Today's PR Genius
In a message dated 3/8/06 9:39:52 PM, jeanette@popculturepr.com, who's hawking some client with tanning salons, emails:
With award-show season in the midst of Winter and the Academy Awards having just finished, I'm sure your Creators Syndicate readers wonder, "How do celebrities keep their great tans?"
I respond:
Jeannette, are you high?Clearly, you've never read my column or my blog.
Go to my blog and search Anthelios.
Only a moron would go to a tanning salon.
Luckily, there are a lot of morons out there, so I'll be one of the few who hits 50 and doesn't look like an Hermes handbag.
And PS, Beyonce's darling cousin used to work for me, and she had Beyoncé's same "sun-kissed look" you mention later in the press release...hmmm...perhaps because she's (light-skinned) black!
Yeah, I get an awful lot of lame emails from Jeanette too, all of them completely irrelevant. I don't ever have time to reply to her, though. One of the most off-the-mark emails I ever got was for someone touting breast milk shields to prevent "those embarrassing wet spots" for the nursing mother. Now those things are indeed pretty handy if you're nursing, but why someone who covers news of the film industry would need to tell her readers about them is beyond me. That one, I couldn't resist responding to.
Pat Saperstein at March 9, 2006 12:12 PM
Oh Amy, you make me laugh so hard. I never get enough of these Vengerella stories. I hate PR people who just blank e-mail anyone just because they can. I classify their stuff as "spam", as it should be.
Emmanuelle at March 9, 2006 1:43 PM
Hi Amy,
I bet you get a lot of visitors asking you where you get the Anthelios! Your information is acurate too. It is illegal to sell it in the US, from the US, but it is ok to purchase it outside!
We were the first ones to make it available to US customers, from Canada. We had an article published last June in the New York Times which appeared on the front page! "Psst! This stuff keeps you young, but it's illegal".
If you need anymore of the Anthelios Mexoryl, click for a visit! http://www.feelbest.com.
Looking forward to seeing you,
Sharon
Sharon at April 3, 2006 12:56 PM
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