World Trade Center Press Junket ‘Whore’ Critic Banned By Paramount
My brother over at FishBowlNY sent me this entertaining story:
A freelance film critic who wrote about a Seattle press junket for Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center says Paramount Pictures, the studio behind WTC, has banned him from future press junkets and is demanding he remove the 5,000-plus-word piece, “I Was a Junket Whore,” from his Web site.
The critic, Eric D. Snider, was flown by Paramount to Seattle from Portland, Ore., and put up in a luxury hotel in lieu of the staff film critic at a newspaper Snider contributes to because the newspaper, “like almost all reputable news outlets, has rules against such things.” He then did the unforgivable in the world film-criticdom – he wrote about it
Read all the dirty deets here.
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