Howard Bragman is one of Hollywood's smartest and most successful publicists and crisis counselors. (Among his clients, the Lewinsky family). His new book Where's My Fifteen Minutes? is fast, fun and insightful. The book lays out simple and sensible rules for any person or company that wants to shape (or reshape) its public perception.
He also explains how any celebrity can rejigger his image. Any celebrity? Watch the video below, then weigh in:
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Could O.J. Simpson become a Goodwill Ambassador?
Posted Jan 15th 2009 9:00AM by Mo Rocca
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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.
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16. "Mao-Tze Tung-Wagging good"
I catch you on Wait Wait all the time, and happened to flip on Iron Chef tonight, googled a picture, and just knew it was you by your voice... and sense of humor!
Thanks for being you!
Eric T. Tung at 12:58AM on Jan 16th 2009
17. Yeah, Irish bacon is good.
But, Colombian/Italian bacon is McDelectable!!!!
giftedgirl at 1:08AM on Jan 16th 2009
18. OJ must find peace with God, as must we.
JillJG at 9:07AM on Jan 16th 2009
19. He can start by using ihs knee-mail. Frequently.
JillJG at 9:40AM on Jan 16th 2009
20. rather aptly named is mister Bragman. has he been lying whoops, i mean spinning for such a stretch of time now that it's hard to stop. hundreds of millions incarcerated? try 3 million. o j disliked? try despised. and no, o j can never possibly live long enough for people to forget.
those not yet born will vilify his sub human behavior.
yes, Bragman. the name fits the occupation.
mac hattan
mac hattan at 4:31PM on Jan 16th 2009
21. Aw,
Guess I'll have to miss "The View" that day.
Just got off the phone with Joe Biden. He's going too.
Hank Kimball at 4:57PM on Jan 16th 2009
22.
Absolutely!O.J. would make a GREAT ambassador
under Obama! Great, wonderful people who
are just like O.J.......work well together!
tumbincreek at 7:25PM on Jan 16th 2009
23.
Oh absolutely! O.J. and Obama are the very
same kind of warm, affectionalte, wonderful
people. O.J. would make a GREAT ambassador
for Obama!
Steve at 7:28PM on Jan 16th 2009
24. Aw,
And I should care, because......?
JillJG at 7:36PM on Jan 16th 2009
25. "But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
Blessed Mother Theresa
JillJG at 12:47AM on Jan 17th 2009
26. Then to, we can see that Bernie Madoff will be in Charge of the US treasury!!!! Roman Polanski as Dean of an ALL GIRLS grade school!!!Hugh Hefner will run a HIGH CLASS WHORE HOUSE for Rich Politicians, like Switzer and Larry King{DEAD}!!!! Put Jerry Springer and Maury Povitch in charge of Morality in the Entertainment industry!!!!
Raffaele Zuccaro at 4:47PM on Jan 21st 2009
27. OJ could be a knife thrower with practice, he can cut a throat at 20 paces!
mike at 9:12AM on Jan 24th 2009