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...woman with a nose for celebrity revelations, the journalist who never saw a secret she couldn't coax out of a guest, would not be a party to leaving the juiciest dish from her book on the cutting-room floor. Or would she? Walters wouldn't comment. Her publicist, Cindi Berger, acknowledged that Walters "approved the abridged version of the book," but just didn't feel the love stuff was important enough to include. "The focus was just to be about her work," Berger explains. "The men in her life was not her priority...
Though he pioneered product placement in Hollywood, Warren Cowan's considerable influence was felt mainly behind the silver screen. As a publicist to the stars during a career spanning more than 60 years, he represented such Tinseltown titans as Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor. When asked to pick his favorite client from among the list of luminaries, Cowan famously replied, "The next...
...World Wrestling Federation on a bad day. Shakespeare, the reigning champion, the headline attraction designed to draw in the punters, shows up for the photographers but never enters the ring. After the title and the first page, he almost entirely disappears, leaving us alone with Milton and his publicist Smith...
George Clooney wasn't supposed to say yes. A reporter interviews a movie star at a restaurant or a hotel lobby or an office, with his publicist lurking in the corner, ready to cut off any vaguely interesting questions. But to come over to my house for dinner? That's a trap no sucker has ever shoved a famous foot into. Partly because there are so many unknowns-you're stuck alone chatting up the family while the reporter cooks, you accidentally let slip a cruel joke about a wedding photo, you somehow use the bathroom wrong-and partly because...
...going to be uncomfortable, this reversal of the natural guest-host order. Three years ago, Clooney invited me to his huge Los Angeles house to interview him, and he was exactly the host you'd expect: relaxed, honest, easy. Four years ago, when I left a message with his publicist to set up a time to talk to him, he simply called my voice mail and left his home number. In the summer, at his six-house compound in Lake Como, Italy, he throws nightly Algonquin-style dinners featuring such guests as Al Gore, Walter Cronkite and Quincy Jones...