Julian F. Myers, a show business publicist who helped shape the images of stars including Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, died Saturday of congestive heart failure. He was 97. The passing of the Myers, a fixture on the Hollywood publicity scene for more than five decades, was confirmed to TheWrap by his family on Sunday. In recent years, he had become one of the nation’s top senior runners, and finished first in his age group — over 95 — in a Utah marathon just two months ago. Myers was a publicist at Fox Studios from 1948 to 1961 and...
- 12/23/2013
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
By Julian Myers
An Open Letter to Mt Carney From Julian Myers, “Hollywood's longest active movie publicist”:
Welcome to “Hollywood.”
We understand you have new methods of winning customers, and we could use them. Our costs of film production are high, and fresh ways of raising revenues will enable us to keep investing ambitiously.
Because the budgets on most of our pictures are in the tens of millions they must “open” on their first weekends or they are regarded as failures. To prevent this from happening you would be wise to spend 90 percent of your...
An Open Letter to Mt Carney From Julian Myers, “Hollywood's longest active movie publicist”:
Welcome to “Hollywood.”
We understand you have new methods of winning customers, and we could use them. Our costs of film production are high, and fresh ways of raising revenues will enable us to keep investing ambitiously.
Because the budgets on most of our pictures are in the tens of millions they must “open” on their first weekends or they are regarded as failures. To prevent this from happening you would be wise to spend 90 percent of your...
- 5/6/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
By Julian Myers
If the Hollywood Reporter as I have known it for more than 60 years is gone, it must be noted that three of its recent editorial heads were among the finest in its history. In fact, they are among the finest in the annals of Hollywood coverage. Yes, I'm alluding to Elizabeth Guider, Alex Ben Block and Robert Dowling.
Other top-notch Hollywood Reporter heads included Tichi Wilkerson, Frank Barron, Don Gillette, Jim Powers, Howard Burns and Hal Bates. Its memorable daily columnists included Mike Connolly, Herb Stein, Jim Henagan, Robert Osborne and Hank Grant.
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If the Hollywood Reporter as I have known it for more than 60 years is gone, it must be noted that three of its recent editorial heads were among the finest in its history. In fact, they are among the finest in the annals of Hollywood coverage. Yes, I'm alluding to Elizabeth Guider, Alex Ben Block and Robert Dowling.
Other top-notch Hollywood Reporter heads included Tichi Wilkerson, Frank Barron, Don Gillette, Jim Powers, Howard Burns and Hal Bates. Its memorable daily columnists included Mike Connolly, Herb Stein, Jim Henagan, Robert Osborne and Hank Grant.
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- 11/13/2009
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
By Julian Myers
Last time I visited Frank, at the Motion Picture Country Home a few months ago, he did not recognize me or, at least, did not seem to.
I had known Frank for about 40 years through his many years at Warner Bros., and during the decades when he was the chief personal publicist for Bob Hope, who also maintained several other publicists on his staff to do who-knows-what.
Frank's wife, Pat Harris, died about 25 years ago. She also worked in the industry and his sister-in-law, Radie Harris, was the Hollywood columnist for a New York City publication. We all gave ...
Last time I visited Frank, at the Motion Picture Country Home a few months ago, he did not recognize me or, at least, did not seem to.
I had known Frank for about 40 years through his many years at Warner Bros., and during the decades when he was the chief personal publicist for Bob Hope, who also maintained several other publicists on his staff to do who-knows-what.
Frank's wife, Pat Harris, died about 25 years ago. She also worked in the industry and his sister-in-law, Radie Harris, was the Hollywood columnist for a New York City publication. We all gave ...
- 9/25/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Julian Myers
Dear Army is gone, coincidentally and appropriately, just as the Century of Hollywood has ended. That was Army's Century, where he told us mostly good things about good people. He made almost every weekday better for us because we learned something constructive and heartening. When I met Army around 1949, he was "leg man" for columnist Harrison Carroll at the Los Angeles Herald-Express, coming out to 20th Century-Fox on Fridays to visit the sets, get news from the stars, and make the lives of us publicists better. I visited him in his $12,000 Sherman Oaks ...
Dear Army is gone, coincidentally and appropriately, just as the Century of Hollywood has ended. That was Army's Century, where he told us mostly good things about good people. He made almost every weekday better for us because we learned something constructive and heartening. When I met Army around 1949, he was "leg man" for columnist Harrison Carroll at the Los Angeles Herald-Express, coming out to 20th Century-Fox on Fridays to visit the sets, get news from the stars, and make the lives of us publicists better. I visited him in his $12,000 Sherman Oaks ...
- 9/9/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
By Julian Myers
With all the conflicts in California today, Hollywood doesn't need another one. Two groups, both dedicated to helping others, are warring over the closing of the Motion Picture & Television Fund's long-term care center .
This is not necessary. Our industry has found out that sometimes a co-production turns out well.
There's a way to permanently solve the situation confronting some of the residents at the home -- where the motto printed on the name sign in front of the home reads "We take care of our own." It is in the spirit of th...
With all the conflicts in California today, Hollywood doesn't need another one. Two groups, both dedicated to helping others, are warring over the closing of the Motion Picture & Television Fund's long-term care center .
This is not necessary. Our industry has found out that sometimes a co-production turns out well.
There's a way to permanently solve the situation confronting some of the residents at the home -- where the motto printed on the name sign in front of the home reads "We take care of our own." It is in the spirit of th...
- 8/31/2009
- by Amy Kaufman
- The Wrap
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