{"id":133,"date":"2008-11-11T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=133"},"modified":"2008-11-11T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T15:56:12","slug":"psa_from_gawker_to_publicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/11\/psa_from_gawker_to_publicists\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA from Gawker to Publicists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jerry Portwood<\/a> is the editor of the New York Press<\/em>,
\nand he does a lot of theater reviews. Like lots of theater reviewers,
\nhe gets free tickets for plays from publicists. But last week, he was
\nabruptly disinvited and taken off the list for the play “The Sexual
\nNeuroses of Our Parents,” just before he was scheduled to attend. The
\nreason: the play’s publicist didn’t like a NY Press <\/em>story<\/a> that pointed out that the play’s publicists were marketing it by hyping
\nup the fact that Meryl Streep’s daughter is a cast member. Losing a
\npair of free tickets isn’t the world’s biggest tragedy, but it brings
\nup the interesting question: How are flacks supposed to handle bad
\npress? Answer: a lot better than this. Read on<\/i><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I mean, clearly you have to give the guy tickets and just complain to the friend you’re having drinks with that night about the story. That said, it does get a bit disrespectful, I think, when writers detail publicist’s approaches in their features or reviews. Publicists are given the task of selling tickets – a play title that includes the words “sexual”, “neuroses”, and “parents” helps with that, too – so obviously they are going to mention Meryl Streep in their pitches, unless clearly told not to. I think the pitch is a reflection on Mamie Gummer herself, not the publicist in question. If she didn’t want the publicist using her mother’s name to promote the play, she should have, or perhaps would have, said something. <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, we do not take away writers’ tickets because we are mad at them, no we do not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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