Comments on: Best PR movies, shows and novels

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:27:50 +0000

Katie Paine suggested another one today: “The Truth” by Terry Pratchett

By: James Edlund

James Edlund — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:59:36 +0000

What about Jack Lemmon’s performance in the 1962 Blake Edwards film Days of Wine and Roses? An alcoholic PR man finally sees the light.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:44:24 +0000

Now we have to add “Hancock” to the list: http://techprgems.com/2008/06/hancock-superhero-gets-pr-makeover/

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:44:43 +0000

Another Facebook comment:

I agree on Wag the Dog being a great display of great PR. Not quite PR, but communications … Mad Med on AMC is wonderful.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:44:00 +0000

Oh, there’s an episode of Arrested Development that focuses on PR too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Relations_%28Arrested_Development_episode%29

By: Adam Zand

Adam Zand — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:44:00 +0000

Sarah,
Debi Mazar did make a glorious return in last week’s Entourage episode. Fit in a couple of PR stereotypes by setting up Vinny’s manager Eric for an interview with Variety that got him slammed for nepotism. She didn’t spend a lot of time on a briefing sheet for that one. There was also a funny comment about her need to take care of her baby at work.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:34:00 +0000

Another Facebook comment:

I guess I want to define PR to include books that instruct, inform, share beliefs, etc...In this regard, Norman Vincent Peale's books, all Bibles, how about Widipedia. I relate PR to folklore here, passing information through social means.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:03:00 +0000

And I caught two minutes of “Fletch” on TV yesterday (because it’s always on somewhere, like a Bizarro “Friends”) and remembered that Chevy plays an investigative journalist working undercover. Do the movies have to be good?

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:01:00 +0000

Couple more suggestions from my Facebook page. Since there should be some presumption of privacy on Facebook (I know, who am I fooling), I won't say who the suggestions are from:

I'd put Triumph of the Will on the top of the list.. And I think maybe Gandhi to.. depending on how liberal you wanna be with your conceptualizations Rashomon and Man Bits Dog might be interesting as well.

Most films, I think, show PR people as unscrupulous and shallow. Wag the Dog -- great movie -- shows PR people as manipulators of the truth. My favorite 'La Dolce Vita' has Marcello Mastroianni descend to depravity from tabloid journalist to publicist.

By: Reel Fanatic

Reel Fanatic — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:50:00 +0000

I can’t think of any in particular that you missed, but just wanted to second the love for “Ab Fab” .. Even if Edina is the ditziest PR woman of all time, the show is simply comedic perfection