Sentences with phrase «of a publicity stunt for»

That's just what happened in Adelaide as part of a publicity stunt for the Adelaide Motorsports Festival.

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For years he'd been dreaming up publicity stunts — such as offering Amanda Knox a large sum to appear in an adult film — and then enticing the likes of Gawker or TMZ to treat that stunt offer like news.

I first heard of them from that publicity stunt, when I paid $ 20 for shipping from Vietnam and $ 0 for a pair of classic high - rise leggings while a senior in college.

The Ten Commandments were plastered as a publicity stunt for the movie the Ten Commandments by the P. T. Barnum of Hollywood, Cecil B. Demile.

But Neuhaus calls the faculty protest «smarminess» and goes on to denigrate the «national prominence» of Calvin College, as if it is some rude, liberal Podunk institution looking for cheap media attention with a publicity stunt.

Hey it may not have been the end of the world, but I give credit to Mr. Camping for pulling off a a pretty good publicity stunt (whether he beleived it was the end of the world or not).

Yesterday I posted a news item about Sarah Palin's publicity stunt of bringing 200 sugar cookies to a Pennsylvania school to protest the proposed regulations in that state which will limit sweets in school for classroom and holiday parties.

If you know some definition of «publicity stunt» for which what she did wouldn't qualify, we're all interested to hear it.

Howie Hawkins called Governor Cuomo's plastic bag ban proposal yesterday a publicity stunt designed to divert attention from thousands of climate change activists at the Capitol on Monday saying it was time for Cuomo to Walk the Talk.

Amy Klein, 35, of Brooklyn's South Slope neighborhood, called deBlasio's pledge «a publicity stunt» while waiting for a train inside the City Hall station.

This is understandable, because the episode exposes him as a man who can't even stage a four - subway - stop publicity stunt — even as he runs for a second term as chief executive of the world's greatest city.

Hook, so do you mean to tell us that this was all a publicity stunt to continue your union bashing??? Get your resume ready, Cuomo actually has a brain and can think for himself, the whole lot of you will be walking out the door with Dave when he «retires» at the end of the year (if not sooner).

But it turns out Kid Rock was joking all along, part of an elaborate publicity stunt that fooled Pataki as well as President Donald Trump's adviser, Stephen Bannon, both of whom voiced support for the rapper's «campaign.»

But his publicity stunt has a half - life way beyond even what he could imagine — the Roadster should continue to orbit through the solar system, perhaps slightly battered by micrometeorites, for a few tens of millions of years.

, Eli Roth to Produce Horror Movie Based on Fake Trailer, Oscar Shortlist for Best Documentary Feature Announced 19:50 — Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 52:40 — Trailer Trash: Green Lantern, The Green Hornet, Your Highness, Cowboys & Aliens 1:06:36 — Other Stuff We Watched: Catfish, We Live in Public, Kisses, The Losers, Conan, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, The Night of the Hunter, Toy Story 3, The Larry Sanders Show 1:34:00 — Junk Mail: Quidditch World Cup, Movies Overshadowed by Publicity Stunts, My Winnipeg, Movies Too Sad to Watch a Second Time, Spielberg and Tintin, Where is Chian?

The sight of legendary stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong plotting action sequences gave me a pang of nostalgia for the precious ingredients that were thrown out with the bathwater when Daniel Craig stepped into James Bond's shoes, and I liked all the business with publicity leaks dogging the filmmakers.

They were the last line of enticement — and sometimes the first — alongside carpet - bombing consumers with coming attractions, movie posters, marquees, publicity stunts, movie program books, and newspaper advertisements for their newest big - screen sensation.

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.

They were the last line of enticement — and sometimes the first — alongside carpet - bombing consumers with coming attractions, movie posters, marquees, publicity stunts, movie program books, and newspaper advertisements for their newest big - screen sensation.With no entertainment websites or blogs available to tease audiences with stills from their films, lobby cards served that purpose for the studio publicity machine.

Even though AMPAS's decision last year to widen the Best Picture field to 10 nominees was an obvious publicity stunt, a means of boosting the Oscar telecast's ratings share by ensuring that more than one box office cash cow would compete for Oscar's top prize, we were optimistic that a few legitimately off - the - beaten - path treasures would somehow manage to enter the race.

T - Mobile broke two Guinness World Records with the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus as part of its publicity stunt meant to draw attention to the wireless carrier's release of Samsung's latest Android flagships which is scheduled for tomorrow.

Closely monitored by an all - seeing Mission Control, this New Eden is the brainchild of ecovisionary Jeremiah Reed, aka G.C. - «God the Creator» - for whom the project is both an adventure in scientific discovery and a momentous publicity stunt.

Richard Branson's publicity stunts may not be to everyone's taste, but his positive attitude and passion for aviation has established him as one of the industry's most legendary personalities.

There's no struggling to produce units as some would suggest ms are suffering with and there is no fake supply shortage to boost demand / hype as certain manufacturers have done in the past to hit the news headlines as it's a very different world now and having more units out there in the hands of gamers will do more for publicity than any of those old tired stunts could.

Famously, before the release of Metal Gear Solid 4, Kojima collaborated with Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed team in a few publicity stunts and the like — but this all actually came about from Kojima approaching the studio fronted by Jade Raymond for advice.

Here's your chance to strike a blow for REAL painting and win as much as the Turner Prize winner HERE WE are again, victims of the hugely successful publicity stunt that takes place annually in the name of «progressive» art.

And we do have to say that even if it is a bit of a publicity stunt, getting unused electronics turned in for recycling is more important than ever, considering the increasing scarcity of resources used to make the devices.

The reason for the blatantly illegal hack was because the rather hubristic CEO of HGBary Federal, Aaron Barr, boasted, in the Financial Times, more as a publicity stunt than anything else, that he «knew» the identities of some alleged Anonymous «Chiefs» (there, apparently, aren't any and the alleged «identities» he found ended up being quite innocent people!).

Probably this takedown will generate even more publicity for Blakes than the original stunt did, most of it relatively positive, so even if it's an unforeseen consequence, it will probably end up being a good one.

T - Mobile broke two Guinness World Records with the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus as part of its publicity stunt meant to draw attention to the wireless carrier's release of Samsung's latest Android flagships which is scheduled for tomorrow.