Posts Tagged ‘Howard Bragman’

On the latest edition of the YouTube interview show GWISSUES, Earvin Johnson III (a.k.a. EJ) says that the person shown on TMZ TV walking with him hand-in-hand on the Sunset Strip was not actually a boyfriend but rather his best friend. Nevertheless, the April 2 report led to Magic’s son being outed in the media and EJ’s dad doing a subsequent interview with Harvey Levin.

Johnson tells host Howard Bragman that in addition to his current focus on an event planning and hospitality degree at NYU, he has a personal passion for media and journalism. One day, he tells the former uber-publicist, he hopes to host his own TV talk show.

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With Tony Ortega having (at least, temporarily) suspended his daily blog missives about the Church of Scientology, it’s up to other outlets to pick up the e-meter slack. This morning, that honor belongs to Hollywood Reporter contributor Dana Kennedy:

The headline is a reference to a quote from ex-Scientologist Marc Headley, who deems Tom Cruise’s relationship with embattled church leader David Miscagive to be “the most intense, expensive bromance in history.” Later on in the article, Headley’s wife Claire repeats some damaging claims that the “bromance” is built on a lie, and that behind Cruise’s back, Miscavige has repeatedly mocked the actor.

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The Q&A following last night’s Los Angeles Film Festival world premiere of Wish Me Away, a new documentary about the courageous decision by country singer Chely Wright to come out in 2010 as a lesbian, was really something. Audience members asking questions or making statements included former Family Ties star Meredith Baxter (“Has Random House editor Victoria Wilson seen the film yet?”) and singer Sophie B. Hawkins (“There’s art in every frame…”).

The superb movie, made by the award-winning female duo of Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf, relies on the narrative structure of a gradual countdown to Wright’s confessional May 2010 interviews on The Today Show, Oprah and in the pages of People magazine. Its behind-the-scenes look at a coordinated book and TV media campaign encompasses the aforementioned Wilson as well as celebrity publicist Howard Bragman and spiritual advisor Reverend Welton Gaddy.

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Maybe it was better when Charlie Sheen was partying with porn stars and a “briefcase full of cocaine.”

In a truly astonishing series of events today, the highest paid television actor in Hollywood:

1) Trashed show creator Chuck Lorre on the Alex Jones Show;

2) Caused CBS to cancel production of the eight remaining episodes of this year’s season of Two and a Half Men;

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Ed McMahon died early today at a hospital in Westwood. He was 86. From the LA Times:

He passed away shortly after midnight, [publicist Howard] Bragman said. Bragman did not give a cause of death, saying only that McMahon had been suffering from many health problems over the last few months.

A source close to McMahon says he had bone cancer and had been hospitalized for several weeks. That person who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to release the information.

The former “Tonight Show” sidekick was 86.

Braggman said McMahon’s wife Pam and other loved ones were present when he passed away.