Sentences with phrase «huckster behind»

Lori Prokop, the vanity press huckster behind Book Millionaire, claims that the show isn't dead yet... despite the efforts of a secret publishing industry conspiracy to bring her down: «Book Millionaire continues to move forward, not at the pace we originally intended, but with the same excitement, focus and passion for helping others.

I draw the comparison because Moyle, like Hughes (and unlike the hucksters behind the countless failed high - school romps of the past two decades), has empathy for his young characters — though Hughes was less reluctant to hold them accountable for their angst, marking Moyle as the bigger suck - up — and because he leans towards having an aesthetic, especially in Empire Records, that favours, as Hughes's does, quarantining close - ups and medium close - ups.