Word: publicist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among other revelations about the life and times of a folk hero: the familiar story of Dylan's running away from his Hibbing, Minn., home at age 10, 12, 13, 15, 151, 17 and 18, and being brought back all but once, is strictly a publicist's pipedream. "I didn't put out any of those stories." He "didn't get a penny" from the documentary movie about him, Don't Look Back. His best songs have been written in motel rooms and cars. "I try to write the song when it comes . . . And when...
...life so intense must exact its costs. Pike read, wrote and talked about theology, but he seldom had time to do his own serious thinking. Although books poured out of his typewriter as fast as words clicked off his tongue, he was not a theologian but a publicist of theology. His pace took its toll in personal as well as intellectual terms. He admitted at one point that he had become an alcoholic. He chain-smoked so frantically that he sometimes had two or three cigarettes going at the same time. But in recent years he had quit both alcohol...
...more offbeat crowds. Says London Celebrity Tailor Douglas Hayward, "They were both enormously popular in a trendy, fashionable, hippie world." They also habitually picked up odd and unsavory people indiscriminately, and invited them home for parties. "Roman and Sharon had as much idea about security as idiots," says Publicist Don Prince. "They lived like gypsies. You were likely to find anyone sleeping there...
...types are naively shocked when told they will have to pay $2,500 for a week's display of Dr. Dolittle record albums in the windows of a Manhattan store. And how to get Rex Harrison to go to South America to plug the movie? Well, suggests one publicist, since the lobby-display pushmi-pulyus were made in Peru, "I think I can get him decorated by the Peruvian government for promoting cottage industry . . . The Condor of the Andes or something like that." Producer Arthur Jacobs asks: "Condor of the Andes first class or second class? You know...
Secure in the publicist's truth that out of the mouths of stars comes hot copy, Jackie strews absurdities, inconsistencies, generalities, banalities and wisecracks with calculated sincerity: Critics. Egghead-doubledomes! There are about eight influential critics and all they want is books that only they can understand...