The Media Guy’s Sack
Has it been that long? Over a year since I grabbed my sack…of mail? As usual, I resisted and resisted, but the mailbox is overflowing and alas, you need answers. So, without fanfare, here are the highlights of genuine emails from my irreverent readers. Question: Knife to your throat, who’s the next sweetheart of American […]
SPOILER ALERT
You could spend a lifetime catching up on movies you’ve missed with tricky endings. Now you can save yourself the time from watching such cinematic masterpieces such as “Citizen Kane,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Harry Potter” and “Soylent Green” by peeking in at “Spoiler Alert!” from Screen Junkies. And, just a tip, don’t sit through […]
Two-wheeled Creatures
Back in 2010, I posted a photo of Mandy Rusillo, the Chicagoland messenger that will be featured in my upcoming book (should be gracious publisher ever stop making changes). In places like New York and Chicago, the media folks would (almost) literally die without their messengers to shuttle final art around town. I wrote then […]
Going Retro
Orange may be the new black and 50 may be the new 30, but the new rage is anything retro. Paris-based art director David Redon took a page from Disney Imagineering, letting his mind (and apparently PhotoShop) wander into the print media world inserting some of the best-known performing artists of the last dozen or […]
A Whale of An Opera
Some of the greatest characters in history were all wrapped up in their obsession with whales. Ahab chased one. Jonah was swallowed by one. Pinocchio lit a fire inside one to escape. Nowadays, millions of people worldwide congregate on shore or hop on a boat just to see one. Bird-watching aside, the Middle East is […]
Twitter, mwitter!
Let’s get this straight: Politics aside, I love Turkey. But when I see a juicy media story, I have to pounce. I’ve been peddling media, media campaigns and the like for nearly thirty years – geez, if I wasn’t having so much fun I would say I’m getting pretty old. Let me tell you this, […]
Backstage at the Oscars: 2014
Awards Season is over and yet my dreams have only been elevated. My drive accelerated. A few minutes after the Academy Award telecast had ended, I whipped off an email to my agent begging him: The Media Guy at the Oscars. “I know I bore you with this…but I have to win an Oscar…Once you […]
OSCAR WEEK 2014: Magically Wet
Mother Nature must be mad at the Oscars. Perhaps her invitation came late. Or not at all. From the looks of it, she got impatient and decided to crash the party. And such, rain crushed Hollywood over the past few days. So there I was, searching the red carpet for stories, rain pelting me and […]
OSCAR WEEK 2014: Dreaming in Gold
Once upon a time, a boy dreamed of winning an Oscar. He wrote and wrote and wrote. Fingers numb and calloused as he searched for the perfect combination of words that created the scenes that would ultimately build a story that could be made into movie that would move the soul. This movie would go […]
Stage Fright
I remember the first time I had to speak in front of a big crowd. It was 1993 at the New York City’s Marriott Marquis. Epson was giving me their MVP Award for an advertising campaign and the luncheon was filled with 1,000 or so industry mucky-mucks and some of the holdovers from the Mad […]
