Celebrity publicist Couri Hay says Braunshtein has just proved the age-old marketing cliché that any publicity is good publicity: “Controversy equals sales. Scandal equals sales. And interest and excitement, and this sort of thing, generates sales.”
- Obama is ‘slave’ to his own popularity, RT.com, uly 24, 2008.
2. HE MAY have been the last of the great actor-managers. Now that Laurence Olivier has been dead for almost 25 years, it is easier for a biographer to look through the trees and see the wood. Philip Ziegler’s splendid biography confirms the contention that Lord Olivier OM is as great a figure in the history of the English theatre as David Garrick or Sir Henry Irving. That is exactly what Olivier intended. Mr Ziegler, a seasoned biographer of kings, prime ministers and proconsuls, gives a convincing account of the evidence.
Olivier’s ambition soared. He was authoritarian, courageous, ruthless and insanely jealous. He liked sex with a variety of wives and mistresses, did not read much apart from scripts and wrote little. Of his autobiography, a critic said, he “acts writing”. He played a great Macbeth, Hamlet, Coriolanus and Shylock. He never got Lear right, and his popular success as Othello was judged over-the-top by his peers. Olivier also created the part of the defeated music-hall comedian Archie Rice in John Osborne’s “The Entertainer” and was a memorable James Tyrone, the actor-manager in Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey into Night”. (“Crazy wife, drunken old ham actor, don’t you think it’s just a little near the bone?” Olivier remarked.)
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