Uber has been shuttling wealthy festival goers to events such as Bonnaroo and Cannes Film Festival in helicopters
as publicity stunts for a while.
Even though he had never flown a balloon before, Branson saw it not
just as publicity stunt but an incredible personal challenge, and jumped headlong into the effort.
THE MAYOR (single camera; fka Untitled City Mayor Project) Picked up to series STUDIO: ABC Studios / Brownstone Productions / Bluegrass FanFare TEAM: Jeremy Bronson (w, ep), Daveed Diggs (ep), Jamie Tarses (ep), Scott Stuber (ep), Dylan Clark (ep), James Griffiths (d, ep) LOGLINE: When an outspoken, idealistic rapper runs for
office as a publicity stunt and actually gets elected, he surprises everyone (including himself) when he has a natural knack for the job and slowly transforms City Hall.
In 2011, Sony Pictures executives asked the Andalusian enclave if they could paint the town
blue as a publicity stunt for those famous blue cartoons, the Smurfs.
Wilbert «Uncle Robbie» Robinson, longtime manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers (then known as the Robins), once tried to catch a baseball dropped from an
airplane as a publicity stunt at spring training — the pilots ran out of baseballs, and dropped a Florida grapefruit instead.
For their part, many left - leaning progressives, both Catholics and Protestants, dismissed the
statement as a publicity stunt tied to conservative politics.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad staged the
collision as a publicity stunt to, in effect, put central Texas and the rail line on the map, and it worked.
Councilman Robert Cornegy asked New York State to declare a state emergency so that new boilers could be purchased and installed more quickly at Housing Authority properties; his request was dismissed by some of his
colleagues as a publicity stunt.
Some sources consider those
arrests as publicity stunts, and criticize Russian authorities for not taking more vigilant approach in regard to computer crimes.
In his best - known feature, his plan to get an athletic acquaintance to climb a department store
facade as a publicity stunt backfires, so Harold tackles the perilous ascent himself.
In Maps, Benjie thinks he's strangling the ghost of the little girl whom he'd visited in
hospital as a publicity stunt — only to find he's throttled the little boy he's been forced to act with.
Created by «The Mindy Project» alum Jeremy Bronson, «The Mayor» follows a rapper who runs for
mayor as a publicity stunt but wins on the strength of his passion for his home town alone.
Whether Spurlock is a charlatan who ate too many Big
Macs as a publicity stunt or an earnest documentarian concerned about the obesity epidemic in the U.S., the film is worth watching.
Several billion worth of 1980's and 90's box office muscle rolled down the Croisette in
tanks as a publicity stunt for «The Expendables 3» Sunday morning.
A simple - minded but good natured nickel and dime prize fighter is given a shot at the title by the overconfident
champion as a publicity stunt.
Jane Austen is Chosen to be the Face of the Ten - Pound Note: As much as I was amused and yet appalled at finding out there's a statue of Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy in London's Serpentine
Lake as a publicity stunt to promote a British drama television channel, I'm a little less disturbed to see that Austen will be on the ten - pound note approximately in 2017.
«This is corporate nonsense,» Gardega told The Post of «Fearless Girl,» saying it was put opposite artist Arturo Di Modica's famed
bull as a publicity stunt by a Boston - based financial firm.
Many in the corporate realm will view their
linkage as a publicity stunt and more artificial intelligence hype, but the implications of this technological collaboration are profound.
As the US refuses to pay a ransom they have no economic value and can be killed
just as a publicity stunt to get other to pay up.
I hope he isn't doing
this as a publicity stunt but I fear it is.
He did
it as a publicity stunt.
EFCC must have organized the «attack»
as a publicity stunt.
Devon Puglia, spokesman for the state Democratic Party, said the complaint has no merit and dismissed
it as a publicity stunt.
Dolin eventually confessed to shooting
himself as a publicity stunt for his book, a work in progress without a publisher.
This apparently stands for Dragonborn in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's dragon language - and
as a publicity stunt, this takes some beating.
Tata's now built a gold - encrusted Nano worth $ 4.6 million
as a publicity stunt.