Sentences with phrase «junketing from»

Buhari's foreign trips bleeding Nigeria's economy; won't solve Nigeria's problems — Fayose Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said that President Muhammadu Buhari foreign trips abroad are counter - productive noting that he should stay at home and govern the country instead of junketing from one country to the other.

They enjoyed a whirlwind junket from interested clubs, an itinerary that included private jet service, four - star dinners, a tour of the CNN studios and tickets to an NBA game.

vs. Nick Denton (Gawker / Wonkette) dustup «over whether it was proper to accept a free press junket from Siemens to the CeBIT conference in Germany.

Not exact matches

Whether it's multi-million dollar advertising campaigns in the United States, gold - plated junkets to foreign energy markets, or muzzling opposition from -LSB-...]

Those are the two most meaningful takeaways from Monday's brief press junket with New England owner Robert Kraft.

My call for Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy, to spend less time manufacturing political spats with the SNP, by going on overseas junkets, and more time fighting for the people of East Renfrewshire seems, somehow, to have been cut from the story.

Travis Allen, R - Huntington Beach, who has dodged questions from the California press about his eight - day junket to China, is speaking with state - owned media in the People's Republic of China about his trip.

It is loaded with authoritative analyses of biospheric damage, some of them compiled from the senator's own junkets to inspect the devastation of the rainforests, the game parks of Africa and the ozone hole above Antarctica.

If you're Mindy Kaling, you deal with them by finding the humor in weird and awkward moments — like having to take a time - out from a press junket to wrangle a breast pump.

Shoehorned into a coach seat over the wing of one of those airplanes that seats about a hundred people, I quaffed my Pepsi with the quick rabbit - swallows necessitated by the tiny plastic cup they offer to the undesirables, and thought about the wisdom of Focus Features deciding to fly me from Denver to The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills to attend the junket for Charlie Kaufman's bittersweet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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Junkets / Conduct: The IFJA has no specific policy prohibiting members from accepting junket trips from studios.

Lady Bird saw its premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival (September 8th 2017) we have added photos from the premiere and press junket.

And McDermott even dressed and acted as his character for a recent press junket, in which he promoted the show by «flying» a plane filled with reporters from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

Instead of audio commentary, Anderson offers a «diary» that follows his ambitious, three - hour drama from preproduction to the Berlin Film Festival and the lunacy of a press junket.

An eight - minute behind - the - scenes featurette is the standard press junket glad - handing intercut with scenes from the picture.

A twenty - minute film proudly advertised as «An Exclusive Documentary» is a hastily patched together montage of extended clips from the movie maladroitly edited together with press - junket interviews.

At a recent junket for Underworld: Awakening 3D (interviews posting soon) they asked me to take a break from chatting with...

Yeah, I heard nice things about it from the press screening last week — which I unfortunately had to miss for the Fox junket.

Imagine how much Onah could have used the opportunities that come with a traditional theatrical release (or even a half - hearted Netflix release)-- including press junkets, advance screenings, audience - awareness campaigns from clips and trailers, etc. — to showcase his filmmaking story, like every director of every studio movie has ever had the privilege of doing, whether their film was good or not.

Richard Von Busack (San Jose Metro) was cut from Universal's junket list for «not putting Chevy Chase on our cover for Fletch II.»

But because she had recently violated a section of the law that forbids lobbyists from sending people on expensive junkets (something about paying a congressman to go on an «educational» tour of Indonesia regarding taxes on palm oil), she is called up for a Senate hearing led by Senator Ron M. Sperling (John Lithgow), who is in the pocket of the gun people and seeks to send her to a federal penitentiary.

The bulk of the extras are on disc two: extensive making - of documentaries covering everything from story conception and design to various technical minutiae; concept and promotional art galleries; trailers and forced, would - be comic junket «interviews» with gushy TV entertainment reporters; profiles on the Incredibles and many other supers; a droll video «essay» by the voice of Violet, Sarah Vowell; a faux blooper reel (an exercise that has long exhausted its novelty); and a large assortment of deleted scenes.

The disc also includes a valuable feature that I've only seen on Paramount DVDs, which is a collection of cast and crew interviews taken from the film's press junket.

At the film's press junket, James Corden, Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie and Elizabeth Debicki spoke at a conference about finding their character's voice, working opposite CGI characters that weren't really there, Flopsy's lisp, the similarities between General Hux (in the Star Wars films) and Mr. McGregor, the mystery of why these rabbits where jackets, and what they would like children to learn from seeing this movie.

COME FIND ME ON YOU TUBE I officially started a You Tube channel where I have posted a bunch of my segments from Twin Cities Live as well as my celeb interviews (Michael Keaton, Hong Chau, Taylor Kitsch, etc...) from press junkets.

By Roger Friedman Ridley Scott's «Robin Hood» junket is moving from London to Los Angeles thanks to the Iceland volcano.

These interviews come from a press junket with Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson and Ian McShane.

Here are the videos from the American Assassin press junket.

, a compilation of amateur B - roll interspersed with junket soundbites from writer - director Noah Baumbach.

There are no red carpets, no big press junkets and no stressed - out big city trappings to distract from the experience.

While not completely culled from electronic press kit material — some press junket interview segments are also thrown in — the DVD's «Spotlight on Location» featurette is still the usual ten - minute exercise in back - patting.

To assess the company's success in Pacifica, whatever anyone cares to call it, FCA flew dozens of testing teams from the media — moms and their families, dads and their families (including mine), and various random groupings of friends and relations — all the way to Newport Beach, California, for a three - day vacation junket spent mostly in them.

During the housing bubble, consumers used home equity borrowing to pay for everything from boats and gambling junkets (clearly bad) to cars and kitchen renovations (not so bad).

A Reedy Creek fire dispatcher was charged Tuesday with embezzling $ 76,000 from the Osceola County Humane Society.Paul Magee, a former Osceola County Courthouse guard, was arrested after Humane Society members reported finding 42 unauthorized checks that Magee wrote while serving as the organization's treasurer, Osceola sheriff's Lt. July Rivers said.Magee, 32, of St. Cloud, told deputies that he spent the missing money on gambling junkets and computer equipment, Rivers said.

I'd rather see press junkets where the local limo business makes $ from carting the writers around & condo owners getting rental fees for housing them than seeing the $ spent on tv ads that no one pays attention to.

Despite the common knowledge from within the industry that most PlayStation 4 games support Remote Play (barring titles require any peripheral outside of the DualShock 4, including the PlayStation Camera), most news junkets have flooded their content with confirmations and demonstrations.

Kojima has been on a press junket in the US for the past few days, so presumably we can expect plenty of new MGS 5 news sometime over the next few days as coverage emerges from under embargo (and out of dictaphones).

Since the theme of that Heartland junk science junket is «Restoring the Scientific Method,» perhaps the attendees will query Dr. Soon about the ethics of accepting a million dollars from polluter interests while claiming that climate change is nothing to worry about.

And don't get me started on how much disposable income I had to spend on my fashion weakness: shoes... oh, and Marc by Marc Jacobs shirts and jackets from the US sale racks... preferably visited in Waikiki or Los Angeles on travel «junkets».