Russell Birdwell the great movie PR man was reportedly responsible for some of the most influential cultural engineering of his time. Texas-born Birdwell was a newspaper reporter working the Hollywood beat before breaking into show business around 1925. He was a mighty myth maker and it was he who developed the story about the longest […]
In this morning’s “Office Hours” section of The Guardian, is a huge picture of English Heritage’s pro jester Peet Cooper. My thoughts rolled back to an astonishing summer back in the 1980’s, when Borkowski was publicising Royal Britain, a visitor attraction in the heart of the Barbican. The owner, Lord Bradford employed a jester, one […]
The furore over Rory Bremner’s spoof call to Margret Becket continues to generate newspaper and radio debate this morning, 24 hours after the story broke in full. I continue to feel the back-draft issues from close quarters. Rory called me last night to say that he had decided, in consultation with his producer Geoff Atkinson, […]
The Borkowski poet in residence imagines what might really be going on in some Labour MPs’ minds after Peter Hain’s furious reaction to satirist Rory Bremner’s hoax phone call to Margaret Beckett in 2005, in which he pretended to be Gordon Brown and got her to gossip about cabinet colleagues. For more information, click here. […]