come) for the Chilean miners I get goosebumps. Guess is they were doing lots of praying. Given two spoonfuls of tuna and half a cookie every two days, they sure weren’t doing much eating. And then the miracle happened. The drill bit through the rock… Read more →
Daughter Goes Hollywood
What’s with all these Hollywood bosses? Just because you make money young gives you the right to send interns out for lattes and bottled water? And god forbid the foam isn’t just right on the latte! How do I know this? My Ivy league daughter went straight from college to LA to become a TV writer. As part of her… Read more →