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Hollywood Ruvs Joe Lockhart

By Patrick on November 29, 2007 2:50 PM

From Nikki Finke:

    Here’s an interesting writers strike PR nugget I just found out: Turns out both sides, first the Hollywood moguls and then the WGA, wanted to hire former Clinton White House press secretary Joe Lockhart as their official mouthpiece. Lockhart, now founding partner and president of the consulting firm Glover Park Group specializing in advocacy advertising, gained fame for flacking the Clinton impeachment trials. The mutual feeling was, if he can handle that, then a Hollywood strike will be a cakewalk.

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