The Continuing Adventures of Lola and Jeffy
By now many of you know the story of Jeffy and Lola, the would-be wedding crashers that found inner happiness by writing about the beauty around them and sending the media kisses with positive energy. For me, the Media Guy aka Jeffy, I found the popularity (of what will now be known as) Part One […]
Poetry Benefits
In Celebration of National Poetry Month, NBA Co-Owner Counts the Ways It Fuels Success April is National Poetry Month, inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets to celebrate poetry and its vital role in American culture. The academy sponsors events such as the star-studded Poetry & the Creative Mind gala (April 17 at the Lincoln […]
Experience the Le Gray, Beirut
CampbellGray Hotels is a mad scientist when it comes to hypothesizing potential hotel destinations and while their latest seems the craziest of them all, it isn’t. The Le Gray Beirut was referred by a colleague on my trek through Lebanon in 2011 replete with all of the hyperbole you might expect from a seasoned travel […]
Old Works. Great Memories.
Back in 1992, a young Media Guy teamed with an old art critic to dive into some amazing work at the Australian National Gallery. Here’s an excerpt from one of my favorite passages and works. René MAGRITTE (Belgium 1898-1967) Les Amants [The lovers] 1928 oil on canvas 54.0 (h) x 73.0 (w) cm Frame 75.6 […]
Backstage at the Oscars: 2013
The critics love to hate the Academy Award telecast, but nothing moves the needle like the Super Bowl and the Oscars. This year advertisers on the ABC telecast paid the highest commercial prices since 2008. ABC, which is part of the Walt Disney Company media conglomerate, charged somewhere between $1.65 million and $1.8 million for […]
Travel Companions
Ok. The Media Guy has always hated two things about press junkets: Assembling press kits (yes, we still use paper kits because the media reads on paper and takes copy points from the flash drive) and, Packing a suitcase (I roll with a 22” Hartmann beauty and it can still be a struggle.) I mean, […]
MGS Chat: Ray Lewis
Ray Lewis, the 37-year-old Baltimore Ravens linebacker plans to retire after the season, but before his own clash of the titans with New England in the AFC championship game he had a few minutes for the Media Guy… MEDIA GUY: What do you most remembered for at the end of his career? RAY LEWIS: I […]
Valentine’s Day Can Ruin You…
Geez! Valentine’s day is less than a month away and you know what that means, right? Yep, the office is going to be a mess. Cupid’s arrow hits the mark and people go la-la. Cupid misses and depression sets in. For some in the Media Guy’s office, it could take months before the wounds heal. […]
They Didn’t Make the Cut…
“He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ” I love this quote quite frankly; it says it all. I hope this past weekend, I didn’t make a mistake with my forthcoming book. In the weeks after two wildly lucky winners in Missouri and Arizona divvied up the $600 million Powerball jackpot, I found myself […]
I Killed Sheherazade
I hope you’ve had a chance to page through a copy of I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman (from Lawrence Hill Books available at amazon.com) by award-winning Lebanese journalist Joumana Haddad. Dubbed “the Carrie Bradshaw of Beirut” by the Sunday Telegraph, she’s leading the charge with a spirited call to Arab women […]
