PETER SHANKMAN

Happy Passover, to my Jewish publicist peeps… Headed to mom and dad’s shortly for the first Seder… I’m bringing Grape Juice for me (no drinking) and Gus’s Sour Pickles for mom and dad. Put them together, you’d think I was pregnant. With any luck, I won’t gain my usual five pounds of undigested matzoh in my intestinal track this year. BECAUSE I’M ONLY HAVING THE SMALLEST BITE KNOWN TO MAN. If my ancestors had as little Matzoh back in the day as I’m having over the next eight days, they could have left Egypt in like, 12 minutes. I leave you with the best quote about Passover I’ve ever heard: "Yeah, Matzoh is like eating air." Thanks to Gayle for [...]

So we all know about Mel Gibson getting busted for Drunk Driving. Two stories are emerging from a PR perspective out of this. The first, obviously, is the LA County Sheriff’s office, and the fact that they might have, according to TMZ, offered preferential treatment to Mr. Gibson, as well as going back and changing the police report to make it reflect less badly on Mr. Gibson. Lessons out of this are simple – Hollywood gets a different set of rules – that’ll never change, and that’s not so concerning. It’d be nice to see him lose his license, just like any other idiot who DWI’s, but it wouldn’t matter, since he probably has a fleet of limos and drivers [...]

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