Manager and producer Jason Weinberg did what few have ever done — closed down The Palm restaurant in East Hampton, N.Y., over a holiday weekend. The occasion was his 50th birthday, prompting a heavy list of longtime friends and clients to gather for a steak and lobster feast and the lawn to be strewn with candles, spelling out 49 + 1.
Heartfelt speeches were delivered by Naomi Watts, Uma Thurman and Weinberg’s husband Merritt Johnson, while Jerry Lewis and Weinberg’s first boss, pr man Bobby Zarem, sent video tributes.
Hamilton Tony winner Renee Elise Goldsberry belted out “Happy Birthday’’ to...
Heartfelt speeches were delivered by Naomi Watts, Uma Thurman and Weinberg’s husband Merritt Johnson, while Jerry Lewis and Weinberg’s first boss, pr man Bobby Zarem, sent video tributes.
Hamilton Tony winner Renee Elise Goldsberry belted out “Happy Birthday’’ to...
- 2/21/2017
- by Beth Landman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A version of this story first appeared in the April 24 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. The annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Savannah, Ga., is a massive spectacle of the sort that Bobby Zarem is famous for masterminding: exciting, well-organized and highly covered by the media. Some might be surprised to find the 78-year-old pioneering publicist among the throngs gathered to take it in — after all, he remains closely associated with New York, where he lived for more than 50 years while crafting some of the most ingenious PR campaigns in history, including "I Love
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- 4/8/2015
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the early seventies, I was invited to dinner to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger by Bobby Zarem, N.Y.'s powerful publicist. We met at Manhattan's Elaine's Restaurant. Schwarzenegger was polite, not at all flirtatious and a gentleman as he looked around the restaurant and took in the powerbrokers one at a time as I did. Zarem was prepping Schwarzenegger's assault on America and was instrumental in Schwarzenegger's success. But it was Schwarzenegger who had the vision to hire a publicist to navigate him to superstardom. In an interview with Fortune magazine in 2004, Schwarzenegger...
- 5/18/2011
- The Wrap
1. Candace Bushnell and Jay McInerney. 2. Alexis Bledel and Christian Siriano. 3. Dave and James Franco. From PatrickMcMullan.com. Vf Daily’s picks for the top three parties around the globe last night. Party Like It’s 1984 What: Party for Jay McInerney’s new book, How It Ended. Where: Cru restaurant, New York City. Who: Jay McInerney, with children Maise and Barrett McInerney, wife Anne Hearst McInerney, and stepdaughter Amanda Hearst. Also, Carmen Dell’Orefice, Rudy Giuliani, Judith Giuliani, J. T. Theodoracopulos, A. M. Homes, Brad Gooch, Andrew Saffir, Bettina Zilkha, Candace Bushnell, Charles Askegard, Morgan Entrekin, Dirk Wittenborn, Gillian Hearst-Simonds, Helen Lee Schifter, James Lipton, Bobby Zarem, Michael Gross, Nicole Miller, Terry McDonell, André Balazs, Sharon Bush, Richard Johnson, Binky Urban, and Ken Auletta. Why: Because it’s been 25 years since Bright Lights, Big City was published and we were eagerly waiting for McInerney’s latest. Talking Point: The equal measures of literarti and glitterati present.
- 4/7/2009
- Vanity Fair
Breathless reports have swooped around the web about John Anderson, film critic for Variety, pounding the legendary publicist Jeff Dowd (aka The Dude) at Sundance. There was a jab to the chest! One to the shoulder! Dowd kept his guard down! A punch to the head! Anderson turned and walked away, then came back and threw his best right to the jaw!
I have this blow-by-blow account from The Dude himself. Park City Police Officer Bob deBotelho responded after a call from the Yarrow restaurant, collected eyewitness testimony, and offered to arrest Anderson. But the Dude declined to press changes, magnanimously explaining his forbearance:
"I like John, I think he is a good journalist and critic and a person who is a dad and someone who cares about our planet and future. And I don't think he is a danger to society or would inflict violence on women."
Why didn't The Dude,...
I have this blow-by-blow account from The Dude himself. Park City Police Officer Bob deBotelho responded after a call from the Yarrow restaurant, collected eyewitness testimony, and offered to arrest Anderson. But the Dude declined to press changes, magnanimously explaining his forbearance:
"I like John, I think he is a good journalist and critic and a person who is a dad and someone who cares about our planet and future. And I don't think he is a danger to society or would inflict violence on women."
Why didn't The Dude,...
- 1/28/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
James Franco was an unlikely guest at the lunch for Adam Davies' brilliant new novel, "Mine All Mine." But it turns out Franco dabbles in writing himself. The handsome "Pineapple Express" star [Review: Here] is moving to New York to pursue his Mfa in fiction writing, though he coyly avoided giving Page Six an answer as to where exactly he plans continue his education. (He's said to have applied to Columbia, Brooklyn College and Nyu.) He's shaking the right hands while he's here, though. Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter stopped at Michael's and met Franco,...
- 8/6/2008
- NYPost.com
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