The obit pages have a habit of breakoing bad news. This morning obit pages recounts the colourful life of Evan Steadman. He was one of my all time favourite clients who actually got what I do and loved the process of great promotional publicity In 1993 Steadman employed ne to publize his stage concept “Maxwell: […]
I saw a Neval motorbike on the street earlier today, and I had only one thought. My great friend and first freelance client was the crazy Marcel Steiner who ran his Theatre off the side of one twenty years ago. Marcel is a forgotten genius. I found the obituary I penned for the Guardian. He […]
Whilst researching my book I interviewed the great Freddie Fields, former co-founder of CMA which then became ICM, former producer and then head of MGM-UA Studios. Frankly Fields was a legend. The sad news is that he died on Tuesday and the funeral is today at 2 PM in Hollywood. It’s sad but Freddie told […]
I learn from a Guardian obituary http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2216886,00.html that Verity Lambert has shuffled off to the grand TV studio in the sky. Many years ago, I developed a situation comedy with a dear friend and journalist Peter Freedman. Peter did most of the hard work and penned a pilot script entitled “Hype” It was a factual […]
It’s a sad day today as George Melly is dead. He was one of the true entertainers and raconteurs. I met him when I was working as a fledgling publicist at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon where George would entertain the citizens of Swindon with his peculiar stage performances. One of his greatest fans was […]
Bernard Manning is dead. And somewhere in London there is a full size wax effigy of Mr Manning that I commissioned in 1992. Jonathan Margolis’ obituary in today’s Independent was staggering. I particularly liked his comment that “Bernard Manning was in a sense the last “legitimate” racist in Britain. Legitimate because the gags which caused […]
Sad news, the mighty Boris Yeltsin has passed away and has moved on to take his seat in the great Politburo in the sky. I had the privilege of meeting Yeltsin in Moscow in 1996. I was on a recce to see the Moscow State Circus before it visited London in the summer of 1987. […]
This morning’s Guardian obit of Ian “Woolers” Wooldridge is a work of art; penned by none other than the other sport writing legend Frank Keating. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2027343,00.html. His first paragraph is enchanting, “Ian Wooldridge, who has died aged 75, was an undisputed heavyweight champion of British sports writing. For his readers, with his perception, passion and […]