Although there were rumors that Thorpe received no money, he was paid $ 15, 000 by Warner Bros. plus a $ 2, 500 donation toward an annuity for him by the studio head of publicity.

He lamented, both in the book and during the publicity tour that followed, that space flight research was concentrated in the area of rocketry, and that little attention had been paid to other theoretical means of flight, which he felt might ultimately be more fruitful.

Greater attention was paid to afoxé groups in Carnaval because of the publicity that Gil had provided to them through his involvement ; the groups increased in size as well.

In 2000, he was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, paid for as part of the publicity for the live-action and animation film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

( The lists were actually restricted to works in English, but titles of the lists do not reflect this, and little attention was paid to the fact in publicity for the lists.

The term, coined in 2003, is generally not applied to events and performances organized for the purposes of politics ( such as protests ), commercial advertisement, publicity stunts that involve public relation firms, or paid professionals.

Professional sport is perhaps the only activity that defies the commercial norm whereby the media expect to be paid for carrying publicity for non-media organizations ; in professional sport they are expected to pay for the privilege of doing so.

Paramount promoted the unusual deal as part of the film's publicity, claiming that Sturges had received just one dollar ( in reality, he was paid $ 10 for legal reasons ) Sturges ' success quickly paved the way for similar deals for such writer-directors as Billy Wilder and John Huston.

Although Mr. Angélil eventually paid the woman $ 2 million to settle, Mr. Angélil never admitted to doing anything wrong, always maintaining the settlement was to avoid negative publicity that might upset his wife Celine.

He also oversaw a sponsorship scheme whereby the electrical goods company Toshiba paid to have their logo included on every piece of ICA publicity for three years, and in effect changed the name of the ICA to ICA / Toshiba.

Carrott was a keen runner and supported his local Knowle Fun Run through sponsorship and publicity, including 2001 where he paid out several thousand pounds based on the £ 10 per person who beat him to the finish line.

Compared to channels of paid advertising, publicity generates exposure which is relatively " free.

Since 2011, there has been a surge of concrete ceremonies, many of which have been paid by movie studios for publicity reasons.

In a publicity quote printed in Hardee's autobiography I Stole Freddie Mercury's Birthday Cake, Arthur Smith wrote that Hardee had " led his life as though for the perfect autobiography and now he has paid himself the compliment of writing it.

: The application for accreditation to the press galleries states that " members of the press shall not engage in lobbying or paid advertising, publicity, promotion, work for any individual, political party, corporation, organization, or agency of the Federal Government.

As she was in negotiations with CBS at the time for her new TV series, Garland paid rather than face the adverse publicity and potentially damaging the deal's prospects.

Despite the publicity stunt nature of the evening, the band received good reviews and it was considered that their challenge had paid off.

The controversy had helped gain publicity for Norton's work, although the whole affair had bankrupted Glover, and the book's binder Alan Cross, realising that he would never get paid, was instead given his pick of Norton's work, for which he chose Fohat.

Of course, we got more publicity than we could have paid for.

The resulting publicity campaign cost $ 200 000 and the Australian Government Department of Transport paid for it.

Before Venditti pulled the plug on his " Love Radio ", which eventually signed off the air, it attracted a lot of publicity in the Texas press concerning the rebirth of XERF as a real border blaster.

Her official reason was that she wanted to visit her mother but unofficially she intended to generate publicity for her husband's invention ( which had only been used on short test drives before ), which succeeded as the automobile took off greatly afterwards and the Benz's family business eventually evolved into the present day Mercedes-Benz company.

Thrown off of his game in part by the bad publicity, but also because of Baer's wild, brawling style and frequent fouls ( including backhand punches and rabbit punches ), Schmeling was positively thrashed after ten rounds before nearly 60, 000 onlookers at Yankee Stadium.

Eugene promises to help Aristide achieve these things on the condition that he stay out of his way and change his surname to avoid the possibility of bad publicity from Aristide's escapades rubbing off on Eugene and damaging his political chances.

The publication of Mesrine's book resulted in France passing a " Son of Sam law ", a law designed to keep criminals from profiting off the publicity of their crimes.

The school continued, on and off, into the late 1970s, and Beck and Child would continue to wear the school's badge on TV and in publicity photos for years to follow.

In common law jurisdictions, publicity rights fall into the realm of the tort of passing off.

This incident generated significant publicity for the show, even prompted the Prime Minister of Australia to call Network Ten to " do a bit of self-regulation and get this stupid program off the air.

Because this speech traditionally was off the record it received no publicity at the time.

Becker distrusted Nebel's showmanship and publicity seeking and by May 1931 had temporarily cut off official contact with him.

Nick Mathe, a neighbor, took an interest in her music, helped her get publicity photos with Bonnie Shiftman, then at A & M, in the off hours the three of them shot Miss Jones ' first pictures.

Many companies at that time came to see diversity training as a way to ward off negative legal action and publicity.

" When Rose responded to the slur in a letter to the competing paper, she sparked off a town feud that created such publicity that, by the time she arrived, everyone in town was eager to hear her.

Stevens entered the WWF in 1995 as Clarence Mason, a lawyer primarily introduced to play off the publicity lawyers had gotten during the ongoing O. J. Simpson trial.

Because of the technical difficulties and the slow start, compounded by a lack of advertising, SRE was forced to sign off the air during November 1966 in a cloud of adverse publicity surrounding its London based advertising sales arm which went out of business in a hailstorm of debt.

In " Now Pitching, Sam Malone " ( 1983 ), Sam has an affair with his publicity agent Lana ( Barbara Babcock ) to appear in commercials, but he breaks off this relationship and then loses his job.

After taking time off, he spent the early 1990s doing publicity interviews in Hollywood.

This performance passed off smoothly, with the resultant publicity helping the track to climb the singles chart.

There they were interrogated by Thai policemen in connection with the murders, but easily let off the hook because authorities feared that the negative publicity accompanying a murder trial would harm the country's tourist trade.

Although the company was still financially sound on paper, the negative publicity from Heaven's Gate badly shook the confidence of Transamerica management ; it caused them to sell off United Artists and withdraw from the entertainment industry altogether.

Fields helped make this film in New York City, taking time off from the Ziegfeld Follies, as publicity for the films pointed out.

Partly shot in Scotland, Deol broke his leg in an equestrian accident while filming and had to be flown to London to recuperate and had to call off several publicity shoots which documented his debut.

Some comic book writers have killed off characters to gather publicity or to create dramatic tension.

To limit the damage done to their investments, the film industry started to tip off Confidential of the more innocent gossip, which also made for good publicity for coming movies.

However, the Tucker company board of directors, unsure of his ability to overcome the technical and financial obstacles ahead, send Tucker off on a publicity campaign, and attempt to take complete control of the company.