TCA Terror! When Publicists Attack! -- Ed Martin Live at TCA

A female publicist who shall remain nameless namely because she didn39t offer me her card even though I was showing great interest in one of her clients actually went for poor Hal39s throat during an exchange at the Fancastcom party on the penthouse terrace of the Beverly Hilton HotelRead on folks and remember amp8230 you can39t make this shiz upHal and I were talking with Hartford Courant critic Roger Catlin when this publicist and her pretty young client walked by the client is also going to remain nameless here since the publicist did nothing to encourage coverage but I will note that she is a rising star in the Disney Cable universe In the conversation that followed the publicist mentioned how pissed off she was about the Hallmark Channel session at TCA last weekHer specific beef concerned comments by beloved Brady Bunch mom Florence Henderson who was at the Hallmark session to promote her upcoming Hallmark Original Movie Ladies of the House During her press conference Henderson was asked what she thought about her former TV children appearing in reality television programs Henderson39s face went rigid quotYou see this facequot she replied pointing at her grim visage Then she told us that while appearing on VH139s The Surreal Life Christopher Knight who played Peter Brady called her and asked her to come on the show and counsel him and his costar America39s Next Top Model Season 1 winner Adrianne Curry Henderson is a licensed hypnotherapist hence the callquotThey were trying to actually I think force Chris to get engagedquot Henderson told usShe agreed to meet with them but Chris and Adrianne quotdidn39t take my advice at allquot Henderson recalled quotAs you know they did get engaged and they did get married They asked if I would come and counsel them before the marriage and I said 39No but maybe I39ll come and counsel the divorce39quotIt was unclear if Henderson disproved of Curry the circumstances surrounding the engagement and marriage or all of that But she did say of Chris quotHe39s like my sonquotAnyway the woman who grabbed Hal by the throat one week later was Curry39s publicistAccording to said publicist Henderson39s comments were hurtful and have been tearing through the media for the last week though the fact that this quotstoryquot had quotlegsquot was news to those of us who have been entrenched at TCA tour for 10 days We39re concerned about Iran firing a nuclear missile gas prices banks in crisis and the war in Iraq and the fate of Katherine Heigl39s character on Grey39s Anatomy Christopher Knight39s marriage not so muchWhile the publicist was ranting Hal made the mistake of mentioning that he was the critic who had asked Henderson the fateful question He had been thinking of Maureen McCormick who played Marcia Brady and who would be attending TCA later in the week to talk about her new CMT series Outsider39s InnThis was more than the menacing publicist could handle She pounced grabbing Hal around the throat and shaking him If a man grabbed a woman he did not know in so rough a manner I believe there might be legal consequences Catlin who had reported the Henderson story at length in his blog at Courantcom tried to reason with the woman as did I but neither of us dared grab her and pull her off Hal because in Hollywood a man can end up behind bars or worse on TMZ for grabbing a woman he doesn39t know at an industry event Also it was clear this woman could open a can of whupass on all three of us without breaking a fingernailWhen the publicist finally released poor Hal she apologized Then she told us she had sent out a statement from Curry about Henderson39s remarks last week I asked why she didn39t send the statement to the 200 reporters who attended Henderson39s press conference The response Crickets Apparently Fancast got oneAnd then she was gone leaving all of us to wonder what the heck was thatClick the social buttons above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writers

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