{"id":365,"date":"2009-11-04T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T10:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=365"},"modified":"2009-11-04T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T10:06:18","slug":"blooper_reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/11\/blooper_reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooper reel"},"content":{"rendered":"

My client Eric Owens<\/a> had a recital at Carnegie Hall<\/a>‘s Weill Hall last spring. Typically, I was doing seventeen things at once, two of which were working with Carnegie’s Creative Services department on Eric’s program and e mailing Hilary Hahn<\/a> a photo of a dog wearing a yarmulke. No particular reason for that latter task.<\/p>\n

The person I was working with at Carnegie asked which photo of Eric I wanted in the program. I cut and pasted the URL of a recent photo of Eric from the IMG Artists website and sent it off to him. I received an e mail back saying, “Attached is what we have on file for Mr. Owens. I’m not sure you want us to use the photo below.”<\/p>\n

That would be…of a dog wearing a yarmulke. <\/p>\n

Amanda the Consummate Professional strikes again! What PR prowess. What charm, what grace!<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I e mailed someone at Decca a response that was meant for someone else at Decca. Something like, “I just don’t think that naked statue photo screams ‘party'” as a reply to an iTunes question. On the ball yet again! My own incompetence made me think: a while back, we collected a list on Life’s a Pitch<\/i> of the things that annoy journalists about publicists (here<\/a>) and that annoy publicists about journalists (here<\/a>). Now I want a list of everyone’s biggest PR bloopers. Come on…publicity is funny!<\/p>\n

Comment anonymously or as your proud, mistake-making self here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My client Eric Owens had a recital at Carnegie Hall‘s Weill Hall last spring. Typically, I was doing seventeen things at once, two of which were working with Carnegie’s Creative Services department on Eric’s program and e mailing Hilary Hahn a photo of a dog wearing a yarmulke. No particular reason for that latter task. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}